DO Alumni Newsletter, December 2010

744 Ostrom Ave. Syracuse, N.Y. 13210

DECEMBER

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40 never felt so good

Check out a timeline of The D.O.’s independence battles.

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In the spotlight Three Daily Orange alumni are making news around the country.

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Show me the money A list of our generous donors.

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Laugh it off You know this job was fun on occasion. There is still plenty on the walls to remind us of it all.

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From the editor’s desk

Treasures prompt staff to reconnect

The Daily Orange staff is planning a 40th anniversary celebration for Feb. 18-20.

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If I could turn back time

2010

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ounding echoed through the halls of 744 Ostrom Ave. during production of the 2010 Graduation Guide. Fresh from Faegan’s, the outgoing editor-in-chief and an assistant photo editor tested screwdrivers and any other tools they could find. Their minds were made up: The management office filing cabinet would open that night.

Since Bob Heisler and The Daily Orange’s independent rebirth, management teams end their terms by signing the filing cabinet’s exterior.

With its key lost in the turnover of D.O. generations, someone locked the cabinet in the early 2000s. Its contents became more of a mystery each semester.

After several attempts, tool combinations and expletives, Will Halsey, the assistant photo editor, forced each drawer open. Inside, Halsey and Meredith Galante, the outgoing editor-in-chief, found letters of intent addressed to the 1996-2001 management teams, a 55-page D.O. memoir, and a dozen or so posters of Rob Howard proclaiming, “College is a sham.”

They found special editions, including The D.O.’s 25th independence anniversary and SU’s 125th birthday, and reprints of the 1903 issue that

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meredith galante | editor-in-chief emeritus WILL HALSEY, a former assistant photo editor and a 2010 SU graduate, forces open the management office filing cabinet in May. It was locked sometime in the early 2000s.

such a chief

spend most of my time in a single office furnished with a broken filing cabinet, a dirty plaid couch and computers from the turn of the millennium — not glamorous by any means. But the office has one redeeming factor: I’m surrounded by caricatures of former editors and their memories — these are, of course, the famed ducks. I consider these ducks my biggest motivation. The names I recognize from old mastheads and bylines from publications across the world show me why I devote all my time to this paper.

My name is Katie McInerney, and I am the editor-in-chief of The Daily Orange. I’m a junior newspaper journalism major and am wrapping up my third semester on staff. I previously served as presentation director. The managing editor (and essentially, the other half of my brain) is Kathleen Ronayne, a junior newspaper journalism major and former assistant news editor. We feel honored to work in management, and I hope that you’ll follow our staff’s work as we strive to break barriers and publish more dynamic content than we’ve seen in years.

I have a happy announcement to make: After a profitable advertising year, we’ve saved enough money to pay off our last installment of the lawsuit. Finding the money for this SEE MCINERNEY PAGE 4

Alumni support preserves paper’s legacy, ensures future

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n many ways, The Daily Orange is much more than a newspaper. It’s an organization that provides students a real-world outlet to cut their teeth in journalism, advertising, art and design.

It’s the only publication on campus with the reach and authority to make student work truly matter to the community.

And it’s a place where we’ve all built friendships and gained experience that has profoundly improved our lives and

careers.

There’s one way The D.O. is just like a newspaper, though: For the past few years, it’s been going out of business.

The D.O. is tethered to the same outdated business model that has torpedoed countless publications, and we can’t wait for the industry to innovate or for the economy to turn around. We need to change the way The D.O. does business to ensure it’s here to help the next genera-

tion of students the same way it helped every one of us.

The future of this organization isn’t about business, and we shouldn’t rely on an ever-changing roster of busy students or a motley crew of daytime business staff to crack the code of newspaper profitability. In fact, the ideal business model for The D.O. looks a lot more like Syracuse University’s than The PostStandard’s. We should see The D.O. as a

nonprofit foundation for student journalism, one with its own income-generating power that’s backed up by a cash-flow cushion provided by the people whose lives it has meaningfully changed.

The new D.O. will have the funding to give students a more valuable experience than ever, and the editors will have the freedom to innovate, experiment and produce journalism that makes us all SEE HOWARD PAGE 4

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DO plans Feb. reunion weekend for anniversary celebration D

ear Alumni, In 1971, a group of Syracuse University students built the foundation for something special: an independent newspaper to serve the needs of the campus community. Forty years later, we still serve that need.

There may not be protests stirring up campus, or radical moves for separation from the university, but one thing remains the same between The Daily Orange then and now: a group of students who love writing, reporting and informing.

To celebrate 40 years of independence, we’ll host a weekend-long event Feb. 18 to 20. We’d like as many alumni as possible to attend.

Here’s a brief breakdown of the plans: • A gathering at good old 744 Ostrom Ave. on

K ATHLEEN RONAYNE

IF YOU REUNITE

What: 40th anniversary celebration Where: Syracuse, N.Y. When: Feb. 18-20 How much: Priceless Friday night: This is the perfect time to catch up with old friends and meet the current staff.

Plus, you’ll get a little history lesson just by looking at the walls.

