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Turn out the lights, this presidency’s over

 

Mark Mourer By Mark Mourer,
J-Exes president

 

Ever want to run a bar? I mean build it, or refurbish it…open it…run it...host Super Bowl parties there…invite the Bud girls to buy happy hour drinks at your place…sell a T-shirt that says “(your name here)’s Tavern”?

 

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Slater announces retirement

as dean of College of

Communication

 

Mark MourerDr. Bill Slater, dean of the College of Communication, which includes the Schieffer School, has announced his retirement at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year.

 

After a sabbatical, Slater will join the faculty of the Schieffer School, where he holds the rank of professor of broadcast journalism. Provost Nowell Donovan is appointing a search committee to look for Slater's replacement as dean.

 

 

 

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Fall '07 Issue |

 

Looking back

 

Here’s the Editorial Writing Class of 1949, posed on the steps of Goode Hall.  From top:  Eugene R. Miller, Betty Jo Donovan, Bill Rea, Walter Burch, Marvin Veal, Professor Warren K. Agee.  Second row: Sam Wagnon, unidentified student, Charles Thompson, Jack White, Charles Cole, June R. Welch, unidentified student, Bryan Wieckershiemer, Jack Joyce.  Third row:  unidentified student, Oliver T. (Ot) Hampton, Enid Weidenbach, Bill Fairley, Ronnie Cole, Ken Stout, Dayle Weatherley, Aubrey Robertson.  Front tow: Marilyn Lynch and Betty Charles Hammack.

 

 

Also from 1949, here’s the Skiff lab in the basement of Goode Hall, on a Wednesday afternoon in 1949.  Students were editing Friday’s weekly Skiff.  In the slot of the copy desk are Jack White, editor, and Paul O. Ridings, department head.  White recalls that he edited stories and turned them over to Ridings for checking (in the days when Skiff advisers still read copy before publication).  White created the layout for the four pages of the newspaper and took the layout and copy downtown to the basement print shop of the News-Tribune, where the paper was printed.  On Thursday afternoon, White again went downtown to check galleys and pages before the paper was printed.  The Skiff was delivered to campus boxes on Friday mornings.