Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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tY1.e:y1i-zvi' li. Tnotvr . . clzuirnntrz of' llze hoard 'rt'nr:N'r publications at the Okla- homa QX. and Xl. tlollege are under the direction ol' the Board ol' l'ublica- tions. For the past two years this board has been set up and functioned under regulations laid down by the administration ol' the college. This spring an amendment to the Student Constitution providing l'or this organ- ization was submitted to a vote of the student body and ratilied. Three publications are under the direct supervision of the Board. They' are the yearbook, The Bedskiu: the daily newspaper, The Daily' U'flol- legiau: and the humor magazine, The Aggievator. Beally there are three separate boards, one for each ol' these publications. but with overlapping memberships. There are eight members of each board with six ol' these members serv- ing on all three boards. These six members consist ol' two elected stu- dents and l'our faculty members. The faculty members are the llead ol' the College Publications Department, who is chairman ol' the board: the dean ol' men: and two members appointed by the president ol' the college to serve at his direction. The other two members ofeach Board are students e the editor and business manager ol' the publica- ..73o.cvLd af .9'uEZicatian . . . By CLEMENT E. TROUT tion under consideration. The general manager ol' student publieations is the secretary ol' the board. tlne ol' the general student represen- tatives is elected for a two-year term at the general student election each year the same as any other student ollicer. The student representatives must be juniors at the time they are elected since they serve on the board tor two years. The editor ol' each pub- lication is elected by the student body at the general election from those can- didates approved by' the Board ot' Publications as qualilied for the posi- tion. The business managers are ap- pointed by the board. All ol' these editors and business managers must meet the same general qualilications as all other student ollicers and in addition have the teclmical qualilica- tions for the specialized work of the publication. These requirements in- clude at least one year of experience on the publication for which the in- dividual is a candidate and a grade point average ol' l.I25 for editors and of l-point for business managers. The editor and business manager ol' the Bedskin nmst be seniors at the time ol' taking ollice in September. For the past year the six general members have been Arthur l.oewen, senior student: tlarl Letlere, junior student: Nlr. tleorge Il. Wlhite, ling- lish Department, and Dr. J. l. Keith. Dairy Department. appointed faculty' members: Dr. tl. ll. Nlclflroy, Dean ol' Nleu: and tllement li. Trout, llead ol' the l'ublications Department. The editor and business manager serving on the board controlling the Bedskin are .lames Skinner, editor: and Floyd tludgel, business manager. For the llaily tftfollegiau they are liarl Bich- ert, editor: and l.inl'ord Pitts, acting business manager: and for the Aggie- vator, Joe lxnox, editor: and Balph Slater, business manager. Baymond Bivert is tleneral Nlanager ol' Student Publications and Secretary' ol' the Board ol' l'ublications. The board is organized to give the students' control so that the publica- Draftecl New Constitutional Amendment. lnsured Fair Play tions will be really student activities. but have enough faculty members on it to give stability and balance and to insure continuous regard for the future welfare of the publications. The Board maintains close supervision of the business all'airs through the general manager ot' student publica- tions. Since the board is tinally responsible for all finances, and the business ol' the publications amounts to several thousand dollars per year, the board members individually. can- not give the time to make the de- tailed checks needed. Therefore. the general manager is employed l'ull time by the board to carry this de- tailed responsibility. lle is respons- ible to the board and not to the in- dividual publication. Included in this work is the supervision of the tftfol- legian printing plant in which the Aggievator and other student publica- tions as well as the U'Collegian are printed. The Board of lublications has I changed form three times during the past ten years. The organization several years ago provided a live-man board composed of two students. one elected each year for a two-year term, the Head of the College Publications Department, one faculty member ap- Ti-KYXIUXIJ lf. iiIYHR'l' . . knows lltNlJl'I.lllIiltt1 Page Z0

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I' Jfze E ,ian Qiuioicuz . . . Serves the Rural People of the State. lntroduces Scientific Agriculture ancl Modern Home Making N 'rms eighth day ol' Nlay this year the lixtension Division celebrated its twenty-second year of service. The division's work covers the entire state. The work being directed from the central ollices lo- cated in Gardner llall on the A. and M. campus. On the above date in I9l8 Presi- dent Wilsoii signed the Smith-Lever bill and thus provided the cooperative system of rural education through which the college now reaches directly into 2l-11,000 farms and farm homes. The Director of lixtcnsion is re- sponsible to the president ol' the col- lege as are the deans of the various resident faculties, and under him a central oliice stall' supervises and -assists the work in the lield. The staff consists of lirnest li. Scroll as acting director of extension with Fred lt. ltlerrilield as assistant director. bliss Nlorma Nl. Bruin- baugh is the state home demonstra- tion agent. and li. A. Pratt is the state l-ll Club agent. To complete the stall' there are four district agents for men's work and four for women's. Too, there are a number of specialists in various phases of farming and farm home-making. In every county there is a farm agent and a home demonstration agent. They are farm-reared and By C. P. BASWELL college-trained in agriculture and home economics. and act as repre- sentatives of the extension division and ol the l . 