• A history of The D.O.: Think pictures and examples of the 1971 Daily Orange and the 2011 Daily Orange. We’re also planning a discussion about what it was like to go independent in 1971 and financially independent in 1991.

• Lessons from alumni in the form of panel discussions and roundtables: What’s the industry like now? How can current staffers prepare?

managing things What were some of the most difficult or controversial decisions made during different periods at The Daily Orange?

• Syracuse basketball, of course: Syracuse vs. Rutgers, 4:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. We secured a limited number of group tickets.

• Sunday goodbye breakfast • We’d like to assign all current staffers a D.O. mentor to learn from, one on one. We’ll

take a break Saturday for lunch with mentors.

We’ll dedicate this weekend to celebrating 40 years of something amazing. Regardless of the year you worked at The D.O., your former job here or if you still work in the industry, this weekend presents a chance for everyone to cherish one thing we’ll have in common for the rest of our lives: the experiences of this crazy place.

If you’d like to attend, and we really hope you do, please e-mail alumni@dailyorange.com to RSVP. If you’re interested in being a mentor, let us know!

We can’t wait to celebrate a fabulous 40th year with you.

Kathleen Ronayne (’12) is the managing editor and a former asst. news editor of The Daily Orange.

She’s searching for that one game-changing story that captures the power of this paper. If you’ve got some crazy idea that never ran and is still possible, contact her at editor@ dailyorange.com.

‘71 editorial director remembers campus upheaval, paper’s split from SU

By Robert H. Tembeckjian Syracuse University and the nation were in constant turmoil 40 years ago. Protesting students shut down colleges across the country after Ohio National Guardsmen killed four anti-war students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

At SU, a self-created student-strike committee camped out in the basement of Hendricks Chapel — the student center had not yet been built — and directed alternatives to businessas-usual, such as teach-ins, anti-war seminars, public policy debates and door-to-door community organizing. There were mass informational meetings on the Quad nearly every day.

Social conventions were challenged, and rules constraining SU’s campus life eliminated: the 11 p.m. curfew for women, sharp time limits on opposite-sex dorm visitors and the one-footon-the-floor policy in the opposite sex’s room, which had made us all romantic acrobats.

Students vigorously advocated for innovations that today are taken for granted, such as voting representation in the University Senate and internships for credit.

In 1971, Chancellor John Corbally, whose calm, empathetic response to the 1970 student protest helped keep the campus peaceful, left after falling out of favor with the Board of Trustees over his support of a report finding racial discrimination in the vaunted SU foot-

photo credit left: barbara beck (1971); right: rick kopstein (2007) THEN AND NOW Robert Tembeckjian as editorial director in 1971 and today. ball program. Despite the eventual accomplishments of his successor, Melvin Eggers, many students regarded Corbally’s departure as a sign that Syracuse was not ready for progressive change in 1971.

The D.O. seemed to adopt the era’s student mantra: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Many readers regarded The D.O. as slanted toward student protesters. A new masthead logo appeared: a fist breaking a rifle.

In 1970 and 1971, The D.O. undoubtedly gave university administrators heartburn.

Mutual trust and respect were in short supply.

Although The D.O. was a university publication, the administration tried to avoid responsibility for a libel suit against the paper. In spring

1971, Paula Fabian took over for Sam Hemingway as editor-in-chief and was subjected to enormous criticism for continuing along a path some considered countercultural. The university created a new publication, The Record, in part to disseminate “official” information The D.O. would not print. Smaller, vibrant student publications (The Dialog and The Promethean) competed with The D.O. A debate raged over what defined a campus newspaper. Could a university tolerate freedom of expression when that expression acerbically turned against it?

Could a student newspaper published under the university’s imprimatur really be independent?

Then, in October 1971, the three student newspapers audaciously banded together, renounced SU control and named Bob Heisler and Barbara Beck the consensus choices for editor-in-chief and managing editor of a now independent D.O. Heisler and Beck, joined by News Editor Jayson Stark, Features Editor Bruce Apar, Sports Editor Bob Herzog and myself as Editorial Director. We were too giddy and naïve to worry or appreciate the enormity of what had happened. Less than 1 percent of all college papers were independent.

Money? It’ll come, just cover the stories.

Another campus sit-in, denial of tenure to a talented teacher, a mess-up at health services, the war, civil rights. Heisler had us cover city politics because of their effect on the university.

We started calling women “Ms.” instead of “Miss” or “Mrs.” Somehow it worked. We rode a dilapidated red station wagon from East Adams Street to Manlius Publishing every night, where new “cold type” machines sometimes froze and the old linotype cranked out “slugs.” Business Manager Rich Turner routinely warned us that we were in the red, and we’d say cut more ad space for editorial.

The paper would not have survived without Heisler’s deft management and Student Association support. For 20 years, SA underwrote a significant part of the operating budget, but that was not without its perils. Student leaders could be as prickly as university administrators when the focus of unflattering press attention turned on them.

In 1991, another exhilarating chapter of D.O. independence was written when Editor-in-Chief Jodi Lamagna and the D.O. Board of Trustees disavowed SA support, declaring that a free press could not accept subsidies from a government it covered. In the nearly 20 years since, The D.O. has hewed to that policy, making us 40-year “ancients” exceedingly proud.

