Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Business staff fits the bill and foots it too Chances are you've never had your hands in the operation pf a $250,000 business. If not, The Michigan Daily business staff is an opportunity that you cannot pass by. We run our business from the smallest classified ad to the distribution of over 10,000 papers to students and faculty across the campus and throughout the na- tion. It takes a well-organized staff of fifty students to do the work on the business staff. Publishing The Daily six times a week means that each of those fifty people shares a large amount of respon- sibility in his department. As a, result The Daily is always ready to welcome new faces. Becoming a part of The Daily staff is probably the easiest thing to do -- a talk with our personnel director is all that it takes to be- come a member. If you should decide The Daily is for you then the next few months will be spent working in each of our departments as a trainee. After completing your trainee- ,ship you can petition for an as- sistant managership in the de- partment of your choice. With this added responsibility comes one of the many small rewards found on The Daily and in this case it is monetary. An assistant managership is really only the second step in your progress to the top of the busi- ness staff hierarchy. After a few weeks -of work and many nickel cakes you'll find that the people who "really" manage the paper are the junior managers. The junior year on The Daily is prob- ably the most busy of the four you'll have on the staff. You are now the person responsible for the quality and type of ad that will run in tomorrow's paper or the many problems that always seem to come up in circulation. As a junior, your contacts are directly with the people who pat. ronize The Daily. If you're the kind of person that finds all types of people interesting, then servic- ing the advertising accounts of Ann Arbor merchants is your type of work. Management in circula- tion and classified brings you and the students of the University to- gether. Much time is spent over the phone making sure they get their Daily or figuring out why in the world they didn't get it. Senior staff positions aren't the end of the road, for after three years of listening to seniors miake decisions the tables are finally turned. Now you, along with the other five senior managers, can decide whatis best for The Daily and then spend a whol 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 independ- ent pa'per - a privilege that'not many other college newspapers share. During the past 8 years t'e have built up assets of $450,000 through our advertising and sub- scription revenue, thus guaran- teeing our financial and editorial independence from the University. Chances are that a few minutes spent at the Student Publications building may be well worth your while. -Daily-Jay L. Cassidy Diversity scores for sports Business cIty room Sports action for you i .. _ _ r t t[ 1t WELCOME- Ul .6of M~. Students MICHIGAN'S Wolverines - Michigan's famous Marching Band-The Victors- By FRED LaBOUR Summer Assistant Spoi~s Editor Once upon a time, a Turkish sultan noticed that, for one rea- son or another, his harum's ranks were being depleted. He organized a search for new recruits, interviewing each win- some young lass personally. One girl, tall of-stature, volup- tious of figure, and lovely of vis- age came before the sultan. "I don't know sir," she said hesitantly. "I just don't know how good I'd be." "My dear," said the dirty old man, "you don't have to be good, just. willing.'' And that, excited reader, is all that's required of you when you join The Daily sports staff. Just willing to work, The sports staff of this, the campus rag, is inecharge of the sports pages in each and every Daily. The emphasis of our coverage is of course on Wolverine athletic exploits but we also covek collegi- ate sports in general as well as some professional endeavors.. Our unspoken motto is to "tell it like it is. baby" and that's just what we try to do.We try to give a complete and comprehensive account of what's going on down in the catacombs of the Events Building, the untracked wastes of; Michigan Stadium, and the watery floors of the Intramural Building. We travel ac;oss the length and breadth of wonderful America to follow the Wolverines as they take on worthy opponents of every nature, be it puckster, tanker or gridder. We talk to coaches of every ma- jor athletic team in the country. We interview the 0. J. Simpson's as well as the Earl Worgesons of the athletic world. Through columns we analyze wins and losses, philosophies and rubber bands, hard-rock (dis- guised as Little Sherri Funn) and the University. There is a place for you on The Daily sports staff. You'll probably start off as a trainee. helping the night editor put out the sports pages at night. You can start writing as soon as you want to. A sports staffer progresses at his own rate. He can spend 40 hours a week here or 15 minutes. It's up to him. Helping the night editor is pretty much of a drag, but it en- ables you to get a feel for what really goes into the paper. After awhile, you'll be a training night editor, and finally a real live, full-fledged night editor. Then you start getting paid. Not enough to retire on, you un- derstand, but enough to keep you well supplied with gummed ciga- rette papers. When you get to be a big-deal senior you probably will be ap- pointed to one of the editor posts which involves more money and lots of vague prestige. Don't worry about not liking or knowing anything about sports. Sbme of us don't either. On our current staff we've got a former trombone player from New York, a Demolay 'maniac /' State Street-The from West Virginia, a white lib- eral from Bay City, a sorority girl, a campus freak, an Establishment man from Chicago, a rock n' roll reviewer, a former janitor at Michigan State, and a guy who loads milk cans in the off season. Appear some afternoon at The Daily and say you want to Join the sports staff. Wonderful things might start to happen. We want you. League-The Union -a ll are great traditions of a great A look at .. Reviewing by Daniel Okrent It is axiomatic for critics of the arts, no matter how highly .placed or well-qualified they may be, that they be despised and reviled by a good part of their reading public. Their jobs require them to take matter-of-fact-stands on topics of purely subjective value, and as each individual who witnesses an artistic event invariably has a view of his own, and that there are often as many different views as there are viewers, the critic does not stand a very good chance of being "agreed with." So, all he can do is offer a forum; his 'views, disseminated through popular media, are best used as a springboard for eliciting the views and emotions of others. But, still, people will disagree with him, resent him, swamp him with mailed abuse and generally make him - if he is not open- minded and careful - horribly paranoiac. As bad as it may be for the professional critic who finds his works published in so-called A'prestige publications" the critic who tries to peddle his judgments in a comparatively irrelevant forum stands in greater danger of abuse. So it is with The Daily's reviewers. Not all of us are eminently qualified--in fact, as regular film critic, I myself, more of a devil's advocate than anything else, hope to start- discussion, if, nothing else. All of us are newcomers to the field, relatively speaking. We are not looked at with the same reverence (understandably) as pro- fessional critics for, say, The New York Times or The Nation. We are merely other students, mouthing off and taking advantage of, an "in" at The Daily. Consequently, each of us, and our predecessors before us. stands up as a target for the rotten tomatoes of equally astute critics who just happen to enjoy going to the show or to a play.'or concert. One writer accused me of trying to be cinematically chic, just regurgitating the vogue in current film aesthetics. -The next day, another writer berated me for being old-fashioned and out of touch with the new trends in film judgment. Some have said I have seen too many film to remain "pure" asa critic, many others say I haven't seen enough. The same holds true for Dick Perry and Jim Peters, our music reviewers, and for Richard Keller Simon, our regular theatre re- viewer. Even little Sherri Funn and little Suzi Funn, our pseu- donymic rock 'n' roll columnists, have been mauled in the mails. OK, maybe we deserve it. Maybe I'm evading my ineptitude by blaming my position. But we try hard, nevertheless. I can only say that by offering my views, I can encourage-others to make some of their own. 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