Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Fran Klocke, editor-in-chief, diligently at work on the qu0 Roger Goebel reads his famous editorial to Phil Sandstrom. Newspapers should be a maximum of information and a minimum of comment. :Cobden Each year a new editor-in-chief is appointed to take the reigns of the QUADRANGLE. It is the responsibility of this man to decide and direct the editorial policy and operation of the newspaper. The position, if it is to be truly held, is a lonely one. Despite the pressures of those who surround him, the editor-in-chief must maintain his newspaper as an impartial vehicle of student news. It is very easy to combine comment with straight news reporting and escape criticism. To become the active crusader for one faction in favor of another is to swim with the current. But to stay immovable when bom- barded from oil sides by demands and personal preiudices takes strength peculiar only to the responsible man. These are the requisites of the editor-in-chief. If they are met, he has fulfilled his responsibility in this office. As the presses rolled to a stop in February of 1955 the campus became aware of a new event. There had been a change in the QUADRANGLE. A new editor had been ap- L pointed. With this editor came a deluge of something which Fran Klocke in a more formal pose, had been often overlooked in college newspapers Factual newspaper reporting. During this, its thirtieth year of publication, the QUADRANGLE matured. Its pages became a reflection of the entire campus rather than a segment of it. News of campus activities was made known to all who stopped to read the past thirty issues of the Quadrangle. But what of the news behind the news? What of the hours and the work which were expended upon each issue? Let us

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Dinner guests at the club. Dick Boden, sports editor. cious quarters and modern equipment of the MunhaHanite made cker production of the book. Pat Troy, one of 1he more attractive members of the staff. George Daelemans, photo edifor. '- Mario Martinez, attempting to gei 1he boys into a uniform group.

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Monday nights on the Quad were work nights. Mike Marina stealing ideas for his Asides column. steal back in time to a Quad night, and see what was going on as the news was in 'the making. The date is Monday, any Monday. As usual, the Quad night starts at one o'clock in the afternoon. Gaining admittance through the perpetually locked Quad door, we are staggered by the breath-taking scene that commands our viewing. We are standing in the midst of a temple dedicated to the fourth estate. Upon surveying the interior, we notice the three main walls of genuine brick. They are complemented by a fourth wall of antique beaver-boarcl, which is finished in a fiat coat of greenwpaint. The interior is further enhanced by desks and chairs of real wood which has been extracted from genuine trees in a forest. Perhaps the last things to be noticed are the . . Security First Filing Cabinet, typewriters which have thirty years- of newspaper tradition behind them, and assorted papers, some as old as the typewriters. A noise in the far corner of the room attracts our attention. There, in the corner, is a member of the fourth estate dili- gently pounding out a masterpiece on one of the tradition worn typewriters. Let's walk over and, though it may seem impolite, read over his shoulder. The masterpiece is unveiled. Now is the time for all good men . . . Copy Assignments for this week by Patrick J. Garvey, News Editor . . . Listen youse guize, initial yer name an der poop. If yer don't there will be trouble . . . and how! Of course you realize, as well as I, that the stories are due tonight. This is a revised poop sheet, which was done for our benefit. on Pochintesta, co-managing editor.