Bob Tembeckjian was The Daily Orange’s editorial director from ‘71-72. Before joining the editorial staff, he wrote D.O. opinion pieces and served as class president and the spokesman for the Student Strike Committee during the 1970 protests. He is now the administrator for the N.Y. Commission on Judicial Conduct.

A HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE MAY 1970 D.O. staff members raise enough money to print 10 issues in 11 days during campus protests against the Vietnam War.

1970 FEB. 17, 1971 SU administrators begin fending off responsibility for a $938,000 libel suit involving three D.O. editors.

FEB. 19, 1971 Before a decision is made regarding responsibility of the libel suit, SU officials schedule elections for the paper’s next editor, without consulting D.O. staff.

FEB. 22, 1971 The Student Assembly approves a new constitution and student advisory board for The D.O. that will elect future editors and oversee the paper’s budget, providing separate oversight from the administration’s Board of Publications.

FEB. 23, 1971 A D.O. editorial declares the paper’s independence from the administration’s Board of Publications.

SUMMER 1970 The D.O.’s Summer Orange stops printing after it loses SU funding.

1980 FEB. 26, 1971 A front-page editorial announces Paula Fabian, elected by the Student Assembly D.O. Advisory Board, as the paper’s new editor. But it warns that administrators will soon oust her and install the Board of Publications’ choice for editor. (Fabian remained editor.)

positive action” in paying for the paper’s lawsuit.

APRIL 21, 1971 In a letter read at a University Senate meeting, SU’s attorney discourages the university’s financial support of The D.O.’s libel suit or general budget. Months earlier, USen voted to encourage administrators to give the paper legal assistance.

OCT. 21, 1971 SA’s Finance Board says it cannot justify spending a third of the undergraduate activity fee on campus newspapers, endangering the livelihood of all three campus newspapers. SA will grant one paper $25,000, a fraction of The D.O.’s annual production cost.

MAY 19, 1971 An editorial by SU alumni encourages contributing to the “Daily Orange Defense Fund” instead of an SU fundraiser. An editor’s note says SU has still taken “no

OCT. 26, 1971 “Vol. 1,” the new D.O., prints its first issue, representing the three combined staffs with Bob Heisler at the helm.

OCT. 19, 1971 As SA tightens its publications budget, representatives from The D.O., The Promethean and The Dialog meet to discuss combining for a new daily.

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No strings attached Anniversary highlights power, importance of independence

By The Daily Orange Staff

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n a Wegmans produce aisle in October 2008, Melanie Hicken (News Editor, Class of ‘09) received a sealed packet from an anonymous source. The packet’s contents revealed Syracuse University’s intentions to force David Potter, a College of Arts Sciences associate dean, to resign and sign a confidentiality agreement.

Hicken walked to the parking lot, dialed Potter’s number and reached him at home.

“I don’t want to want to talk about this on the phone.

Why don’t you come over?” Potter said.

That night, Hicken talked to Potter for an hour at his Fayetteville, N.Y., home. She filed a story on Potter that night, and the story ran stripped across the front page the next day.

“It was really exciting and exhilarating because it all happened really quickly,” Hicken said recently. “I felt like I had broken a really important story.”

And because of The D.O.’s independence, Hicken reported the story and the paper published it without fear of reprisals.

After nearly 40 years of editorial independence and 20 years of complete financial independence, The D.O. exists as the single loudest whistle-blower on campus. This sort of independence exists for few college publications. In 1991, less than 1 percent of college newspapers were independent, said Logan Aimone, executive director of the National Scholastic Press Association. Even today, you can count financially and editorially independent college papers on a few hands, Aimone said.

Importantly, the power derived from this independence endows The D.O. with the ability to publish stories on situations like Potter’s forced resignation, to send reporters to New York City soon after 9/11, to report on SU’s financial position and to learn from mistakes.

Tiffany Lankes (Editor-in-Chief, Class of ‘03) recalled when The D.O. sent reporters and photographers to New York City the day of the Sept. 11 attacks, as soon as it happened.

“I don’t think, if we were university-run, they would have paid for that or taken the risk of sending people to New York City,” Lankes said.

Some spent a week there, in the mix with national media outlets. The D.O. ran stories about SU students trying to find family members, and people filling a wall with photographs of missing loved ones.

During her tenure, Lankes said, the newspaper covered a fraternity brawl on university property that sent a student to the hospital in a coma. The staff ran critical stories about the Student Association giving a disproportionate amount of power and funding to University Union, the entertainment programming organization.

In 2003, the university threatened The D.O.’s right to distribute on campus, or even rent the university-owned house at 744 Ostrom Ave. “There’s obviously a degree of discomfort that the university has with an independent newspaper, that it would go there,” Lankes said.

Before the brawls and 9/11, SU faced bleak economic times in the early 1990s. In 1991, Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw became chancellor. To fix the situation, he cut back, consolidated colleges, and commissioned special studies and reports.

