University of Central Arkansas - Scroll Yearbook (Conway, AR)

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ednesday night at THE ECHO as seen through the eyes of an editor ednesdays may be like any other day for most UCA students, but for the staff :mbers of The Echo, it's a day that ten doesn't end until 7 o'clock the xt moming. Staffers are gathering, writing and iting the news for the week's news- per for days or weeks before the blication date, but Wednesday is : day it all has to come together. Because of class schedules, we often e not able to begin work ednesdays until 3 p.m.--just in time wait another two hours for the -ors in the inadequately wired Stu- nt Center to be buffed, making crything entered into a VDT during .s time susceptible to termination. Things do not start to progress at a :ady pace until ll it is realized at out 7 p.m. that an important story th a deadline of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday nowhere to be found, 25 the Jesetter-film processor goes haywire d wraps copy around the internal llers requiring immediate sassemblage, or 33 it's discoverred 5 change machine is out of order d no one can break a dollar bill for I . ,g-4'9 . . - wr a trip to the caffeine machine. After this and other similar emer- gencies have been taken care of, we find ourselves at 3 o'clock Thursday morning hunched over the light tables laying out what seems like miles of copy or sitting at a VDT trying to write a headline for a story about the election of Joe Blow from Possum Patch as recording secretary of the poison ivy sitting club. After finishing the poison ivy head- line, it's now 4:30 a.m. and I wonder if I fell asleep in front of the terminal again. I tum around to see how Edi- tor Tracey Pemberton is doing at the light table. ',How's it goin, over there, Trace?,' I say trying to be heard over the humming of the typesetter. She looks up with a glazed look in her eyes. Wha' ja say? she answers through the additional clatter of slip- ping cogs in the processor. I said 'How is it going?', I enunciate clearly. Well,', she says, Heverything is go- ing great, except I don't know who the student talking to President Farris in this picture is. Wonderful, great, we both say out loud. After a lengthy search through the Scroll in hopes of identifying this guy, we discover he is not even enrolled at UCA. After the copy, headline and picture outlines are on the pasteup pages, it? time for the final proofreading. As we and many Echo staffers before us have discovered, eyes don't work too well at 5 a.m. Anyone who probably come reads The Echo has across something that , but is really sup- like this, ?. At this time, The Echo typesetter does not print question marks, and we have to replace the mispunctuation by hand. Well, after all this is done, the pasteup pages are stuffed into a box, sent to the Log Cabin Democrat, the Conway newspaper, and run through the printing presses. An Echo staffer picks the papers up about two hours later and distributes them around the campus. That's how an issue of The Echo is looks like this, 0 posed to look made. Q --Stacie Nunn Proofreading. Stacie Nunn checks the finished copy for errors before using it. Paste Up. Stacie Nunn, Dechard Brunson. and Larry Isch design an issue of the Echo. Wednesdayllicho 17

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Advisor Help. Professor Dean Duncan, Echo advisor. suggests ideas to Echo sports editor Larry Isch. if E if ? Ju W ENWM I ,Myer J f at s is Sport,s Design. Larry Isch considers origninal ways to lay out the sports section. Getting Ready. Tracy Pemberton, Echo edi- tor, prepares copy. 16 Student Life ws, .X ., S r. KN. ss if sisas New X . , ' ff,y,4W,-:. N Nga in W x K i v ff? fi ,

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