Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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l'l'BLlSlllNli ASSUYIATIUN age Nf'1'f'r1ty-fnltr lfroni Iilllll' Kennedy, Kenseth tl'rr.v, p, Stockwell tNrr'.l liuwk 11'on'.' Mr. Yyhitbeek, Kennedy llrlifl'-1,I'l'N. l, Mrs. Roberts, Luuko. The Publishing Association is tl1e governing body controlling all under- graduate publications. lts membership comprises three faculty members of per- manent standing and five students in the junior and senior classes selected by the entire college. Primarily its duties are financial: secondarily it serves in the capacity of advisor and on rare occasions invokes its powers of censorship. No similar body on campus is as 1m1cl1 maligned or misunderstood. Clear- thinlqing students will understand that it is the far-sightedness of this group that prevents college publications from going on the rocks with a natural after-math of debts and disgrace both to Bates and the student editors involved. As for its ap- pointments of editors either to news-paper. year book. or literary magazine, by general precedent the Association usually accepts the recommendation of the out- going editor: it retains, however. the constitutional right to reject any editor's recommendation when his candidate can 11ot meet valid requirements of experi- ence. ability. and constructive leadership. The Association meets at the discretion of its president. Achievement is quietly recognized when the campus publications meet their expenses and avoid immature quarreling with one another and the college population. No member of this organization 11eed expect thanks for his efforts. and only those with the thin, bright faces whose satisfactions are not measured by popular applause should express willingness to serve. As for its value to the college-it is once more this group that assures Bates of healthy, enlightened publications financially secure.