And each time Shaw released information about his policies, he would send an envelope with the details to The D.O. at 5 p.m. The next day, Shaw would release the information to other Syracuse media.

“We were able to cover these things in a way that other media didn’t get to cover it. Part of that was because we were aggressive and not constrained by advisers or anything like that,” said Roy Gutterman (News Editor, Class of ‘93), who now works as the director of SU’s Tully Center for Free Speech.

Gutterman still can’t figure out why Shaw released the information to The D.O. a day before the other media. “I don’t know if he liked us or not. I think he recognized that The D.O. had an important role in disseminating information,” Gutterman said.

Looking at past coverage, independence also allows The D.O. to learn from its mistakes. Justin Young (Editor-in-Chief, Class of ‘05) said he thinks one of the most important aspects of The D.O.’s independence is the fact that students have the opportunity to be the chief operating officer of a half-

a-million dollar, not non-for-profit organization as a college student. The independence offers students the opportunity to stand on their own feet, allowing them to solve their own problems and explore issues without barriers.

In Young’s three years working in-house at The

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We were able to cover these things in a way that other media didn’t get to cover it. Part of that was because we were aggressive and not constrained by advisers or anything like that.

D.O, staff members faced the Brian Shaw case, the murder of an SU student delivery boy and a new chancellor. They also took heat for publishing what some considered racist and offensive comics. The paper’s independence allowed the paper to remain alive, while university-owned media outlets probably would have been shut down. The independent status forced the staff to take responsibility for the material.

“I think a good example is just looking through The D.O.’s history with the racist comics and what happened with those consequences in comparison to what happened to HillTV and those consequences,” Young said. “We were able to weather the storm, but the university just shut the entire TV station down that day.”

The staff held public discussions with groups the comics upset and faced student protesters and angry faculty members. But those challenges shaped the contours of The D.O.’s future.

This is what separates The D.O. from other campus media outlets. Young believes that even in the worst of times, the paper’s place on the SU campus goes unchallenged because of its independence.

Said Young, “They wouldn’t shut down The D.O. without first taking a very serious look at the situation.”

— Reported and written by current News Editor Beckie Strum (Class of ‘12), Shayna Meliker (News Editor, Class of ‘11), Kelly Outram (Feature Editor, Class of ‘11) and Abram Brown (Asst. News Editor, Class of ‘11).

A brief look at the ups and downs that brought The Daily Orange where it is today.

Based on reports from The Daily Orange and The Post-Standard.

1990 Dec. 9, 1991 D.O. staffers turn down $84,000 in SGA funding after cutting its budget by switching printers.

The paper joins the less than 1 percent of American college papers that aren’t university-funded.

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News editor, Cl ass of ‘93

2000 April 2002 Kevin Morrow, SU’s spokesman, encourages administrators to evaluate The D.O.’s independence and consider a university adviser. The paper’s distribution rights and university-owned building are also at stake.

April-may 2002 The D.O. Alumni Association sends Chancellor Shaw a letter in protest of the evaluation proposal. A letter signed by 72 other D.O. alumni follows.

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DAVIES FROM PAGE 1

started it all. It was the paper’s history, strewn about in four metal drawers.

In 2011, D.O. staff will rekindle that history.

Two very important anniversaries need celebrating: the paper’s 40th year of independence and its 20th year of financial independence.

In February, the 1971 staff will reunite in Syracuse to remember the year that changed the newspaper forever (Page 2). The Daily Orange Alumni Association will be reestablished with committees to oversee future newsletters, plan reunions and more. Thanks to David Dwiggins (Staff Writer, Class of ‘98), the DOAA’s website will relaunch with more accessibility for alumni to reconnect, post jobs and relive the good days. And with your help, independent student journalism will continue to thrive.

Forty years ago, a libel suit sparked a conflict between The D.O. and SU that would result in the paper’s independence. Amid the soon-to-be aftermath of the paper’s most recent lawsuit and the struggles of newspapers across

the country, D.O. staff must once again consider long-term change. Groundwork must be set for the next 40 years (Page 1).

Many of you generously contributed when we faced the most recent lawsuit, and The D.O. could not have paid it off without your help.

This newsletter is for you, and for anyone who stands by the paper. While several college newspaper alumni organizations charge an alumni association fee to offset newsletter printing costs, it is a gift to you at no cost — for as long as we can afford it.

Time has steered away from 1971, since, well, the days Heisler stored his now-famous Shoe in the filing cabinet for special occasions.

D.O. generations came and went, technology evolved, positions changed, memories faded.

This newsletter strives to preserve all that and more. And yes, it’s going in the filing cabinet.

Brittney Davies (’10) is a former copy editor and asst. feature editor and a current Board of Directors member. If anyone knows the whereabouts of the filing cabinet key or needs an update on the most recent AP Style changes, contact her at brittney.davies3@gmail.com.

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proud. The staff will be able to pursue their bigger ambitions, like reaching out with community scholarships, educational events and big alumni reunions — all of which have been pushed aside as the paper’s head honchos have struggled to keep the lights on.

To make it all happen, what has to change?

