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STAFF
Temporary staff begins publishing new
John Pantalone Richard
Raquier
.\nne Foster
John
Levesque
"What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." Thomas Riley Marshall, vice president under Wood-
Wilson, said it first, but W. C. Fields, the actor and biting social critic, made it popular. Well, here it is at last. Just what the country needs.
row
This
cigar
will leave
mouths. Others will get
a
a
bad
taste
chuckle
will
in
people's
some
of the
new
paper's
Lucia
what the country needs. The staff intends to try. Even before the publication of its first issue. Cigar has
Droby
Carol Cioe Hazlelt
Sandy
.\lan Green
Harvey
Kohn
Rosalie
Targonski
Susan Shaw Ron Ellish
John Silva
engendered controversy. the
new name.
provide
campus of
Calh Winters
name.
Hopefully, Cigar
out
Critics have lashed
some
out
Let the controversy rage. Cigar hopes great deal of it in the months to come.
to
stimulate
Steve Cheslow
Larry
Kahn
Jeff Kleinman Bruce
Compaine
a
The pages of this newspaper are open lo anyone inter ested in the workings of the university community. The staff is open
of the
work. The
policy anyone willing paper is not locked into any ideological perspective. We intend to tell it like it is, ask people to tell it like see it, and make readers feel it up and down the
they length
to
to
When the
cigar. Cigar starts
The resignation of Bmce Daniel, editor of the Beacon, paved the way for a new campus newspaper now known as "The Good FiveCent Cigar." Daniel resigned Feb. 15 after a publishing i6-page farewell issue. Only one page had text. The rest were blank. Daniel called his parting shot 'Notbingness. You Deserve It."
The Student Senate shortly thereafter approved a constitution for a new organization and ap pointed three members of a board of directors. The new directors are Thomas
Howard, student body treasurer; McKee, a junior English major; and Richard Raquier, a John
former Beacon news editor. The six-member board was filled out
with the appointment of former Spencer Gelband, president of the Graduate Student Association; Lawrence Kahn, former business manager of the Beacon; and Anne Foster, former managing editor of the Beacon. The board is in the process of
selecting
a
permanent
staff,
A
temporary staff appointed by Raquier, chairman of the board, is
of this
to
get stale, butt
it
out.
It's your
newspaper. RAR
Bill Solomon
against
Fans cherish it.
URI paper
publishing staff
can
the paper until
a
new
be selected.
Many applicants for editorial positions have agreed to work on the temporary staff. Both can didates for editor, John Levesque and John Pantalone, are working on the Cigar staff.