 | The Cavalier daily Wednesday, September 10, 1969 |  |
The Cavalier Daily
Has Openings
For New Staffers
By Peter Shea
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer
A typical day at The Cavalier
Daily actually starts when the advertising
staff, led by Business Manager
Roy P. Bishop, sets up the ads
from local and national merchants
and lays out where they will be
placed on each page(see photo
below).
Once the job is completed, the
ad staff moves into the composing
room where it pastes the advertisements
on the CD's paste-up sheets.
About 1:30 each afternoon the
news, sports, and features departments
swing into action. Page editors
assign their stories to their
respective staffs under the eye of
Managing Editor Rod MacDonald,
and begin to collect leads to use for
the day's news.
The literary staffs work all afternoon
while the Editor Bob Cullen
compiles his research for the day's
editorials, which he usually writes
but will occasionally assign to
ambitious staffers.
At 5 p.m. the news editor,
editor, managing editor, and city editor
for the day, go into Publisher
Chuck Hite's office, where a news
conference (above right) is held to
determine how each story will be
handled and where it will be placed.
Other questions, such as upcoming
events and managerial decisions,
may also come up at the meeting.
Then the city editor and the
features city editor, each of whom
works one day per week, move into
the composing room (right) with
their page layouts. Headlines are
written and set on the CD's headliner
while the city staff works
furiously to paste up the sheets in
place and without error.
Finally, anytime from 9 p.m. to
midnight, The Cavalier Daily is sent
3 a.m. it will be driven back, and
delivered around the Grounds by
the Circulation staff, ready for
another day's public.
Photos By Tom Duncan
Probably the most pleasant
problem facing the entering first-year
man is the question of what to
do with all the new-found free time
college life offers. Opportunities
abound to take an active part in
University life and no activity
promises a more satisfying career
than The Cavalier Daily.
An entirely student-run organization,
The Cavalier Daily is published
five times a week, Monday
through Friday, and has a circulation
of 10,000. Recent years have
seen the University newspaper
expand its entire operation and
further changes this year will
sharpen The Cavalier Daily's crucial
need for dedicated staff members.
New members are needed for
every department of the publication.
The news department is
searching for reporters to search
out and write the news stories every
day. These openings enable new
students to learn more about the
who make news at the University.
Writers with a knack for invention,
a flair for reviewing, or the
ability to analyze are in constant
demand for the features staff.
For the retired high school
athlete who still longs for the
excitement of the sports arena, he
can still be with the action by
joining the sports department. All
that is required is a little sports
knowledge and slight writing ability.
In the business end of The
Cavalier Daily, students are needed
to solicit advertisements, lay out
the ads and handle the journal's
large daily circulation. Being part of
this facet of the newspaper's
operation offers invaluable business
experience, and admen earn commissions
from their sales.
Finally, those with an artistic
eye and a flair for the unusual can
find a spot with the photography
department (See photo above).
Many changes are seen for the
newspaper this year. Some issues
will -be increased from the usual
four pages to six to allow for
greater coverage of world events
and deeper investigation into local
issues. A revision of the paper's
format is also being considered.
But to make these improvements,
the staff will have to grow,
and the first-year men will play a
big part in the expansion. Within a
year they may become eligible for
paid staff positions and during
summers or after graduation may
be able to win awards and jobs with
national newspapers.
Last year two staff members,
Charles A. Hite and Rod
MacDonald, earned 500 scholarships
for summer work in journalism.
Editor Bob Cullen spent his
summer with the New York Times,
and other staffers joined papers in
their home towns. So for an
interesting activity at the University
that also offers monetary and
career opportunities, try The
Cavalier Daily.
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