Editorials
What happened to the Lion’s Tale?
By Jerry Trently, Jr.
Even Lee laccoca wouldn’t
have wanted it.
It lasted two terms and disap
peared, but reasons for the Lion’s
Tale’s demise came from the pro
duction and financial burdens it
placed on it’s father publication,
and apparent lack of student
interest.
In its March 29, 1983 issue,
Capitol Times published a survey
giving readers the choice to vote
to keep its weekly newsletter,
Lion’s Tale, or allow it to become
a brief edit in Capitol Campus’
history.
As had been expected by many
on the Times staff, response to
the survey was exceptionally poor,
resulting in Lion’s Tale’s
discontinuance.
Already burdended with Times
responsibilities, no one on the
larger monthly wanted editorship
of the Tale, which had been done
previously by students on in
dependent study.
“I never really enjoyed doing
it,” said former Tale editor,
Joseph Guberman, ‘‘but it helped
me fulfill my graduation re
quirements through independent
times
Jerome J. Trently, Jr.
Kimberly C. Bush . . .
Sean C. Ferry
James P. Kushlan ..
Jeffrey G. Shatzer..
Robert H. Rejmanlak
Michele Haley
Al Lee
Jeanne A. Ballets
Thomas O. Dekle
Sharon L. DePalma
James E. Fitzroy
Timothy Hagan
Francoise G. Hultzapple
Beatrice Kessler
Harry D. Lucas
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Thursday, September 22, 1983
Vol. 18, No. 1
Editorial Board
Contributing staff
study credits.”
Lion’s Tale, conceived after
SGA budget ratification, had no
budget of its own, meaning
Times’ funding was drained to
support it.
Based on last year’s production
costs, a weekly newsletter under
the same format as last year’s
would cost its publisher about $4O
per issue. Publishing on weeks
not scheduled by the Times,
Lion’s Tale would cost an
estimated $B4O annually to
produce.
Capitol Times is a news
magazine covering a variety of
topics aimed at a broader base
than more specialized news briefs.
Executive Editor
Business Manager
■ ■. Advertising Manager
... Production Manger
.. .. Photography Editor
Sports Editor
Events Editor
Advisor
Shirley V. Marquet
Linda A, McCarty
Michael Markle
Tony G. Perry
Betsy J. Sheehan
Donald R. Strausburger
Angelo M. Vecchlo
George P. Yanoshlk, Jr.
Feature stories done in past
Times’ editions, like those on
Drs. Rooney and Smith, and in
depth stories like last year’s SGA
election coverage and this issue’s
coverage of the Dr. Gilmore
story, require far more space to
be done properly than a weekly
or bi-weekly could provide.
I agree a need exists for an in
termediate news source to cover
smaller events occurring between
Times issues, but let’s not
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penalize the monthly’s finance
and personnel departments to
produce it.
Let’s charter a new organize
tion, give it its own budget to
produce a weekly newsletter, a
keep it as a completely separai
entity from Capitol Times.
Chrysler met the challenge,
the tale of a Capitol Campus’
weekly has neither ended or
begun.
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