Finlandia University - Yearbook (Hancock, MI)

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HILL, VVAISANEN, COLE--INKLINGS EDITORS Vlfith the beginning of the 1947-48 school-year under a new president, Suomi College's student news-publication, the Inklings, also came! out under new administrative rules. At the beginning of the year, when by tradition the editor of the Inklings is chosen, the motion was put before the student body to place two co-editors, rather than a single editor, at the head of the publication's staff. The student body approved the motion, and the Co-editors of this year's Inklings were of- ficially appointed. . i Conferring often with the college president, the Co-editors rapidly built up the internal machinery of the paper and developed its editorial and operational policy. ' t Since its inception in 1939, the Inklings had seldom come off the presses with more than four pages of material, and had appeared irregularly from four to eight times each school year. But now, under new and more liberal adminis- tration rules governing sale of advertising, size, frequency of publication, and other operational procedures, the Inklings immediately jumped to an average size of ten pages. A large and able staff, backed financially by the successful selling of ad- vertising by the Business Manager, worked hard on every issue of the paper. Besides current events, they incorporated in its columns numerous other features of more lasting interest. The new large size, together with the blending of im- mediate news with many special feature pages and columns, made the 1947-48 Inklings a highly unique and readable publication which in format was part- magazine, part-newspaper. i ' Page fifty-four penal throi This payn subst all

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- v r :isis Q ,fv- tfl 31.1.35 vi fb rift? ' Q fi- I ,, -G 1 4 in un. -- . 'y 5191301-1 552155 mmf? dba, :vim ynf'-5,5 5 at as . we an 1, , 5' I A .1 ag., I -J' ,aff KUUSISTO, HANNINEN, TAMMINEN-ANULOGUE EDITORS For the first time in its history, also, the Inklings became financially inde- pendent of the college. The Inklings of other years had operated financially through the Student Fund and 'through special grants from the Book Concern. This year's paper organized its own Treasury, and paid for itself by advertising, payment of a special fee by the College for each student, and by the selling of subscriptions throughout the Synod and among the Alumni. Two subscription campaigns, one by means of letters and posters in the Synod, and the other by means of letters to the Alumni, were highly successful and boosted the circulation of -the paper to an all-time high. A Editorially, the Inklings throughout the year advocated strongly. the ex- pansion of Suomi, with this as its goal, the staff worked hardto shape the Inklings into a medium through which the importance of this goal could be impressed upon its readers. 2 , In an off-the-record manner, also, the staff worked continually for the ex- pansion' of the college. With the president's sanction, all the ministers in the Synod and the members of the college's Board of Directors were speclally con- tacted regarding an expansion program, as were the Alumni. - V ' In addition to promoting the cause of Suomi directly, the staff handled much of the more indirect publicity material. The bulk of the press material dealing with news of the college, such as sports write-ups, choir write-ups, CtC-, which went to other newspapers was the work of the Inkl-zngs staff. The large and talented staff, the encouraging attitude of the admlnistration, and the fine spirit displayed by both was the combination YVh1Cl1 spelled success for this year's Inklings. Page fifty-five