Thursday, Septembee 9, 1971
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By M4AYNARD
The Michigan Daily wants you..
If you can hold a pencil, if you
like finding out things, if you
need more than just classes, if
you would rather be a bylined
name than a student identifica-
tion number, then the Daily staff
might just be the place.
In fact, you have a choice of
four staffs within the paper; busi-
ness, photo, sports, or editorial.
Business staff keeps the paper
financially sound, and manages
the Daily's $300,000 a year bud-
get. Avid business staffers sell,
lay out, and sometimes design
ads, as well as tending to sub-
scription and circulation. UJn;ke
the rest of the Daily staffs, bunt -
ness people actually keep con-
ventional 9 to 5 (or, more often,
10 to 4) hours.
The photo staff is known for
its vitality and sense of adven-
ture. Photo staffers can turn up
anywhere from the middle of a
Washington, D.C.' anti-war dem-
onstration (to which they have
traveled on Daily money) to the
first row of a very boring facul-
ty meeting, aiming their cam-
eras; but when they get back to
the Daily, they usually retreat
to their sanctum, the darkroom.
The sports staff, as one fan,
puts it, is indescribable. Besides
covering the exploits of the Wol-
verines, organizing the all-staff
football (?) team, the Daily Li-
bels, and playing endless hearts
games, the sports staff is known
for its capacity for beer, pizza,
and taking fuller advantage of the
Daily than any other staff. (More
about them on page 3 of the
Sports Supplement.)
Slightly (but not much) more
decorous than the sports staff is
dents, too, with classes to pass,
and that the other staffers are
often more than Assistant Night
Editors, Night Editors, or what-
ever, they're usually close friends
with each other as well.
And the Daily, despite all the
pressures and pleasures involved
in putting out a newspaper six
days a week (five days a week
during the spring apd summer
terms), is a place to have fun,
to talk to people, to chug cokes
from the only nickel coke ma-
chine in the area.
For the Daily is turning your
back on a water pistol fight to
check the Associated Press
wires; or *atching a two-month
old puppy romping around the
desk where the night editor is
carefully laying out the next
morning's paper ; or playing
fbridge, eating pizza and count-
ing a headline at the same time.
The hypnotic draw of the Daily
is not only the people, or the
barn - like city room with its
clicking AP machines, clacking
typewriters, and constantly ring-
ing telephones.
It's some combination of these
things, and the people who live
with them that traps you and
keeps you hooked for the requi-
site four years.
If you're even vaguely inter-
ested, drop into theStudent Pub-
lications Bldg., 420 Maynard St.,
walk upstairs, and tell someone,
anyone.
T.V. RENTALS
Litter doesn't throwi
itself away; litter
doesn't just happen.
People cause it-and
only people can prevent
it "People" means you.
Keep America Beautiful.
*dvertising contributed
forthe public good
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Life and labor at The Daily
the editorial staff, in charge of
news, editorial comments, and
everything else dealing with the
"news" in newspaper.
Edit staffers are known for
their conscientiousness, alert-
ness, and tendencies to spend
hours at a typewriter, staring
straight ahead and muttering
"why did I join?"
The Daily takes a lot from
you, but is gives you a lot, too.
It takes time - edit staffers
spend anywhere from one to a
solid 14 hours a day here, on the
average.
It takes effort-tracking down
stories is sometimes harder than
it sounds, and writing them up
is even worse. It takes stamina
-nobody likes to see their brain-
child edited beyond recognition,
but it's a rare article that re-
mains untouched and uncriti-
cized.
It takes devotion-you've got
to have real dedication to spend
stretches of eight hours at a
time doing the dirty work like
proof-reading, headline writing,
and errand running, but that's
what you do (when you're not re-
porting), for almost the whole
first year, and you never quite
lose the habit.
Most of all-it takes a touch
of lunacy.,
In return, the Daily gives you
City publica (ions await
your eye and your pen
By ALAN LENHOFF
If you're an aspiring writer or
just an avid reader, various local
publications in Ann Arbor would
be glad to make use of your tal-
ents or to add your name to their
subscription lists.
Aside from The Daily, the Uni-
versity's Board for Student Pub-
lications oversees the operation
of several other student publica-
tions - each of varying popular-
ity and varying solvency.
Perhaps the most stable of the
student publications is the Mich-
iganensian, the University year-
book. This is not to say that ev-
eryone in the University buys it
(or has even heard of it) but
rather an indication that 'Ensian
has changed with the times. The
publication no longer publishes
group pictures of fraternities and
sororities (perhaps the major
reason its sales have gone down
recently). Instead, theynow print
lots of arty pictures of people sit-
ting in the grass along with a
poetic captions that no one really
understands, but everyone as-
sumes must be profound revel a-
tions.
The University's inter - arts
magazine Generation, although
widely acknowledged as an ex-
cellent publication, has been
plagued by financial troubles
and hasn't been published since
last December.
Encompassing art, literature,
music, photography and other
fields Generation hopefully will
appear again this fall-but only
if there is enough interest among
students to get it started.
