Wednesday, August 27, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Wednesday, August 27, 1 969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Pizza By NADINE COHODAS A lot of snazzy things happen around the clock at The Daily. At 2:03 a.m., for example, one may find an intense bridge game going on amid half-as- sembled news stories from the Associated Press and the de- carbonated vestiges of the coun- try's only nickel cokes (Greedier staff members play poker.) Or a cursory glance around the 420 Maynard St. office at 8:15 p.m. is likely to reveal a brief struggle between two hun- gry staff members over the last piece of a half sausage, half anchovies pizza from the nearby Greek pizza restaurant. But much of the time, we spend our hours publishing six newspapers weekly from Sep- tember to April and five a week during the summer. Although The Daily is a col- lege newspaper, we also print na- tional or world stories. The Daily is the only morning paper in Ann Arbor and has the latest deadline in the state. However, the bulk of Daily stories come from the campus or the city and are written by Daily staff members of all f shapes, sizes and abilities. c Some people say there's no 1 substitute for experience, but any interested student can work k on The Daily although he may p never have worked on a news- paper before.a If you can hold a pencil, read e and politics at 420 Maynard In addition, if other trainees are just beginning their tenure with The Daily, you will be in charge of delegating to them the duties you just left behind. Copy editing, a salaried posi- tion, lies in a store for promoted ANE's. This involves going through national news from the Associated Press and condensing important stories into four or five inch summaries. Copy Edi- tors also stay on hand to help Night Editors edit local stories. The real fun comes when you become an actual Night Editor, and the front page and a salary increase belongs to you. After a brief training period during which you are assisted by a senior Night Editor, you t a k e over the responsibility for the copy, the layout, and the pro- duction of page one. It becomes very gratifying to produce the final, complete page, and provides a real les- son in meeting deadlines each time you work. Besides, there's always t h e bridge game after you lock the paper at 1:50 a.m. And you even get your name as Night Editor on the editorial page so everyone knows who to con- gratulate or blame. And hopefully, if you're still with us by now, you will be- come, at last, a Senior Editor- running the paper, making edi- torial and news decisions and outranking other staff members for the last hunk of pizza. Unlike most college newspap- ers, The Daily is run entirely by students. The University does own the building and equipment and the members of the produc- tion crew are professionals. But all decisions are made exclus- ively by students. Before last January, the Board in Control of Student Publica- tions had official say over the appointment of Senior Editors and controlled financial opera- tions. Normally no dissension between the Daily and the board existed, but in 1967, t h e board refused to approve t h e appointment of Roger Rapo- port as Editor. After The Daily refused to re- scind its appointment, the board eventually accepted Ra- poport. Such controversies can no longer occur, however. At their January 1969 meeting, the Re- gents restructured the renamed board-now the Board for Stu- dent Publications - and elim- inated its power to approve Senior Editor appointments. The board still controls fin- ancial operations but only acts in advisory capacity in editor appointments. The new board is composed of students, and faculty and pro- fessional journalists selected by the administration from a list submitted by the Daily, 420 Maynard is really a very nice place. Although we have lots of paper, pencils, glue, nickle cokes, and four telephone lines to boot, we can't promise Mae West. But when you get to Ann Ar- bor, why don't you come up and see us some time? + I Saround in E d it cltie AT 2:30 A.M., Daily Pressman Lauren Kinsley makes a casting of the morning's front page. Soon 10,000 copies of The Daily will be flowing from our Goss Unitube press, one of them des- tined for your doorstep or mailbox. A perpetual toast to sports By JIM FORRESTER Associate Sports Editor A very drunk man stood in an almost empty bar sipping a high-powered martini. The b a r tender slowly wiped shot glasses until t h e y Sparkled in the dim light. Then a well dressed kangaroo walked in the door. The bouncy fellow spun around, hopped up the front wall, across the ceiling, down the back wall and up to the bar. As the be-furred tippler