The D.O. needs the support of its extensive alumni community. Thousands of us will receive this newsletter and other outreach, and I know The D.O. holds a special place in all of our hearts. A small contribution from each of us will help the organization accomplish great new things and weather the tides of the industry and economy.

This is about much more than helping a business stay afloat — it’s about empowering The D.O. to help future students learn, practice and experience the wonderful world of independent student journalism. When today’s students reach out to you for donations, advice and connections, think of it not as paying someone else’s bills, but as supporting a cause that has helped all of us build friendships, memories and careers that are worth passing down to the next generation.

We’ve all helped shape The D.O.’s long and exciting history. Starting today, let’s make

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took a combination of our general manager Pete Waack’s ability to minimize costs on both the editorial and business sides of the paper, smart spending by our editorial staff and, of course, the generous support of alumni donors. The D.O. can finally move on and do incredible things with more ease than before.

Below, some ways we’ve started to do that.

Year in review Last spring, SU removed another campus publication from dining halls because an employee objected to its content. We wrote a story and an editorial board arguing the ban violated Jerk magazine’s First Amendment rights. The next day, the chancellor’s office informed the magazine’s editors that they could again distribute in the dining centers.

We went all the way to Utah and followed SU’s men’s basketball team on the journey to the Final Four. Although the Orange failed to get to the Big Dance, it yielded some of the best sports writing and photography published all year.

This October, we produced an off-campus feature guide highlighting ways students can get off the Hill and discover something new. This guide represented a collection of planning across the board — from the Feature staff to the advertising department — everyone got involved. We hope to make it a once-asemester project for years to come.

Last year, we redesigned our website and with that, we started integrating more content online.

With datelines from around the country and stories that made national news — like our 2010 commencement speaker coverage — we cover it all, just like we have for the past 107 years. And I promise you we have no plans to stop anytime soon.

40th anniversary

TELL IT LIKE IT IS

Rob Howard’s legacy lives through these posters, which hang in nearly every office.

Thanks for teaching us one of the most important lessons to learn at The D.O.: College is a sham.

ourselves part of its future as well.

Rob Howard is the outgoing alumni board member and was editor-in-chief in 2005. E-mail him at rob@howarddc.com.

Special thanks to all who contributed, especially: Editors Abram Brown, Brittney Davies, Shayna Meliker, Kelly Outram and Kathleen Ronayne Professors Aileen Gallagher and Roy Gutterman Designer Katie McInerney The Daily Orange Board of Directors Questions? Comments? Feedback?

Contact alumni@dailyorange.com or editor@dailyorange.com.

The 40th anniversary celebration planned for February presents an exciting way to kick off a yearlong celebration of independent student journalism. I can’t begin to express the benefits that the celebration will bring to D.O. editors and other interested students.

It will be nothing short of inspiring to hear from those who worked in our spots, attended SU and worked tirelessly at their journalism careers. I hope you all attend.

D.O. WISH LIST

After cutting costs for a few years, The Daily Orange is in need of donations. Do you want to help but don’t know how?

Here’s The D.O. wish list, with our most necessary items and why we need them.

As always, any little bit helps.

Outdoor distribution rack: $160 We currently have 20 outdoor racks and would like to increase this to 40. Outdoor racks are a very reliable way to get rid of a few bundles of papers each day.

Semester salary for editor: $900 While many schools have stopped paying their editorial staff, The D.O. has continued to do so, albeit at a very low wage.

We believe that a paycheck ensures a level of responsibility and dedication that we would not always find with a volunteer staff.

New computer and monitor: $600 (8 needed) Nearly all of the machines in the house are more than 5 years old, an eternity for a computer system. The machines are bogging down under the strain of the memory and speed requirements of the basic software needed both on the editorial and the business side.

Distribution expense for one day: $135 While our overall presence on campus remains high, to continue publishing 9,000 copies, we need to expand our distribution and go directly to student housing and new business areas. This will cost an extra $50 each day.

CS5 Adobe Suite software: $400 each (we need 10!)

We are currently running CS3 while most students are trained both in class and on their own on CS5. CS5 systems would allow designers (both ad and editorial) to complete their work faster and with more design options.

Printing/mailing of alumni newsletter: $800 per issue (we’d like to do two a year) This is our first alumni newsletter in many years. The staff has volunteered their time to produce the issue, but the printing and mailing costs will exceed $800. We would like to do this every semester.

Acid-free newspaper archive boxes: $20 each There are piles of archives around the house and in the attic Morgue. We’d like to ensure these are preserved.

Board of Directors and DOAA We’re currently in the process of selecting a new alumni member for our Board of Directors, as Rob Howard is stepping down after many years at the post. We’re also working to create an alumni association, headed by passionate D.O. alumni who want to create a stronger network for alumni to keep in touch.

Next year we will debut an alumni association page at dailyorange.com.

If you have any advice, story ideas or anything else you’d like to discuss, please feel

free to e-mail me at editor@dailyorange.com or give a call at 508-292-0482. I always look forward to feedback.

