The Oregon weekly., June 15, 1908, Image 5

unions in the West, the question has
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been decided by either giving the editor credit, one makes credit'discret?
lH’.inonth and h,s reporters are award
a percentage of the profits of the paper with the faculty and only four £ £
C' edits-
or a fiat salary from the students, or
1 hese instances cited are but
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neither credit nor salarv
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college credit as a remuneration from
from this number grant the e d i , . 2 ' i ' o "
- he SUnd which is usual on the
the faculty.
salary and credit while some
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The Oregon Weekly has this year an engraved m o „ X v^tch 7ob
printed thirty-six editions, averaging addition for his labors.
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’ave adoPted the custom, the
approximately six thousand words to
It may sound well to argue like cer I niversity of Oregon need not hes-
the issue. For each one of these edi- tain members of th e 'ia ^ k v M A “ U - T ‘° fa"
'ine' h Cannot be
tions the man who has been held res-1 trie
t own reJ „ the i faculty
that vir-
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editor of a col-
ponsible for the subject matter of the this is a*reward t'h u 'f '’"4 "eVertheless lege paper is not doing college work.
paper, the
literary style
style and
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the editor-in-chief.
than must necessarily be devoted to
At the University of North Dakota
many other college courses. On the
For three years the present editor
is given
given the
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has labored on the staff and has noth- his labors. The Univershv of Mo° other hand it can he said that the con­
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verse ot both these propositions is true
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Twenty-two college editors throughout the west are treated as foliows:
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University of Idaho
No salarv
No credit
University of Wyoming
No salary
No credit
University of Wisconsin
No salary
No credit. Conditions however make
the new editor hopeful.
University of Washington
Granting of credit is wholly at the discretion of department of English and
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Rhetoric.
Washington State College
No credit or salary yet, blit application lias been made for credit.
University of North Dakota
One credit for the year
University of Montana
Two credits for the year
Pacific University
Three credits for the year
Montana Agricultural College
Four credits for the year
University of Nebraska (Daily)
Editor-in-chief gets five credits, managing editor three credits and report­
ers one credit each for the year.
Purdue University
Editor gets a commission on profits in addition to three semester credits.
University of Michigan (Daily)
Editor gets a salary of $100 and reporters four yearly credits.
University of Iowa (Daily)
Editor gets salary of $50 per month and reporters four yearly credits.
I niversity of South Dakota
Editor divides all the profit with the manager.
University of Missouri
Editor divides all the profits with manager.
University of Nevada
Editor gets commission on profits.
Colorado Agricultural College
Editor gets 60 per cent of the profits of the paper
Editor gets salary of $100 per year.
Oregon Agricultural College
Stanford University
Editor of Daily Palo Alto gets a salary of $50 per month.
Editor of Weekly Chapparell gets a salarv of $20 per month.
Stanford University
Editor of Sequoia (Monthly) gets a commission on profits not to exceed $25
Stanford University
per month.
Editor of Daily Illini gets a commission amounting last year to $750.
fhat a college journalist should ask University at Forest Grove, Oregon, college erdit.
No on will deny the fact that the
for credit is not at all presuniptious. allows her journalist three credits.
Every bit of the work he does is of Montana Agricultural College awards ( )regon Weekly editorship is the most
an eminently practical nature and is him four. The editor of the Nebraskan, thankless job which an < )regon student
strictly in accord with the courses in ( Daily) at the University of Nebraska, can hold. Managers of athletic teams
journalism offered bv most of the lead­ gets five credits, the managing editor as well as players work hard during
three credits, and the reporters one their respective seasons, but their seas
ing I niversities in the West.
ons are all short compared with the
A brief glance at the accompanying hour each.
work on the newspaper and in addition
table will suffice to prove that the cus­ . At Purdue University the editor-in-
to the honor of their positions a re­
toms which prevail at other Univer­ chief of the Exponent gets a commis­ ward for their labors is always gained
sities are far better than our own in sion on the profit: of the paper in ad­ by frequent commendation from the
meeting the needs in this line. Re- j dition to three semester credits. At press and in numerous trips to other
cently the retiring editor of the Ore­ the University of Michigan the editor places when contests are held with sis­
gon Weekly made an investigation by of the Inlander gets a salary of $100 ter institutions.
correspondence on this subject and his per year and even his reporters receive The editor, poor fellow, gets nothing,
findings revealed the fact that out of four hours per week in college credit. no salary, no credit, no commendation,
twenty two college papers from which The editor of the Daily Iowan at the
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replies were received, seventeen either University of Iowa gets a salary of $50