R 11 1962 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ZEj THREI £nsian Guards Campus Memories I ~ ... For Each Year's Graduating Class By ROBERT SELWA Better 'n ever. That's the watchword of a group of nostalgic-minded students who gather daily in an office on the first floor of the Student Pub- lications Building to prepare the 1963 Michiganensian. "We aim to continue modern- izing the book," comments 'Ensian managing editor Linda Joel, '63. Cites Improvements She cites these projected im- provements in the yearbook to come next May. 1) A more varied use of color. Previous 'Ensians had nearly all their color concentrated in a 36- page opening section. Joel's staff plans to use more color and to diffuse it throughout the book. - 2) Re-arrangement of sections so as to provide greater continuity; Greater Informality 3) Even greater informality than the1962 'Ensian, which provided humorous pictures and cut lines in the housing section and with mood pictures every few pages in the senior section; 4) Continue;1 better representa- tion of student life (The staff aims to make the book less abstract by showing the campus community as It lives, studies and plays); and 5) Further modernization. The 1962 'Ensian uses student artwork on division pages, line etchings in the living section, much open space and artistic copy blocks. It has no advertisement and it has a vast index that lists organizations as well as people. The 1963 book, Miss Joel plans, will keep this tone and will use more art work and open' 1r space. Not an End The general theme of the 19631 'Ensian is that graduation is not an end, but a beginning, and that the years at college are prepara- tion for the new life ahead. "We aim also to show what the University is accomplishing," Miss Joel continues. "And we aim to capture the particular essence of this coming year, whatever it will be.'' Nearly everyone at the Univer- sity can be found in the 'Ensian. The- index in the 1962 book is 20 pages long. Prestige "The 'Ensian is a prestige book," M1riss, Joel notes, 'citing the All- American, first place award it won in1961. "It is one of the few college yearbooks having a theme from beginning to end, including the cover," she adds. Many positions are open on the staff, Those who work on the 'Ensian can gain a fuller apprecia- tion- of campus life, getting to know diverse and important people, according to Miss Joel. And the experience, she notes, is ben- eficial for' those interested in photography, writing, art or busi- ness. 'Ensian subscriptions sell for six dollars during registration week and for $6.50 afterwards. The price is $7.00 at the end of the year. Miss Joel urges students to re- serve their book right away. Permanent Record This $7.00 buys a complete, per- manent record of the University's year. All areas of campus life are recorded-from Angel Hall corri- dors to North Campus. Pledging is photogrlaphed and described, and football games are gone into with considerable detail. There are also reflections by the 'Ensian editors, some of them nos- talgic, and some of them critical of the campus as seen by the 'En- 'sian office. A full year is needed in order to put out the 'Ensian, as its editors are always eager to attest. Each spring its editors are appointed by the Board in Control of Student Publications. These are the people _1I THE MICH IGAN LEAGUE m MOBIL. DARKROOM WORK-'Ensian photographers work all year taking and then developing and printing the many pictures that'go into each year's issue. Football games, fraternity, sorority and activity group pictures-these and many more must all be prepared and carefully printed. Even there the problems do not stop, however, for a constant vigilance is needed to avoid putting same-sized pictures on each other's pages. who will put out the following LOCAL, NATIONAL STORIES: spring's yearbook. Work in Summer Although some planning and getting ready is done during the spmmer, most of the work begins as the semester does, in the fall. Soon after classes begin, the 'En- sian calls a tryout meeting in or- der to form a freshman staff lost when the last-year's freshmen were promoted. No worlC on a similar yearbook, or any other special training, is needed in order to join the staff. Just a willingness to work, the 'En'sian editors say. Freshmen gradually workstheir way up until as seniors they occupy the most important posts on the staff. During the course of the year,1 photographs must be planned for and taken, and then put into page dummies. The composition of each page, and whether to have more or fewer pages in color, must bej decided on. The written copy go- ing into the yearbook also needs to1 be done and then check for ac-1 curacy. Solicit Adsa While the editors are getting thel layouts done and future pictures1 assigned, the business staff is busy soliciting subscriptions. This is done by stationing salesmen in strategic spots throughout the campus, as well as in each house unit in the dormitories and quad- rangles. Besides this, the - business staff keeps the 'Ensian accounts, and is responsible for