Katie McInerney (’12) is editor-in-chief and former presentation director at The Daily Orange. She also serves as the president of The Daily Orange Board of Directors. If you’d like to donate a new couch to replace the one in management, contact her at editor@ dailyorange.com.

The Daily Orange is relaunching its alumni association and looking for members to join the following committees: • Fundraising • Newsletters

• Reunion/event planning • Advising

E-mail alumni@dailyorange.com if interested!

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alumni making a difference

Eli Saslow

Then: Sports Editor, Class of ‘03 Now: On book leave from The Washington Post Known around the office for his profile of former SU basketball player DeShaun Williams, which is required reading for all new employees

By Abram Brown Staff writer

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One letter came from an illegal immigrant.

Another from a Tea Party supporter in Texas.

An almost-bankrupt Michigan woman wrote a third.

For several months now, Eli Saslow (Sports Editor, Class of ‘03) has chased down these letter writers. They share little in common, except that each sent a letter to President Barack Obama. Saslow intends to use their lives, their thoughts and why they wrote to Obama to write a new book due to his publisher, Doubleday, in February.

“The book that I’m writing is kind of the

Devin Clark

Feature Editor

These days, Devin Clark tries to lighten America’s mood with werewolves, zombies and vampires.

“I love fictionalizing the absurd in a normal way and the humor that’s born out of that,” Clark said.

Clark (Cartoonist, Class of ‘00) is starting work on the second season of Comedy Central’s “Ugly Americans.” The show follows an average guy living in a New York City filled with ghoulish creatures of the night. His roommate: a zombie. His girlfriend: suspiciously attractive demon.

Stephanie Miner

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“Instead of being scared and running from them, we’re trying to socialize with them and integrate them into society,” Clark said.

It’s important that the show takes place in New York City, Clark said. The show was originally set in Washington, D.C., until one if its top writers, Dick Stern, suggested a setting in the Big Apple. The reason: New York is the only place a person could bump into a demon or werewolf and not blink.

Clark’s tendency to create fun-house mirror images of reality trace back to The D.O., where he wrote and drew his original cartoon, “Hassa Bassa,” three times a week.

“Most of the comic was either commentary

on college itself or just little gags about the holidays,” Clark said.

Clark shies away from calling his work controversial. But he remembers one particular D.O. cartoon that stirred a debate. Clark parodied an anti-drug public service announcement by having God walk in on Jesus smoking marijuana. The cartoon offended a D.O. staff writer so much, the writer stopped working for the publication, Clark said.

“I can’t control how people respond to it,” Clark said. “I can only do what I think is funny.” ansteinb@syr.edu

Then: Asst. Editorial Editor, Class of ‘92 Now: Mayor of Syracuse Graced the cover of the paper last year, when she was elected the first female mayor of the city

By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor

courtesy of stephanie miner

month leave of absence from The Post. He is also teaching a course on nonfiction narrative writing at the University of Montana.

Before moving to the national desk, Saslow covered sports for The Post.

At The Daily Orange, Saslow and fellow Post staffer Chico Harlan remain best remembered for their profile on DeShaun Williams, the Orange’s bullying and spoiled point guard.

The story’s lede recreates a scene at Konrad’s, where Williams held up a line for the bathroom so he could receive oral sex. “Obviously, I don’t think we could write that lede now at The Post,” Saslow said. “But I’m glad we did it.”

Then: Cartoonist, Class of ‘00 Now: Working on second season of his Comedy Central show, “Ugly Americans” One of many cartoonists who got their careers started at The Daily Orange

By Flash Steinbeiser

courtesy of comedy central

story of the country in a year, told through these letters,” Saslow said from his Montana house.

Saslow developed the idea for the book while working as a national enterprise writer for The Washington Post. Last March, Saslow wrote a story about the 20,000 letters Obama receives daily and how 10 of these letters end up on Obama’s desk. In the book, each chapter will feature a letter writer as the primary character, with Obama serving as a constant secondary character.

“The fun thing about this is the diversity of the people who write to Obama is crazy huge,” Saslow said.

To work on the book, Saslow took an eight-

In the fall of 1990, Stephanie Miner (Asst. Editorial Editor, Class of ’92) learned responsibility working late nights at The Daily Orange.

“It was a newspaper that was completely produced by students, and it was exclusively our responsibility,” said Miner, who became Syracuse’s first female mayor in 2009. “You didn’t have any adults standing over your shoulder telling you what you had to do.”

Miner joined The D.O. after someone told her it would be a good experience. It lived up to her expectations, she said. In her time, Miner wrote editorials and dealt with letters to the editor.

The D.O. allowed Miner to indulge her newsjunkie side, too. She learned to live by deadlines, a lesson she now uses as mayor.

“Deadlines don’t wait for anybody, and they’re not flexible,” Miner said.

Miner’s move from journalism to politics was an easy one, and she chose politics over journalism because of the chance to stand up for others, she said.

“I liked being an advocate and advocating for people and thought that I was good at it —standing up for people who didn’t have a voice,” Miner said.

Now frequently interviewed herself, Miner said she has encountered good journalists and bad journalists. For Miner, a good journalist

is one who comes to the interview prepared and checks background sources and quotes accurately.

