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
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Crystal Tompkins, and ®
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up on Tuesday evenings.®
Office personnel hail
mailing of the newspaper!
scribers.
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phones, take messages ®
staff, file and do general
procedures.
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ege and working on Th]
is a very creative and re®
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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®
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