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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1977)
Newsletters flourish on ‘inside scoops’ Even if there aren't any up and coming "Woodsteins" writing for the various newspapers and bulletins pub lished by individual schools within the University, that doesn’t mean they don’t get the scoops. Of the 30 departments within the College of Arts and Sciences, only the math, psychology, biology and physics departments are known to publish weekly bulletins. How ever, in the professional schools and even the computing center, newspapers relevant to their specific fields are flourishing. Stories by ROBIN SMITH Of the Emerald The most common are referred to as “in-house sheets" by the University Relations office — listing up coming seminars, jobs, faculty activities — and are pub lished at “spasmodic rather than periodic” intervals. Available for faculty and staff is “What’s New in Edu cation,” which comes out bi-monthly, supplying informa tion on programs, speakers and conferences in the edu cation college and a weekly bulletin published by the music school. The "Webfoot Librarian" is printed two or three times a term, with 300 copies going to students, staff and alumni of the Librarianship school. According to Laurie Canfield, last term's editor of the Webfoot Librarian, “the paper’s purpose is to provide information for library students and librarians at schools elsewhere — in an information trade.” Also included in a typical issue, Canfield adds, are interviews, news of programs at the Eugene Public Lib rary as well as the University library, bibliographies of books on specific topics and some humorous pieces. There is also news on the recent decision to close the librarianship school The next issue will focus on student input and testimony from persons involved including alumni and the closure committee. The “Webfoot Librarian" has been operating since 1966, “and hopefully we ll be around as long as the School of Librarianship is around,” Canfield says. The format of the newsletter has changed each term with each new editor. Generally, it takes 10 to 12 hours to put an issue together. One student solicits articles and other students do the typing and mimeograph work. Students who work on the newsletter generally have no prior experience in newspaper writing or lay-out and they do not get academic credit for their work. John Eldridge is a Graduate Teaching Fellow who is paid to organize De Bug, the newspaper of the Computing Center. Eldridge's work involves not only writing the arti cles for De Bug, but programming the computers which print the newspaper as well. “The run-off program makes the whole process of editing incredibly easy,” Eldridge says. To those who have no prior experience with computers, that point may seem debatable. The first step is to create a “source file" on the Cathode Ray Terminal (CRT). This involves typing in commands that will enter the news information. The ad vantage of using this particular computer is that it is fast and clear, explains Eldridge. Departmental newsletters and bulletins are vital parts of the University's print communications. Several depart ments and schools on campus depend on these publica tions for in-house information and trends. Students within However, to print the first draft Eldhdge switches to a Diablo 1620 Line Printer, because of the flexibility inher ent in its different type styles. Before this first draft, El dhdge has no idea how the paper will look because it is “inside the computer — what comes out will be a sur prise.” Staff directors in the computing center then proof read this first draft for errors, which can then be program med out in the final editing and reformatted, on the CRT The final copy is printed on the Diablo and sent to the University printing office where enough copies are made to distribute through the computing center. Eldridge sees the primary function of De Bug as a "source of news and information for users of the comput ing center and says it is "designed to give information in a palatable and hopefully amusing manner.” He adds that there is an extra benefit—“it also brings the staff together in a joint venture to continually rearticulate policy, which breeds cooperation among the staff." De Bug contains news on computer center policy, equipment, programs, announcements, problems and suggestions. To make the newsletter more visually in teresting, there are also cartoons drawn by Eldridge in terspersed among the articles. Photo by Perry Gasktl the various departments and schools usually supply the bulk of work necessary on the publications, although printing is normally left to the University 's printing office Dissent is the newspaper of the Student Bar Associa tion. Two hundred and fifty copies are printed in an offset process by the University printing office on legal-size pages and it comes out "more or less every two weeks, when the law school is in session,” according to Pete Fells of the association. A typical issue contains reports of committee meet ings, editorials, recipes, student government programs within the law school and “some parodies of law student life," Fells says. The Dissent's last issue contained a front-page article on law school faculty salaries. Approximately six students work on the newspaper and each receives a minimal “token salary." Graffiti is made available every Monday morning to students, faculty and alumni in the CSPA school. Inside it’s tab-size pages is printed anything newsworthy and relevant to the CSPA school. Job opportunities, faculty workshops, student events and information concerning upcoming speakers are included. The allied arts and architecture school also adds its newsletter to the numbers being produced at the Univer sity. The Avenue is a student publication involving a staff of eight students and two faculty advisers and includes graphics and appraisals of local architecture as well as upcoming events. 