“I always appreciate people who have done their homework, so they can just confirm details with me,” she said.

Today, Miner hopes The D.O. will continue educating Syracuse University students about civic responsibilities they often see for the first time in their lives. But her own college years seem like a lifetime ago, Miner said.

“Part of being mayor is that you don’t have time to look back,” she said. “Only time to look forward.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

Reflections It started as a prank. The mission: Get then-Daily Orange Managing Editor David Ross to sign off on running a story of the alleged “mind-reading” skills of one Tom Madison, a self-proclaimed ‘swami’ and junior biology major at SU. The story was fool-proof: Floor-mates would signal Madison using visual clues to help him identify letters on cards facing opposite to him during a presentation of his magical capablitlies. What started out as an innocent trick soon enveloped the university. Then-SU Vice President Kenneth Bartlet, a “psychic enthusiast,” even attended Madison’s second public reading, proclaiming Madison’s brilliance and potential as a mind-reader to Associate Sports Editor Ed Agranowitz. The joke resulted in two absurd and hilarious stories, said Argranowitz, which ran Feb. 11 and March 19, 1970.

—Compiled by Rebekah Jones, student business manager, rdjone03@syr.edu

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May 2010 graduates: Andrew Burton (Special Projects Editor, spring ‘10): freelance photographer, The New York Times, The Associated Press, Getty Images and The Star-Ledger Erinn Connor (Managing Editor, fall ‘08—spring ’09): general assignment intern, The Dallas Morning News Jared Diamond (Sports Editor, fall ’09): sports reporter, The Journal News Stephen Dockery (Editor-in-Chief, fall ‘08—spring ’09): intern, Center for a New American Security Tyler Dunne (Managing Editor, spring ‘10): sports reporter, The Buffalo News Matt Ehalt (Asst. Sports Editor, spring ‘09): intern, ESPN NY Meredith Galante (Editor-in-Chief, spring ‘10): features reporter, The Star-Ledger Will Halsey (Asst. Photo Editor, fall ’09—spring ’10): intern, Life, remappingdebate.org Kyle Leach (Copy Chief, fall ’09): sports editor, The Saratogian Conor Orr (Sports Editor, spring ’10): Jets beat writer, The StarLedger

courtesy of will halsey The Class of 2010 poses in front of The Daily Orange house at 744 Ostrom Ave. before commencement, It has become a recent tradition for all graduating Daily Orange editors to reunite one last time in front of the house.

Conklin spent several years hoping she wouldn’t die as the rickety copy porch crumbled off of The D.O. house.

1993

Scott McIntosh (Production Manager) won three awards in the 2010 National Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Contest: • 1st place, Community Service Award, Non-daily Division, circulation less than 6,000 • 1st place, Best Serious Column, Non-daily Division, circulation less than 2,700 • 3rd place, Best Feature Story, Non-daily Division, circulation less than 2,700 He is the owner and editor of the Kuna Melba News, a weekly newspaper in Kuna, Idaho, just outside Boise.

He owns the paper with his wife, Nicola (nee Giacchetti) McIntosh (Newhouse, ‘94), who is the paper’s publisher.

Nicola wrote a fashion column for The D.O. in the early ’90s.

The Kuna Melba News has now won nine national awards and seven Idaho Press Club awards in the last two years.

Although Scott and Nicola went to Newhouse together, they did not meet until 1994, when Nicola answered a help wanted ad for a reporter at the Carlsbad (N.M.) Current-Argus, where Scott was an editor. The help wanted ad was placed in the Newhouse alumni newsletter. They were married in 1997 and now have two sons, Luke, 8, and Robert, 5.

1993

Rob Owen (Lifestyle Editor) had a commitment ceremony with his partner, Justin Kidd, in May and moved from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Salem, Ore., where Justin works as an assistant attorney general for the Oregon Dept. of Justice. Rob continues to work as a TV writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Scripps Howard News Service. He freelances for The Oregonian in Portland and Variety in Hollywood and is open to other freelance assignments. Contact him at RobOwenTV@gmail.com.

1996

Rebecca Conklin (Copy Editor) became online editor of The Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, in May 2010.

2001

Christina DeNardo (Lifestyle Editor) is going to grad school after covering education for the past six years, most recently at The Palm Beach Post in Florida. In January, she moved back north and started a two-year program at the Bank Street School of Education in New York in elementary and special education. On her decision, she says, “I love it. No regrets.”

2002

2004

Kristen “Kizzie” Spanjer (Design Editor) is working in New York City as a graphic designer for The Corcoran Group, a high-end residential real estate company. Her work includes property brochures for celebrities/high-profile clientele, along with Property Books that are inserted into the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New York Post.

2006

Seamus O’Connor (Copy Editor) completed his masters of urban education at Long Island University-Brooklyn in September.

Dave Levinthal (Editor-in-Chief) now directs journalism and communications for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research and reporting organization. He regularly provides political analysis for CNN, PBS, Fox News, CNBC and National Public Radio. Before joining the Center for Responsive Politics, Levinthal spent seven years reporting for the Dallas Morning News.