5. llepartment ol Xgri- culture. Thev are emploved under a co- operative agreement between the county and the college. ln turn the college and the department of Agri- culture have a cooperative agreement under which the extension work is carried on. The extension division does not wait for the farm lo come to the college, but takes the college to the farm. This is done by the power of example instead of by classroom study. Cooperating with the county agents are progressive farmers who adopt improved practices and demon- strate them in actual practice so that their neighbors begin to adopt them too. The real picture of the inlluence of the extension division can be given only in the terms of farms made more productive of good livings and farm homes creative of good citizens. llowever even in cold print there is meaning in such facts as these: ln 1935. of III l,000 farm homes in tlklahoma. lt5.Il0t were directly in- fluenced by the work ofthe extension division. The 18.000 l-ll tflub mem- bers in L025 clubs came from 38,567 li. li. Scuou, . . . . lakes the college lo the furrn homes. While on the subject of l-ll work. the national l-ll club champion, Xiley .lohnson. for this year. comes from tlklahoma and is now a freshman at X. and ll. tlollege. The extension division has always been the tirst line of defense in any emergency allecting farm people. The administration of the X. X. .-X. was put in charge of the extension div ision. From the beginning of this program to the end of W35. a total of Soft.- l38.I20t.lo was paid to cooperating farmers throughout the state. Page 19

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C' . . . auefuw Jnumtfz Estate . M ' , D' l,l',I4I to Rlhltl -tfudgel, litts Riehert, Xyhite, Keith, Trout, Nlelilroyg liiyerl, l.oeyy'en, Slater, Knox. Skinner pointed hy the president ol' the eol- lege, and the editor ol' the puhlieation under eonsideration. This made. in ell'eet. three hoards with over-lapping membership sueh as the present hoard. The editor and husiness manager ol' eaeh puhlieation was eleeted hy the student hody. This was ehangxed in I929 to a hoard eomposed oi' one student repre- sentative eleeted l'rom eaeh sehool on the eampus. the editors and husiness managers ofall puhlieations, the llead ot' the College Puhlieations Depart- ment, an alumnus appointed hy' the presidenl ol' the college. one t'aeulty memher appointed hy the president and the general manager ol' student puhlieations. This hoard appointed editors and husiness managers. ln handling student puhlieations, the hoard aets in a superyisory eapae- ity. passing on general polieies and setting up aims and methods and ap- proying employees. So far as possihle the hoard leayes the responsihility for day to day yyorll on the puhlieations to the ollieers. llloyy'ey'er. the hoard has final author- ity in all eases. Steady progress has heen made in improving the puhlieations, the mem- hers ofthe hoard helieyfe. During the past few years this progress has heen made in spite of the ditlieult linaneial situation. lievenues for all puhliea- ljtlgl' tions have heen ent to ahout one-hall ol' their liormer ley'el. Itigid eeonomy has heen neeessary to keep up the seryiees and in some eases to expand them. This has handieapped the puh- liealions in their attempts to huild up the stalls. So many ol' the students on this eampus must earn at least part ol' I their expenses that l'eyy' ean deyole the amount ol' time neeessary to holding: a non-paying position on one ol'the puh- lieations. With the deereased rey- enues, the puhlieations haye heen un- ahle to pay so many stall' memhers or as high salaries as in preyions years, t,onsequenlly many eapahle students interested in puhlieations haye heen unahle to oualil'y l'or the adyaneed positions. lloyyeyler, there has heen an exeeptional spirit ol' loyalty and a eompetent though small stall' has heen maintained at all times. Une ol the l't'SIltHlSIllllIllt'S ol the hoard is the operation ol' the tlillol- legian printing plant. This plant is oyyned hy the tJ'tlollegian l'uhlishing tlompany. a non-prolit eorporation regularly' organized and ehartered under the layys ol' the State ol' tlllla- homa. yy'ith the entire student hotly as stoellholders. The eorporation. ol' eourse, is under the hoard ol' Ilireetors ol'the tlorporation yy hieh delegates t he aetual operation tothe Board ol. lluh- lieations. The manager ol' student puhlieations is aet iy'e superyeisor ol' the la its the Plant. During the past ten yet puhheations haye paid lor the equip ment needed to puhlish pai Nlt ,y tht daily mer. and sueh student printing .s the Xglgiieyator. The plant eontains . idel l'rinting: presy x s tapahlf ol printing: .lsmott papers per hour. a llat ved press lor magazine yyorly. tyyo hnoty pes. a paper eutter. easting lm type and other smaller equipment needed. thily' the laet tht il the pl int . 1 is owned hy the puhlit-ations has in idf L ihle yyith the eontinued seryn-es poss' thf itduud uni nn I i it tn ally all ol 1-, .x ' ., ,Q D.l.'.. the yyorlx is done hy students yyho 2 thus enahled lo help meet their eol Tflllt' t'XIbt'llSt'S. lt is the hope ol the hoard memhi Is that they yyill he ahle lu huild np a .stem ol' training lor the yario NN positions on pnhlreations yyhieh yyill 'iye eyery amhitions student an op 7-. portunity to deyelop then' 'thility and i u hy regular promotion giye them iii tttflllllttll tor t'llIt'tt'tll and loyal yyt ill l X neyy responsllnhty lor the houd is passing on neyy puhlieations yyhn h 'ire estalyhshed on the tam sl' pus oups. The hoard desires lu giyt 'iir representation to all student in terests on the eampus and lu proyidf the hest possihle pnhheations yyit h tht llll2lltt'liil support allorded.