PAGE TWO rim -- ,rU- Nmuu A CU nAEP U B~ "PAGE:TWO. aIuDE 1 . l! l1H lr L F1 4 Y - . THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1967 77 Year Legacy of Editorial Freedom Contiit 'es (Continued from Page 1) All this brought intense criti- cism of The Daily-from Regents, s o m e faculty members and administrators. The c r i t i c i s m brought intense pressure on the Board in Control of Student Pub- lications to "do something" about The Daily. The Board oversees all student publications, including Gargoyle, Generation and the Michiganen- sian as well as TheDaily. An in- dependent s t u d e n t association formed The Daily in 1890 and in 1903 sold it to the Faculty Senate, which had earlier created a Board in Control of Student Publications. As it evolved over time, the Board lost its tie 'to the faculty andrbecame an autonomous body reporting directly to the Regents, like the Board in Control of In- tercollegiate Athletics. Consisting today of five faculty members, three students, two alumni and two administrators (the vice-presidents for student affairs and University relations), the Board has increasingly limited itself to overseeing The Daily's financial affairs, avoiding any in- trusion into Daily editorial policy. But the Board had voted-on Feb. 6-to ask the faculty for an "investigation" into the "proper purpose, function and responsi- bility" of The Daily. Some Board members viewed it as a chance to "do something" about the paper, while others thought it 'would give The Daily. a vote of confidence and take some of the pressure off the Board. The faculty did eventually authorize a study of University communications media but avoid- ed initiating the type of investi- gation requested by the Board, obviously reluctant to step into the controversy. Thus the pressure on the Board to "do something" increased as the day for Daily senior appointments approached. Daily senior appointments are, in the view of Dailyrstaffers,sa question of editorial freedom just as much as news and editorial content. They generally believe that the Board's appointments role should be limited to seeing that the jun- iors recommended for senior ap- pointments by the outgoing senior editors have the requisite 2.0 aver- eral Board members had suggested discussing, the Free Press editorial, out of The Daily in exchange for age and meet the other empirical that adding several new elements the telegrams and the disclosure Rapoport's appointment. standards set forth. to The Daily's Code of Ethics about Hatcher all apparently had As the New York Times reporter But perhaps because senior ap- might serve as a "face-saver" for the desired effect. there to cover the storylater pointments have become virtually the wavering Board members. The Board voted, first 6-5 in a drawled, "There are two schools the only real control it can em- Rapoport and Killingsworth straw poll and then 7-4 in an of thought about those proposals" ploy--and even though it usually talked over seven of these pro- official tally, to accept Rapoport - the "face-saving" school and rubberstamps the seniors' recom- posed "additions"-such as an edi- and the rest of the senior editors' the "concession" school. mendations-the Board generally torial-page spot for faculty and recommendations. But in a series of hectic meet- says that its role should be more administration opinion, which had Crisis Not Over ings held during the Board meet- diiect and influential than that. already been initiated-and Rapo- The crisis wasn't entirely over ing, the staff voted to accept When the Board had finished port began discussing these with yet, however. Many Daily staffers Rapoport's suggestion that the interviewing the juniors recom- the three Board members. were concerned that the seven staff could vote to accept or reject mended for senior positions, Prof. Important Developments proposals submitted to the Board any or all of the proposals at Luke Cooperrider of the law There were also three other im- by Rapoport, largely as face- a later staff meeting. school, Board chairman, called the portant developments before Feb. savers, might be construed as con- In the end, most Daily staffers senior editors into the room and 23: cessions the Board had squeezed considered that they had won a said that the Board had voted 7-4 i36 state legislators and num- to reject Rapoport as editor-al-Ierous Daily alumni sent telegrams g d declined to say why- to Hatcher and Cooperrider, con- Rapoport for any other position urging that the Board reverse its on the senior editorial staff. decision. The Board then adjourned, set- ed The Detroit Free Press print-. S alesnl-wrculation ting another meeting two days tacking the Board, praising Rapo- later, Feb. 20. port and urging his appointment By ED NEUBAUER cokes you'll find that the people portandurgig hs apoinmen. }who "really" manage the paper are The Daily staff met continu- It had earlier attacked the pro- Chances are you've never had ously until 4:30 the next morning posed faculty investigation of The your hands in the operation of a the junior managers. The junior and several times during the next Daily in a laudatory editorial $250,000 business. If not, The Mi- year on The Daily is probably the three days to discuss what it titled, "The Daily Does Its Job." chigan Daily business staff is an most busy of the four you'll have would do if the Board refused to opportunity that you cannot pass on the staff. You are now the. appoint Rapoport on Feb. 23.hig The Daily leained from a by. We run our own business from person responsible for the quality Finally. it decided to authorize dgh University official that Pres- the smallest classified ad to the and type of ad that will run in the senior editors to call a strike ident Hacher had tried--unsuc- distribution of over 10,000 paperstomorrow's paper or the - many and shut down publication if nec- cessfully-to, get Board Chairman to students and faculty across the problems that always seem to essary. e Cooperrider to block Rapoport. campus and throughout the na- come up in circulation. At the same time, Daily staffers The Daily then printed the tion. Direct Contact and several Board members had story-it appeared the morning of j It takes a well-organized staff As a junior, your contacts are dI-: been nieeting in an attempt to the Board meeting - which of fifty students to do the work onI rectly with the people who patron- "work something out," as one prompted faculty and student thI Board member put it. comment highly 'critical of Hatch- te business staff. Publishing The i1ze The Daily. If you're the kind Roortimelf had metwitht.r's atmt th mniplatthDaily six times a week means thay of person that finds all types of Rapport himself had met with er s attempt to manipulate the each of those fifty people shares people interesting, then servicing three Board members who were supposedly independent board. a large amount of responsibility in the advertising accounts of Ann known to be wavering in their A combination of Rapoport's his department. As a result Th Arbor merchants is your type of opposition to him. Moreover, sev- lobbying, the proposals he was Daily is always ready to welcome work. Management in circulation nea-a -- - -and classified brings you and the victory over the Board-which ir the early 1960's had eventually managed to get the senior editors to revise some of their recoin- mnendations and in 1943 had blocked the appointment of o-e junior recommended by the senio' editors Rapoport's rejection was the first time in the 77-year history of The Daily that the Board had rejected the senior editors' recom- mendation for Daily editor-in- chief. And, Daily staffers contend, it was the first clear-cut defeat for the Board over appointments as well. 4 lusiness; Mount' i Killingsworth Rapoport SEX _. __i Ij , _ I j lI r ?, (;( and then spend a whole year watching your ideas take effect. The senior staff focuses around the business manager; a trainee just a few semesters ago. He is the one responsible for the fifty peo- ple who work on his staff and all of the decisions that they make. The Daily's biggest asset isn't the amount of money that it makes or its net worth, but the fact that it is truly an independent paper-a privilege that not many other college newspapers share. During the 'past 77 years we have built up assets of $450,000 through our advertising and subscription revenue, thus guaranteeing our financial and editorial indepen- dence of the University. The Daily is neither financially or editorially controlled by the University's administration o r journalism departments. This in- dependence is of prime concern to the business staff' for by continu- ing and even increasing the reve- nue of the paper we insure The Daily's'long tradition of editorial freedom. Chances are that a few minutes spent at the Student Publications building may well be wortl your while. 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