2008

2003

2008

Ashleigh Graf (Managing Editor) married Jason Casassa on Sept. 25 in Bethlehem, Pa. She is the news editor at The Express-Times in Easton, Pa.

2003

Dara Pettinelli (Contributing Writer) is currently an associate editor at Babble.com. She was recently published on Ladies’HomeJournal.com, TheBump.com, BettyConfidential.com, CafeMom.com. She is an ASME Next board member and a former assistant editor at More magazine.

2003

Pamela Schultz (Copy Editor) graduated with a masters of social work degree from UNC Charlotte in May.

Liz Petty (Copy Editor) lives with her boyfriend in the Boston area, where she is an associate producer at Boston Productions, a media-production company that works with museums and visitor and interpretive centers.

She produces video and interactive media, associate produces on film shoots, and coordinates with clients.

Alex Shebar ((315) Editor) became the first community manager of Yelp.com in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July. He manages the community, writes the Weekly Yelp that goes out to 12,000 Cincinnatians every Wednesday (http://www.yelp.com/weekly), plans and throws kickass parties, and reps Cincy like it’s his job ... which it is!

2009

Matt Reilly (Asst. News Editor) is currently a 2L at The George Washington University Law School. This summer, he will be a summer associate at Cahill, Gordon, Reindel in New York, where he will have the opportunity to work in the country’s preeminent media litigation group and learn from First Amendment legend Floyd Abrams. As a member of The George Washington Law Review, he is writing his note on the First Amendment rights of schoolfunded student newspapers at public universities.

E-mail alumni@dailyorange.com to submit updates for the next alumni newsletter.

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Don’t sink to be totally online...

Don’t get wrapped up in technology... just good journalism!

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E-mail chains

There’s perhaps nothing more important to The Daily Orange than Google. From epic Gchat statuses to the all-important planning tool Google Docs, it’s safe to say Silicon Valley gave this generation of Daily Orange staffers more ways to communicate and organize than ever before. But it’s also given us one of most hilarious — and biggest — distractions from work, ever: e-mail chains.

Simple staffwide e-mails suddenly turn into an electronic venue for everyone to chime in with their two cents. From linking to a YouTube video of the Family Guy “Arson Beetle” to making fun of a staff member’s weekend antics, almost everyone seems to have a comment. And they don’t hesitate to reply all. It’s usually not until the editor-in-chief or managing editor calls out everyone for not working that the inbox stops filling up.

But don’t think they’re just for the younger crowd. While Gmail may not have been around in 1971, those editors are no strangers to a good old e-mail chain. An electronic invitation to the 40th anniversary celebration quickly turned into a hilarious e-mail chain referencing Botox, Bob Heisler’s Shoe and some cheesy puns using the letters “D” and “O.” You’d think that after seeing each other for at least 30 hours a week the current staff would have nothing to say via e-mail. Well, that’s simply not true. The possibilities are endless.

An e-mail chain about a staffwide Thanksgiving dinner? Thanks, fall 2008 staff.

All 12 pages now hang on the feature office wall. Or how about one that will surely go down in history from this semester, titled, “Who is the most dispensable assistant news editor?”

And of course there’s the annual Battle for the Bottles e-mail. Steeped in tradition and filled with testimonials from sports editors past, the Battle e-mail serves as a history lesson itself.

So here’s to you, e-mail chains. Thanks for providing us hours of entertainment and distracting the staff. Now get back to work.

—Compiled by Katie McInerney and Kathleen Ronayne, The Daily Orange, editor@ dailyorange.com

Media Cup gamer from 1971

“From The Morgue” was a D.O. feature that reprinted previous articles from that date. Published Feb. 16, 1971, this is the game story from when The D.O. sports section faced WAER’s Bob Costas and came away victorious. And the winning streak continues, sort of: After a nine-year drought for wins, the D.O. Hacks have taken the last two from the Talking Heads.

from the walls

D.O. staffers take decorating seriously. In the policy manual, there is a special section about the importance of wall decorations. Acknowledging the fact that decorations may be less than standard for the average office, the manual urges staff members to think twice before they take something down.

It seems that everything on the walls has a story. Many of those stories have been skewed or confused, but the root always remains the same.

The D.O. has a steep tradition with creative house ads as well. And former editors aren’t afraid to hide it. We went through 744 Ostrom and found some of our favorite ads. These ads took time, effort and thought. These weren’t space-fillers. These are too brilliant. Here are some of the best on the walls:

News sucks: By far one of the most hilarious and underrated things hanging in the feature office. Way to tell it like it is, I guess? And this fellow named “the Jip-master” seems like someone I’d like to know.

Teen heartthrob: How dreamy! Why wouldn’t you attend that news meeting if you got to meet someone like that? Sex sells, kids.

The Toms: An under-appreciated ad that’s a favorite of Managing Editor Kathleen Ronayne. We always struggle to find catchy nicknames for all of the Rebeccas on staff. Glad to see things haven’t changed.

—Compiled by Katie McInerney, editorin-chief, editor@ dailyorange.com