3c COPIES KINKOS OVERNIGHT NO MINIMUM UNBOUND 1128 Alder 344-7894 Also in Corvallis SHAMPOO with Warren Beatty 150 Sci. 7 and 9:30 F June 3 Sat June 4 Director of Alert Salary $95 per month for the academic year; $54 per month for the summer Qualifications: Must be able to coordinate several projects simultaneously as wfcll as coor dinate other related projects performed or de veloped by volunteers. Leadership qualities as well as general under standing of the problems are necessary. The reason for this is because ALERT selves diver sified needs erf the physically handicapped. Must have some background in finance, office or business management skills Must be able to speak well before groups, coordinate and supervise activities of the office and volunteers Must have the ability to commit time on a regularly scheduled basis Need to know how to set up and maintain a referral center. Where to Apply: Jan Eisenbeisz. Room 472 Oregon Hall Applications due June 6. 1977. ALERT is an equal opportunity employer ‘Avenu’ aims to create environmental forum Perhaps the most energetically produced and visually interesting of the volumes of newsletters pro duced by campus schools and departments is Avenu, a student publication of the architecture and allied arts school. Barbara Corff, a student in in terior architecture, is the editor and she manages a staff of eight students with faculty advisors Brian Carter and Mike Utsey. Carter, a visiting professor from England, has written for several architectural magazines and is now teaching a class entitled ‘‘Ar chitectural Publications,” which al lows credit hours for students HOW PASSE Don’t pass notes in class.Get personal In r the ODE classifieds W,-'A. working on the ‘Avenu.’ Skip Allen, Avenu' staff member, says, “Brian Carter’s experience has given the paper a very helpful boost.” Carter sees the Avenu’ as a “ready-made linkage between the students, faculty and the architec tural profession” and emphasizes the connection between the school and architectural practice. The ‘Avenu’ is supported by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and in exchange the news paper publishes the Oregon chapter’s minutes, announce ments and other features. Corff stresses that the Avenu is “under no one’s thumb” and enjoys com plete independence. The majority of Avenu’s pages, which are double the size of the standard 8V2 x 11 ’’ sheets, are fil led with graphics, drawings and photographs, along with critical appraisals of local architecture. Included in Avenu’s last issue is an interview with two architects at their office in San Francisco and excerpts from a travel journal, ac companied with drawings, by an architecture student recently re turned from Europe. Whole pages are devoted to the many lectures, projects and events organized by the architec ture school. The entire middle sec tion of the latest issue of Avenu serves as a pull-out guide to his toric and modern buildings in Eugene — for anyone interested in learning more about their man-made environment. In addition to managing the Avenu staff, Corff keeps the books and solicits advertising, which pays for materials and duplication expenses. The AIA pays for print ing expenses. Once a month Corff has each member of her staff write a story and each is then typed and sent to the University bookstore to be re duced in size. The staff pastes them on to lay-out sheets and they are sent out once again to a local printer to be copied. One thousand copies are then ready to be distributed among students and members of the AIA. Avenu staff members see the need to “enhance the credibility of the paper,” so that people “will be encouraged to contribute.” Only then can the Avenu live up to the claim on the letterhead — “A free-access forum for the ex change of ideas and the explora tion of environmental issues." Carter also expresses the need for this exchange of ideas among the different departments in the school. “There's a lot happening in this school — there are 600 to 700 students in architecture alone — and the community itself that the Avenu can cover," she says. She adds that because the Avenu staff worked diligently this year trying to get feedback and support from the students and staff they have established enough credibility to evoke in terest in their work by other schools and architects around the Northwest. A direct result of this reputation is the possibility of gaining subject hour credit, rather than the pres ent elective status for working on the Avenu. In this new spirit, and because the Avenu is published by the ar chitecture school, its staff is plan ning a review of all four issues that have been printed this term in an effort to elicit some feedback. The review is scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m., room to be posted.
