THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, AUGUST 30,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY. AUGUST 30.1986 _. F SPORTSWRITING: Daily Business Staff Operates Athletic Fanatics Gather To Untangle Sticky Red Tape BySSA ERSAD heyarad hn ewilbeal To Cv By BUD WILKINSON Would you like to talk to and write about some of the best ath- letes in the country and travel with them and their coaches all over the Midwest? Would you like to compete with the top sportswriters on the De- troit and Chicago papers for the latest and most comprehensive stories about Michigan athletics? Both of these are everyday ex- periences for members of The Daily sports staff. Unlike any other college newspaper, the Daily covers completely and comprehen- sively all of its school's sporting events. Also, with the latest deadline in the state at 2 a.m., The Daily has an advantage over every other newspaper in the state in getting the late-breaking stories about Wolverine sports and important national sports news. Sports Fanatics Some of the sports staff's mem- bers are journalism majors, but most are just avid sports fans, sports fans who want to be on the inside of the Michigan sports scene and who want to express their enthusiasm for sports in writing. They are students who enjoy personal contact with the Wolver- ine coaches who have given Mich- igan the best combined sports rec- ord of any college in the country and the athletes like football All- American Bill Yearby, the coun- try's top basketball player Cazzie Russell,, Olympic swimmers Carl Robie and Bob Farley, NCAA champion wrestler Dave Porter, world champion trampolinist Dave By SUSAN PERLSTADT the year and then he will be able Business Manager to choose the one he likes best and r M ajor E vents' Bureaucracy can be fun. It has petition for an assistant manager- been said that the only organiza- ship for sophomore year, tion that is more bureaucratic Thus begins the first step up Miller, and other of the nation's becomes a reporter and is assigned than the University, itself, is The the ladder of hierarchy with a; finest collegiate athletes. one of the winter sports as his own Michigan Daily business staff. But, monetary reward for your services. See the U.S.A. beat. unlike the University, they have Yes, The Michigan Daily is sol- fun in a bureaucratic sense. The vent. We believe that cutting red; The sports staff follows these' Story a Week business staff is composed of 50 tape is time consuming, and there- coaches and athletes around the The amount of writing that a students, has four levels of status, fore once you are appointed to a country to phone back complete reporter does varies with his in- eight departments, and a lot of position you will start being paid. results of all Michigan athletic terest and the amount of time he red tape. It is learning to cut that The salary isn't much; we consider events, whether at home or away has to devote to The Daily, but red tape that makes it interesting. it a nice present that we receive eamost reporters turn out one story At the top of the hierarchy is every month. But it does help to The peak of the sports staff's a week. the business manager and the make those ends meet. travel comes at Big Ten weekend, Sometime during his sophomore ; other five senior managers. Then In addition to being a news- when the conference titles are de- year, the reporter will become a I come the junior managers who are paper reporting the news, The cided. For example, last March night editor, working one night a in charge of a department such Daily is a business. Over 75 years week and assuming complete re- as circulation, advertising, or bill- it has built up assets of over the Daily had a reporter at the sponsibility for the sports page ing. Next down the line are the $420,000 through subscriptions and swimming championships at Iowa that night. assistant managers who work un- advertising revenue, thus remain- City, the track championships at der the junior managers in each ing financially independent of the East Lansing, the wrestling cham- This job includes making sure department; at the lowly bottom University. The Daily is among a pionships at Champaign, Ill., and stories are in, editing copy, and sit the trainees. A freshman can privileged minority of college the gymnastics title meet at laying out and locking the page. join the business staff as a trainee newspapers: it is one of the few Bloomington, Ind. At the end of his junior year a (sorry we can't start you off at the papers which is not controlled or for assuring this financial inde- pendence. The staff has a training pro- gram for new members designed to familiarize them with all aspects of the business side of the paper's operation. Whatever type of person you are, whatever kind of interests you have, we can find a place for you on our staff. If you are an out- going person, who meets others easily you can solicit ads from the local merchants. If you like to work with figures, then billing is for you. If you are creative, then you can write the ads. Or if you like a challenge then circulation is where you belong. Perhaps it is because there are such a diversification of duties, that we must be bureaucratic. In any case, The Michigan Daily, al- though being a quarter of a mil- lion dollar business, having re- sponsibilities, being bureaucratic, and having lots of red tape to cut, is fun. Come in and see for your- self. We'll be happy to talk to you at any time between 1 and 4 p.m. Don't let that stop you. Talk to Liz Rhein any time about joining the business staff. ATHLETES