University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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The Gateway Cup THE greatest problem one has to meet in any business is that of getting his article into the hands of the public. If the article is of good qual- ity, the sale of it may be compared somewhat to the locomotive and its train of cars ; a great force is required to start the train moving, but after it has once attained a little speed, very little power is required to keep it in motion. So it is with the Gateway. The magazine will do no one any good unless they read. It was decided therefore that a special effort should be made toward putting the Gateway in the hands of everyone of our students and everyone else who might be interested in the University. , Money talks, no less in journalism than in mining stocks, politics and so on. The more money the Gateway has at its disposal, the better paper S!- it is able to support. The largest source of our money is in the advertising that is contained in the paper. Since these two phases of the work, getting subscriptions and getting ads, required special effort each year, the Gate- l» way Staff decided that recognition of that special effort would be given in ' » the form of a silver loving cup, presented to the class which showed the highest percentage results at the end of each year. The cup was bought by donations from every member of the Gateway Staff. Following are the J regulations which govern the contest : II; With the primary intent to create in the University of Omaha a clearly defined and permanent in the advancement and the yearly success of our . -. V X » « ■ . « ■ M ■ ■ M ■ ■ ■

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GATEWAY STAFF OFFICERS Editoi--m-Chief Clyde R. Business Manager Jack Bennett Assistant Editor Alice Mae Weller Styskal Asst. Business Manager.-Dorothy Griffis ASSOCIATE EDITORS Freshman Class Marlowe Addy Sophomore Class.... Nelson Hartford Junior Class Katherine Fisher Senior Class Esther Janssen Y. M. C. A Lorin Thompson Y. W. C. A Katherine Fisher Exchange Helen McDonald Athletics David Robel Law Department John Dill Alumni Esther Knapp Faculty Miss Buck STAFF ARTISTS Wm. J. Stone, Manager Harley Anderson Leonard Thiessen Pase 7.

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3 ' University Magazine, the Gateway, we, the elect staff of the Gateway do present this cup to the University to be held and awarded yearly in accord- ance to the following- regulations : 1. A systematic campaign for subscriptions for the Gateway shall be carried on, beginning week preceeding the election of the Gateway Staff, and closed on the day of the election. 2. This contest shall be carried on by the classes of scholastic distinc- tion ; namely. Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, 3. The rating is to be based on a percentage per capita basis thus : The number of subscriptions of each class shall be totaled and this total di- vided by the number of pupils enrolled in the class. These percentages will be kept on record until the end of the school year at a time just previous to the pubUshing of the Gateway Annual. Beginning on March 1, a campaign for advertising for the Gateway Annual will be carried on in a manner similar to that of the subscription campaign. The percentage in this case shall be based on the total monej ' value represented by the advertising which the class has reported. The two final averages will be averaged and the mean calculated. The class whose final average is the larg-est will be awarded the cup to be held until any oth- er class in the following- year shall prove itself more worthy of its posses- sion by defeating the possessor in a campaign similar to the one described. 4 The name of the class holding the cup each year will be engraved on the cup. 5. In recognition of the effort by individuals of any class, a yearly subscription to the Gateway including the Annual will be awarded to the party of each class who has obtained the greatest number of subscriptions and the largest value in ads. In case one party should receive the greatest number of subscriptions and another of the same class, the g-reatest value in ads, each of them shall receive a subscription to the Gateway to include an Annual. 6. The cup shall be formally presented to the winning class at an en- tertainment called the Gateway Social to be held at the University not later than five weeks after the beginning of school ; said social to be given by the members of the classes which were defeated in the contest. The results of the campaign of this year are as follows : Subscriptions Ads. Mean. Seniors 50% 0 35% Juniors 30 25 15 Sophomores 45 20 25 Freshmen 65 oO 70 We congratulate the Freshman class on its splendid work and hope that their enthusiasm will carry on into the Sophomore class of 1921-22. Al Kastman, freshman, received the largest number of ads while Marion Fish- er of the same class takes the prize for subscriptions. Pag-f f-