Being an editor on the Nittany Cub
should he a snap because all you have
to do is assign articles. You find
eight willing people, tell them that
they each do a page each week.
The only trouble with this plan
is there aren't eight willing people.
In fact there is barely even enough
news for eight pages each week.
But anytime we need help we can
go to Culburtson Lounge where all
the journalistic experts hang out.
One amateur critic suggested,
"Why don't you make the paper inter
esting?"
A valid point, I admit, so I
asked him for suggestions. He couldn't
think of anything specific, so I prod
ded him a little.
"Do you want more sports?" I
asked
"Well, uh, I don't know, uh,"
said my brilliant colleague.
"Do you think there should be
more student opinion, more letters
to the editor?" I asked.
He still stammered around, and
I could see he had nothing concrete
to offer.
EDITORIAL:
This is why it becomes necessary
to depend on the old reliable but ad
mittedly pale old news sources. There
is lack of support for the newspaper.
It is obnoxious to gripe about
a lack of virtue in the student body,
but in this case there is a real lack
of willingness to help.
It's always fun trying to find
someone to write for the sports page/
There are about 350 men on this campus,
but very few are willing to put a few
hours and some effort into writing
sports for this paper.
occasional people who promise to write
but never turn it in in black and white
But the Cub usually comes out in
some fashion. Then it's amazing to go'
to the cafeteria and see people actual
ly READING it:
But you know what these readers do
They look for typographical errors.
Please pardon us if you approach a
Cub staff member with your honest criti
cism and we laugh in your face.
How about doing a little work arou
here? We need typists, writers, busi
ness managers, reporters. In short, th
only critics we need are the ones who
are on hand to criticize the copy
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BEFORE it goes into print.
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