YEARBOOK_1979

Page 178

The Good 5^

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Every week a hearty group of souls band together to produce one of URI's most recognized student ac tivities TAe Good F,( Cigar. With a

flats to Norwich, Connecticut, and delivers the finished product to the campus buildings during the night.

mixture of perserverance, skill and luck, the staff puts out the news

During

Tuesday paper in their offices

through in

the

Friday

Memorial

Union, issue of the

Cigar sentially a two-day process. During the course of one day, assigned stor ies are gathered and written, and then edited and given headlines. Al so that night, the stories are assigned places in the newspaper. Producing

one

is

es

this process, the Cigar's business staff and advertising staff are working on the financial aspects of the $100,000 a year business that ia the

Cigar.

Cigar

editors

to

often asked if it is week cam

pus news. The answer lies in the satisfaction felt when walking into a dining hall or class in the morning and seeing rows upon rows of stu

dents The next day, the stories are typeset and placed on the flats. Upon completion, a van driver races the

are

working up to 40 hours a produce URI's source of

worth

gar.

poring

over a

copy of the Ci

Cigar


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