Thursday, Septembee 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY _P )sage. Nine Thursday, September 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY p age. Nine Write-on tradition at 420 IMaynard 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 1 a ? 4I 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- Head quarters for Sony Tape Recorders and...Tape ' Everyday discount prices on blank recording tape A large selection of tape }ti i: I When it's time to give a dynamic gift