ARE ALSO served by machine: to unravel the news as it is wired in from across the country, is a, sport within itself. STUDGNT BOOK SQRV1CQ Lowest prices in town on All Freshmen books. New and Used Meanwhile, back in Ann Arbor, another reporter was covering the Northwestern basketball game in which Michigan clinched the Big Ten title. Nickel Cokes The sports staffers also get all the other advantages of working for The Daily-the use of the edi- torial page as a forum for express- ing opinions on important issues, the only nickel Coke machine in Ann Arbor, late-night bullnses- sions, and a second home at the Student Publications Building. Exactly what does a person do' who joins the sports staff and how much time does it take? The beginning freshman works one night as a week writing head- lines, reading proof, editing the Associated Press copy, and helping the night editor to meet his dead- line. By the time the winter sports season comes along the trainee I night editor may petition the Board in Control of Student Pub- lications for one of the positions on the senior staff. The positions available are sports editor, two as- sociate sports editors, and usuallyI one or two contributing sports top). There will be meetings with the personnel director, Liz Rhein, who will give all sorts of facts and figures to start the trainee on his way. He will have a chance to work in four departments during editors. The sports staff of The Daily ( le offers an opportunity for criitical ment and for written expression of campus activity catno other Ino Flash and Phioto Career caphyslactivity hanoother censored by its school's adminis- tration or journalism department. The continued solvency of The Daily's prerequisite to its long tra- dition of editorial freedom. And the business staff is responsible It offers an opportunity to pro- duce creatively under the pressure Just before the Second World of a deadline and the knowledge War, a pleasant-looking young that whatever is written - good, sophomore wandered, into The bad, or indifferent-will be viewed Michigan Daily looking for adven- by 20,000 interested students, fac- ture, excitement, and a purpose in ulty members and alumni the next life. morning. Before he could make it over to The feeling of accomplishment the photography editor's desk he and pride in one's work exper- was clapped on the shoulder by ienced by seeing your efforts in the friendly personnel director print under that big black byline and steered in the general direc- is hard to beat anywhere. I tion of the night desk. He was 1215 South U. 761-0700 told that he was about to embark on a brilliant career in the liter- ary racket. Unfortunately for the young sophomore, Arthur Miller, there was never time enough for him to meander over to the bright little corner of the city room in which the photographic nervescenter of The Daily is located, so he has struggled along all his life on the meager proceeds of his literary endeavors, never knowing where his next Pulitzer Prize was com- ing from. Avoid the fate which befell this bewildred student! To take the first steps toward your slated des- tiny among such photographic greats as Karsh, Brasson, and Steichen, walk boldly through the clatter and clutter of the Water- man Gymnasium exit, and hie thy- self over to the warm portals of the Student Publications Building, 420 Maynard St. Go up to the second floor, take a left into the city room, and stride over to the desk of the photo editor. Then announce to him that you're looking for ad- venture,excitement, and a pur- pose in life. University's oldest institutions, The Michigan Daily photo staff. The photo editor will begin to tell you of the responsibilities and opportunities of a staff member. Wiping his rimless spectacles, he will explain the schedule in which one photographer works either one afternoon or one evening a week, averaging about an hour and a half each time. He will enumerate the ways in which photographs of special news interest are sent out to be printed in newspapers and maga- zines throughout the world He will show you The Daily's cameras and equipment, and dem- onstrate the process by which an exposed negative is developed, printed, engraved, and brought to press. Blinking his watery eyes, he will elucidate the feeble remuneration system of The Daily. Warning his childbrained hands against a hiss- ing radiator, he will ask you if you are prepared to devote time and thought to an effort that will help lower your grade point aver- age and heighten your aversion to phone calls. CAN YOU MEET THE CHALLENGE? In order for The Michigan Daily to maintain high standards of excel lene, The Daily needs a qualified and experienced staff. Only YOU can keep us going. 0 Looking up trom his littered If at the end of this long reci- desk, he will no doubt struggle tation, the photo editor grabs your against the emotion welling in his hand in his wrinkled paw and throat, and stretching forth a gives it a curt shake, congratula- hand in silent welcome, invite you tions! You're in. The rest is up to to become a member of one of the you. JOIN THE MICHIGAN DAILY 7 or THE PULSE OF The Daily's Circulation; business, classified, display ads. financial management. freshmen '4 A THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S world is everything beyond and through the view of a window pane. I 14 Someone at Boersma has visited every major area in the world. Why entrust your travel to anyone less than a professional Center ENE I "Rely on Experience" TICKETS AT OFFICIAL RATES I 0 T w IN./w T V ALUA- W .,/ i.' I I K I