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Ninety-one years
of Emerald history
The Oregon Wtmkty was fits! pub
lished by I ho Eutuxian, Laurcan and
PhiUilaglan Sc* leties Vol 1. No 1 op
pti.ircd .to Monday, E«b 12, 1900
\Vhi'ii llu* newspaper resumed publi*
i at ion alter llu: summer break on Oil 1,
10(H), K became a publication o( the As
sociated Students of the University u(
Oregon, which it remained until 1952
in the tail of 1000 the paper began
publishing twlei! a week and the name
was changed to the Oregon Emerald In
1014 it iH'giitt publishing three times a
week When publication was finally
stepped up to five times a week in the
tall of 1020, the newspaper lie iinm the
Or tty on Dally Emerald.
between Sept 211. 1052 and April 7,
1071 the Emerald was published bv the
Student Publications board of the Uni
versity of Oregon
A Her more ihun a year of planning
and preparation to make the ODE inde
pendent of the University, the Student
Publications board was abolished on
April 8, 1071 and replaced by a semi
uUlonomuus organization called the Or
egon Dally Emerald Board of Directors
The purpose of this bo«iy was lo tem
porarily publish the ODE for several
months while making arrangements to
form an independent publishing corpo
ration which would bo financially and
legally separate from the University.
On June 29, 1971 the ODE Board of
Directors adopted a resolution to estab
lished tho Oregon Daily Emerald Pub
lishing Company, Inc.
On Ocl. 2l>, 1971 that organization
came into a state of legal existence un
der tho provisions of the Oregon Non
profit Corporation Act. The first meeting
of the Board of Directors of the new cor
poration was held in ihe EMU on Nov.
2. 1971
EMERALD
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ministration and llm paper." fi<* said
' Ihe administration al the University
was uf tie opinion that it would not hi- .1
had idea to absolve themselves of any re
spunsibiht v, herans said
'They said. 'You're on your own. arid
you i an fare the 1 < uisi-quem es. just like
the big pis >p If
I! : bin II said cutting tile legal ties be
twe.-u the Hnurnld and the University
m.ide it easier lor tlie administration to
ileal with tin1 stale hoard and the l.eglsia
lure wh.t ri ijaesleais about tile /mere/d s
t ontent arose
Although It helped lii.it the admtnislra
lion would throw no otistai les in the in 1
t-r.lit s path to indepeoderir e, Kerens said
the paper still fared a number of stum
filing him ks
One was eliminated whi'li the i Ml
which at ted as .t hill rolleilor. gave, the
I mom Id a clean slate hi absorbing thou
sands of dollars in past debt, Kerims said,
which allowed the paper to apply lor a
bank loan
With independence also entne greater
liability The University and state board
would no longer absorb the responsibility
or the tost of any potential legal action,
whii h meant the Knwruld had to pur
1 base libel and liability insurance
We yvere able to secure the insurance
for a reasonable rate,'' herans said "The
insurance agent salt! it would he very
hard to prove libel against u student pub
In ation tier ause no one thinks it's a 1 red
ihle sOliri e "
Additional 1 ost came to the newspaper
because the independent Emerald ysas no
longer part of the University, so it could
no longer t.ike any of its serve es
The biggest service the pre indrpen
dent I'm oral d received free-of-cost was
rent lor the paper s office space, then in
Room tot Allen Mall
llushnell said the (taper considered
renting office space in a house off cam
pus. hut decided it needed to he "at the
iusirt of the University
Thai heart was the l.’MU, where the
inter.ild moved In l‘»7:i to its current
home in Suite too, occupying space once
used by the ASl'()
Another economic change, one that
was part of the motivation to establish an
independent t'nu’mld. was that the paper
would he able to at cumulate whatever
profits exist at the eml of each fiscal year
Mils change gave the Emerald growth
potential, allowing the paper to purchase
new equipment and modernize its pro
duction methods periodically
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Emerald
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20th Anniversary Issue
One of the first changes in production
was the setup of the Emt'rdltf s own pro
dilution shop Previously, tfie University
printing sliop did the production
"With our own production lac titties,
when stories happened we were able to
reai t to them more quickly." Hushnell
s.mi "Wo had control of our own destiny
bis ause our deadlines were more flexi
ble "
Although the split from the University
i uusi d no tensions with the administra
tion. the Sc hool of Journalism was less
than pleased, Kerens said.
Kit,ms said the spill from the journ
ism school ac tually began in tin- lia'ais
with thn upsurge in student activism
“Them had always been an old bn. s
network that, had an informal i onto: I
over I he newspaper," he said.
Up into the 1900s, the Enirruhl s! f
mostly consisted of students who h i
been encolingi-d In, journalism laeui’..
Kerens said Then more activist-urn nt I
students began to join the stall, tippi
j the halaiK:e
"The journalism school kind of lost
| effective control over the paper, lie sn
"No small amount of tension evuh I
! from that
Kerans said that tension made itself felt
on the old publications hoard, which h
a significant number of journalism lat i
ty on it
"It was a very, very chilly almosphi :
in Allen Hall," he said.
At that point, the stall decided that I
cause it had been running a dilfen : t
kind of press than what the journalism
school had m mind, the paper might
well go Independent, Kerans said
Before the limeruId's independuni ■
tiie newspaper’s management would sign
up for a one-credit critique class The
journalism school dean would sit down
with them during lunch on l-'ridays and
critique the week's papers
“The critique was in terms of what
journalism educators thought aliout the
product we wore producing," Bushnell
said, adding that the focus was more on
style and grammar than on content
Kerans said some faculty on campus
felt that the journalism school should
have held tighter control over what the
Emi'nihl published.
"The 'led' newspaper was the solution
at a number of colleges," ho said "It hap
period at a lot of private colleges and at a
lot of public colleges and universities
"On tins campus, it was not the major
tty opinion, but it was an openly held po
sition "
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/.if left 19/9-00 shill mombors
John Healy and Jody Murray
wont cra/y with perforated com
puler tape, stringing old f mi'i
aid stories everywhere fop
the 19/8-79 stall at work amid
much clutter Near loll Handy
Shilts. managing editor in
1974-75 and author ol And tho
Band Played On, a book telling
ol the early days ol tho AIDS
epidemic
Hushnell said uvon alter tho EmcruId
achioved independence, tin1 paper man
aged tn maintain a glvo-and take relation
ship with the journalism school, often go
ing into journalism classes to recruit stall
members.
"I think we had a better working rela
tionship than tho paper does now," hi;
said.
Along with the independent Enwrald
came tho hiring of a non-student general
manager, who was relegated to the papers
business affairs only and would have no
say in the content of the publication,
Hushnell said
"The whole Idea was to strengthen .inti
por|)utuiito the role the college press
could play," Hushnoll said "It should («•
a place for some experimentation.
"Wo did things that the professional
newspapers weren't doing, hut are sum
lar to what they are doing now."
It is for that reason the need lor stu
dent journalists to have a forum for ex
perunentation that Hushnoll opposes
the idea of college newspaper advisers
"It seems that an adviser would put the
newspaper back to the point we were trv
ing to get out of,” he said
‘It seems that an adviser would
put the newspaper back to the
point we were trying to get out of. ’
Art Bushnell,
Emerald editor, 1971-72,
Vice president, Reuters news agency
1981
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