Gargoyle, the University's hu-
mor magazine, hasn't been pub-
lished since December 1969. Last
spring, some old Gargoyle staf-
fers tried to publish an issue but
failed. Conceivably the magazine
could be saved if a staff formed
this fall.
Other student publications in-
clude:
-Anon, a literary magazine
published by graduate students of
the English department; and
-The Michigan Journalist, pub-
lished by both undergraduate ad
journalism students. The Jour-
nalist prints mostly feture stories
and investigative reporting.
The University also publishes
the University Record which
gives the administration's point
of view on various issues and
contains feature stories on Uni-
versity programs. The paper is
distributed free on stands around
the campus.
The most prominent local non-
University publication is The
Ann Arbor News. The News
comes out every day and has good
coverage of local news, but runs
a fairly innocuous editorial page
power, pride, people and about
$35 a month.
The power, such as it is, comes
from being a part of a newspaper
with a circulation of 10,000 and
an estimated readership of 30,-
000. Although some may refer to
the Daily as "that radical rag,"
and "Dailyslant" is a well-known
word in the University's vocabu-
lary, the Daily is read carefully
for the most part, its views and
the stories it deems important
are noted, and occasionally, its
editorial advice is followed.
The pride, in a way, comes
from having the power, but
there's more! to it than that. The
Daily, with facilities worth $250,-
000, has the best-equipped "shop"
of all college newspapers in the
country. The Daily's printers and
their supervisor-the only non-
student personnel-have all had
years of experience, and some
have owned their own newspa-
pers. The Daily hias won awards
for typography as well as plau-
dits for its reporting.
The pride comes from having
a 2 a.m. newsdeadline-the latest
of any paper in the state-and
occasionally "scooping" the pro-
fessional metropolitan papers
with late breaking news.
The pride comes, for exam-
ple, to staff members who walk
into the Washington, D.C. bureau
of the New York Times, and say
they're from the Daily. And the
man at the Times talks about all
the Daily alumni who work there,
and about being impressed by
the copies of the Daily he's seen
-and sounds as if he isn't fak-
ing it.
The pride comes at 3 a.m.,
watching the papers roll off the
presses and knowing you're at
least partially responsible for
them.
The pride comes, perhaps
most of all, from the people, who
remind each other that "We're
only a student newspaper," while
not believing a word of it.
For, to many, the Daily is
only a student newspaper, but
staffhmembers pride themselves
on their professionalism, and
work hard to live up to that
pride.
In the midst of this profession-
alism, however, staff members
are sometimes forced back to the
realization that they are stu-
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On-campus job recruiting
sparks community debate,
-mostly commenting on non-con-
troversial issues.
The Ann Arbor Sun, published
weekly by the Rainbow People's
Party (formerly the White Pan-
thers) offers a view of the street
community, drugs and rock and
roll. It presents a pretty compre-
hensive cover of what's going on
around the town each week. If
you need some extra money, you
can go to 1517 Hill St. and pick
up some copies to peddle on the
streets.
The Ann Arbor Argus, another
"youth culture" paper, hasn't
published for a while. The Argus
commune, has been breaking up
since it was the target of an Ann
Arbor Police narcotics raid. Whe-
ther it will continue to publish is
speculative.
The Up Against the Wall Street
Journal, published by a group of
local people is distributed free
around the city. This tabloid has
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ity by allowing such actions to
take place under their auspices
and using their funds.,
The verbal battles continued,
but each of the offices continued
to operate in their usual manner.
At this point, President Rob-
ben Fleming sent a letter to the
OSS board stating that their
policy was subject to regental re-
view as one of its provisions-
that a corporation, if mandated
to by one per cent of the student
body must appear at a public
forum before being illowed to
recruit here-was directly con-
trary to a regental decision that
such forums are not mandatory.
Further, he said the Regents
would consider whether OSS
could in fact, bar corporations
which were not in violation of
United States law.
On Feb. 18, the issue was heat-
edly debated before the Regents
in the Union Ballroom, with some
350 persons listening to the dr-
bate. After listening far several
hours to both sides, the follow-
ing day the Regents, in effect, re-
jectpd the OSS policy.
They decided that in the inter -
est of "uniformity" - all place-
ment offices on campus following
the same policy - a "compro-
mise" policy should be adopted.
Thus the Regents passed a
policy which would only exclude
corporations from using the
various campus placement of-
fices if they would be recruit-
ing persons for employment spe-
cifically in countries which sanc-
tion legal discrimination.
The OSS policy, which had
barred six corporations for racist
policies during the' two months
of its existence was thus watered
down to the extent that no cor-
poration has been barred since.
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You simply call us collect.
Dial (Area Code 313)
761-9900, and tell us where
you'll be living and when you'll
arrive. And we'll have your
phone connected on time.
If you're in town, visit our
business office at 324
East Huron, anytime between
8 AM to 5 PM daily. And
on Saturday, August 28th only,
we'll be open from 8 AM to
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