Cal State Polytechnic College - El Rodeo Yearbook (San Luis Obispo, CA)

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(jcal pcAt ftluA tanq Woundup GLENN ARTHUR Editor rpHE Goal Post is actually a cooper- ative publishing venture between the Publications department and the Ath- letic department. Advertising, which is the sole revenue other than sales, is handled by the publications advertising manager. Photographs of team mem- bers are taken by publication photog- raphers. After all expenses for engrav- ings, printing, photography, commis- sions to advertising solicitors and stu- dent salesmen are paid, the net profit is divided equally between Publications and the Athletic department. IN NOVEMBER the first and last issue of the 1946 Mustang Roundup ap- peared here on the campus. The would- be 25c monthly was greeted with polite but restrained enthusiasm. Many students volunteered reasons for the magazine’s short life. Some said the articles were too general and did not interest the majority. Others held that like similar college ‘mags’ the car- toons should be racy and plenty of them. The typical “kid campus” wanted more hot gossip and men’s room jokes like— “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t,” or “familiarity breeds.” These may have been contributing factors for the publications failure, but the real reason was the shortage of staff members for such an undertaking. HARVEY KRAMER Editor [28]

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EL MUSTANG STAFF (left to right'] First Row: Gu y Thomas, Bob Saunders, Eugene Kemper, John Patter- son, Herb Bundeson, Joe Griffin, Carl Taffera. Second Row: Carter Camp, Donald Miller, Otho Budd, Bill Roth, R. E. Kennedy, Glenn Arthur, William Nolan, Paul Tritenbach and John Columbini. [27] Paul Madge, drafted into the job of business manager, kept the paper sol- vent with good management and plenty of advertising. Madge doubled in brass as the assistant editor for most of the year. Bob Rowe, staff cartoonist, kept the customers happy with his drawings until he transferred to another college. John Patterson, editor, kept the student body aroused with the editorials which were alleged to be radical. Patterson maintains that at heart he is a Republi- can and that the editorials kept “Dear John” column full of letters. Bob Kennedy, advisor, was kept con- tinually busy laying oil on the troubled waters. Carrying a full time load in sev- eral other departments. Kennedy al- ways managed to keep the staff on the beam when assistance was needed, which was often. Going down the line for student con- stitutional reform and revision, and ev- er emphasizing the importance of effi- cient student government and extra- curricular activities, El Mustang was truly considered representative of the student body. PAUL MADGE Business Manager El Mustang, throughout the year, managed to keep a considerable staff busy most of the time, and so, perhaps, out of more serious mischief.

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Pchf (Zcifal Pictorial Jrosk Handbook ELEVEN thousand pictorials of Poly Royal publicity were sent out this year to every state in the United States and to many territories and foreign countries. These attractive eight page pictorials, containing stories and pic- tures of past Poly Royals, plus cover- age of this year’s events, were mailed free by Cal Poly students and faculty members early in April to their friends and relatives, inviting them to the “or- iginal country fair on a college campus.” Editing the pictorial is another of the many activities of the publications de- partment, but production costs of the pictorial are paid from the Poly Royal fund. PAUL MADGE Editor JIRO KAI Editor THIS booklet of information is publish- ed for the benefit of all new stu- dents. The primary purpose of editing this Handbook is to present to the in- coming student all essential information pertaining to the college curricula, and to Poly traditions and customs. All school songs and yells as well as the en- tire constitution are printed for the convenience of the students. No funds were received from the SAC to finance the venture in 1946, but advertising revenue paid the bulk of the bill and El Corral paid the balance for the privilege of distributing 700 copies in the store.