Beehive to BYU film animation students for bringing the university its fifth "student Emmy" for an animated short. Thomas Leavitt and his fellow students created "Las Piñatas," a computer-generated film about two piñatas trying to avoid a flock of children. The film is one of the finalists in the College Television Awards, which BYU has won four times previously. In case anyone thinks computer animation is simpler than the old-school ink drawings and acetate cels, consider this: Forty-five students spent 18 months creating the 4 1/2-minute film. BYU student Russell Lloyd said he spent 200 hours just working on the facial expressions of one of the piñatas.

Buffalo Chip to Gov. Huntsman for feeding the bears. When you feed the bears, they just keep coming back for more. We're talking about the governor's signing of House Concurrent Resolution 3, which calls on Congress to find a way to block Internet pornography. We're as opposed to porn as anybody, but we're not for the passage of unconstitutional laws. Bad schemes just waste a lot of time and taxpayer money as they work their way to defeat in the courts. Internet pornography is an international phenomenon, so attempts to curtail it through U.S. law are about as effective as King Canute commanding the tide. We've already seen several well-meaning but misguided attempts in the Utah Legislature. While we're sympathetic to the politics, Huntsman has just encouraged lawmakers to produce more of the same.

Beehive to 4th District Judge Derek Pullan for bringing the dispute over a Mapleton trail closer to resolution. Pullan ruled that Mapleton could invoke eminent domain to condemn property owned by Wendell Gibby to complete the city's portion of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. Gibby has argued for years that the land over which the trail runs is private property and that people could not cross it. Gibby even went as far as putting up concrete barriers to stop hikers. Now that the city can take the property, it all comes down to price.

Buffalo Chip to U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon for voting to keep Americans in the dark. Cannon voted against House Resolution 1309, which would restore the federal Freedom of Information Act's presumption of openness that was taken away by Attorney General John Ashcroft, as well as require government agencies to respond quickly to requests for documents. Cannon spokesman Fred Piccolo said the bill, which passed overwhelmingly in the House (308-117), would burden the executive branch and give terrorists access to sensitive data. We would only observe that there is no record of terrorists or spies using open-records laws to obtain information. But there is plenty of evidence that the secrecy stamp is used to cover up inconvenient truths. Sorry Chris, but the people are not mushrooms.