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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1978)
Stop the presses College newspaper provides learning experien Staff members of the College weekly student newspaper, The Print, have a tough row to plow. Turning story ideas into con crete material and visual inci dents into eye-catching photo- By Cyndi Bacon Of The Print graphy, isn't an easy job for any newspaper staff -- student or professional. The nucleus of The Print, located in Trailer B, is the people working behind it to develop it into an objective, timely and interesting end-product. A newspaper must start with the objective of bringing current news of interesttothecommunity it serves. The Print staff is nodifferent. It is dedicated to getting the College news out to its con sumer — students and staff — and relies heavily on the editorial board for its objective organiza tion. Wednesday is the beginning of a work week for the staff. The editorial board, comprised of Randy Clark, advisor; Happie Thacker, editor; Cyndi Bacon, news editor; Scott Starnes, copy editor; Lisa Chitty, arts editor. Ann Breyne, sports editor; and Brian Snook, photo editor., meet at noon to plan for the next weeks issue. Story ideas, editorial subjects, newspaper policy and criticism, photo ideas, and staff problems are discussed during this hour- long meeting. The main product that comes from this meeting is in the form of four "run-sheets", or assignment sheets. Each run sheet, one each for sports, news, arts and photography, consists of a list of stories and photos to be finished for the next issue. These stories and photos are then assigned to staff reporters and photographers who are Jim McCaffrey, Shawn Parkhurst, Randy Frank and Mary Mad land, reporters, and Lorraine Stratton, Sam Baer and Ted McKenna, photographers. Al though the editorial board is responsible for brainstorming and planning issues, the Print staff is so small that it is also put in the capacity of report er. Deadline for stories and pho tos is Friday at 3 p.m. and Mon day at noon for late-breaking items and activities that have happened over the weekend. Stories are copyread for grammer, spelling, libel, journal istic style, readability and good story, content and format. Leads may be re-written or the story may be sent back to the re porter for a re-write, for more information, to change awkward writing, or leads, etc. When copyedited, stories are measured for length and then sent to Clairmont hall to staff typesetters Gladys Epp and Mary Cuddy. Type is set on an IBM Composer in justified col umns. Simultaneously, editors are planning for page space and all ocating pages to each section arts, news, sports-depending on inches of copy and importance of story. Each editor is in charge of page layout of the sections on Tuesday. This is dope on pap er, called a dummy sheet, which is a scaled down version of the layout sheets used later in pro duction. Headlines are also written at this time and photo graphs chosen and sized. On Tuesday evening the staff paste up the newspaper, justified copy, headlines and photographs are waxed (acts as an adhesive) and pasted up on layout sheets according to the page dummy sheets. Copy is proofread for spelling and grammar mistakes and the typesetters correct them. When paste-up is complete, the layout sheets are sent to BME Web Press, Salem, Wed nesday morning to be printed on news print paper,® stacked and tied into pun The finished Print is on r stands at the College, Or City, and other outlying by Wednesday at 1 p.rrfl I is about the time the ■ board has finished the p® stages of the following® newspaper. An improtant aspect® paper, besides the ed| board, reporters, photo® and typesetters, are the ■ manager, Paul Byers, of® sonnel, Tommi Davids® Crystal Tompkins, and ® duction manager, Cudt® a typesetter). The business manage! is ad sales and reven® money-maki ng aspect of fl er. He/she is also in ch® the design of each ad, afl eating page space to adv® before the editors lay oin page dummies in their sec® The production man® 9 charge of paste-up of according to the busine® ger's ad dummies and ha® layouts ready - ads onl page numbers in place fl the staff is involved wit® up on Tuesday evenings.® Office personnel hail mailing of the newspaper! scribers. They also® phones, take messages ® staff, file and do general procedures. Taking journalism at fl ege and working on Th] is a very creative and re® I experience for students. Print staff members hl opportunity to receive® job training in writing, edi photography, ad sales, mi ment, page layout and™ tion. On a professional paper these on-the-job skill imperative. The student newspaper pathway to learning the® that will be needed whe® ing in the professional® Woodward and Bernstein,] we cornel