pouched up to the rail, he ordered the bar-keep, "A high-ball. please." The bartender complied without so much as a second glance. But the drunk's mouth had dropped open fortunately he was able to pick it up?, his eyes bugged wide in a stare of pure incredulity. The kangaroo drank the mix with a barely audible gulp and ordered another and downed it in the same manner. He then paid his bill, hop- ped to the rear of the establishment, up the wall, across the ceiling again. down the front wall and out the door. The drunk slobbered, stammered and finally aked the bartender. in an effort to reassert c'00l he had never had, "Didn'tsshew not'ce any- thin' odd 'bout that lash fella?" "Yeah," replied the bar-keep with a shrug, "he didnt say good night." If you've read this far then you're ready -. . ready to join The Daily Sports Staff- Like the kangaroo, we don't say good night much either. But we do say good morning a lot. That's because we work so late, often til two in the AM. You might think with working so late we don't go to many classes. You're right. A re- cent poll of sports freaks disclosed t h a t the staff's total class attendance for a "good week was four hours. This is a lie, we do go to a few more classes and lap up the wisdom cast forth in lectures of 300 students or more, but not many. We play poker, get drunk and bull shit a lot. Sometimes we talk about music, on other occas- ions movies and, oh yes, even sports. Sports isn't what's fun about the sports staff it's the sports staff. Some are a mountain of information on sports. Just ask, "How many bas- es did Billy Bruton steal in 1957." Well, maybe you'd better stick to who won the Super Bowl Some even hate sports. In fact, quite a few hate sports. In spite of, or perhaps because of various quirks in staff members the sports pages come out every morning containing all those goodies the campus has been sitting in a sweat over. As a staffer, you get to cover such exciting sports as football, basketball and hockey. But as a new staffer you sleep through intramural cross-country meets, and write s u c h exciting features as "Why Michigan should compete in Inter-collegiate fencing." di That's just the writing end. The edit p~art is just as important, for without it no one would have a Daily to read while eating peanut butter toast. First, you are a trainee. You write picture captions, or - as they say in the business - "cut-lines," learn to write headlines ("heads") and all sorts of other fascinating stuff. Peruse these classic heads: "Wrestlers must third to catch up" "Ritual snack gives Brown gas - to win" "Tigers take Birds in hand and Busch" Unfortunately the next two were not printed. The first after the sixth game of the World Ser- ies. Detroit had beaten St. Louis 13-1. The sec- ond was junked after the Michigan-Ohio State football game. "'Tigers distill bats and run drunk with pow- er" And . "On to the Rose Bowl" After a while you are promoted to the post of Training Night Editor (TNE> to learn some of the more intricate aspects of putting the paper together. Then, after a stint as a TNE you are promot- ed to the exalted position of Night Editor. In this position y o u are responsible for determining what the next day's pages look like and to a great extent what's in them. If you can stand the place until your fourth year at the 'U' then you may well become some kind of Senior Editor. And if you're still reading this then you're really ready, though I'm not sure for what, t e c f' t c I c f n t; rom left to right, apply rubber ement on paper in a straight horizontal line, we can use you. If you can type, you get a free kiss from the editor of the ap- propriate gender.) There is plenty to do here, and you can work your way lit- 'rally from the bottom up. All rainees, regardless of previous 'xperience, start their Daily 'areers in the shop on the first loor proofreading stories for he next day's paper and then move to the second floor for more advanced work. After becoming sufficiently familiar with the standard copy 'orrection code, trainees take on creative endeavors-writing catchy, pithy, appropos headlines or stories. Essentially this means finding five or six precise words to sum up 30 inches of copy. It is, indeed, a test of in- genuitiy--Roget's Thesaurus is Editor Henry (rix banned from the premises al- though in a tight spot consul- tation with Webster's Dictionary is permitted. After a few days of being a bonafied trainee, the real stuff begins. You'll get your first story assignment complete with names of people to see, suggest- ions of questions to ask and an idea or two on how to construct the eventual finished product. 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