soliciting adver- tising for the issue. Shipped off to the printer (se- lected each year from competitive bidders from all over the country), the 'Ensians arrive, finished, to the Student Publications Building in the middle of May, in time to distract staff members and readers from their final examinations. Students then crowd the 'En- sian offices and other parts of the publications building in a rush to pick up their copies. If all goes well, and the editors haven't mis- calculated the demand and or- dered 1100 extra copies, they will be able to sit back and relax for a few days while the crowds walk about happy and, impressed. Daily Offers Campus Ample News Coverage (Continued from Page 1) 2, 5, and 8) where only local news will run. The night editors naxidle all AP news, as well as the moret important local copy.t Staff members spend more and more time working on The Daily1 as they rise in the job hierarchy.- Spending only a few hours a weekt as freshman, they sometimes find themselves spending 40 to 60 hours a week working in juniorand senior positions. Less Routine The senior editors, appoirted from the preceeding year's junior staff, have less routine work than the juniors, and more of a chance to devote their time to crusades for reforms on campus. In the past, senior editors have often played decisive roles in University policy-making; the change begun on the Office of Student Affairs was to a considerable degree the result of efforts by Daily senior editors. The city editor assigns stories to the juniors and lower-staff members, and also writes a run- ning criticism, at times pungent, on the quality of the daily papers. More than any other person on the paper (or the campus), he is obliged to know what has hap- pened and is due to happen in all areas The Daily may have to write on. Associate City Editor The associate city editor has di- rect responsibility for supervising the photography staff's work, and also helps the city editor in his' work. The Daily publishes a magazine approximately once a month, and one senior staff miember, the mag- aznie editor, is given complete au- tonomy and freedom from other tasks, in order to devote himself to this one. Articles are written by staff members and also by out- side writers specially qualified on some particular subject. The editorial director is the sen- ior responsible for putting out the editorial page each day. Any staff member can write editorials on anything he pleases, being- limited only by libel, or in a few cases, by tactical considerations. The edi- torial director must check these editorials for facts, however. Can't Alter Editorials While not allowed to change an editorial unless the writer con- sents, the editorial director still has the right to leave any edi- torial out of the paper. He must also make up the editorial page dummy each day. On the right hand side of the page, in the nar- row columns, go the reviews, let- ters to the editor, feature stories and cartoons. The associate editorial director helps in all the director's work, and is usually given especial charge over the reviewing ar- range--movies are often reviewed by regular Daily staffers, but spe- cial reviewers are used for plays, music, and book reviews. The editor himself has little or no routine work assigned to him, though he has authority over and responsibility for all the paper does. He is The Daily's chief con- tact with University and other officials, The Daily is seen by the campus and community through their im- pressions of the editor. Within the Daily too, staff members tend to think of the paper as an extension of the editor's person, rather than some less personal concept of pure organization. Service Unit To Do Work On Directory The Student Directory, which contains each student's local tele- phone number and local and home address, appears each year be- cause of time given to it by one of the campus' honorary organiza- tions. This year the organization is .Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity; its president on campus, William Hertlein, '64E, explained that about 30 people will devote some of their time to the project, during the tim al- lotted it in registration week in the fall. Work begins Thursday of regis- tration week; by the following Monday the printer has the al- phabetized IBM cards, from which he prepares photo-offset copy. The IBM machine sorts the cards into alphabetical order after each day's registration; the stu- dents who compile the directory must organize the various IBM lists into one master copy. WELCOMESi ENJOY Air-Condition FRESHMEN OUR, ed Cafeteria Lunches and Dinners Air-Conditioned Snack Bar Breakfast, Lunch or a Snack Main Desk Campus Information and the Best in Reading Overnight Accommodations For family and Friends I Besides this, they must get the advertizing that appears in the directory; after ads are sold, the Student Publications Building shop sets them, and rolls off reproduc- tion proofs. These are then photographed, and reproduced half-size, prior to annnvino nn the nffset cony SLeague Garden A quiet place of beauty 1