Show Skeleton Crew Last quarter two editorials appeared in the Chronicle deploring the lack of student Our need for was not diminished but is steadily growing since many students who started on the Chronicle last quarter find it increasingly difficult to spend time on their several reporters have quit others replaced by students who will And precious little interest is from the work in Voice of By of student we don't mean strictly a numerical dearth of the word journalist means somewhat more than aspiring The number of students who now work on the Chronicle would be sufficient to equalize the responsibility and burden no one if they were all willing and able to assume an equal share of the students cannot be expected to do even reasonably high calibre newspaper work when their training includes only what they have picked up from busy sub-editors on an under-nourished college A vague possibility as to why so few competent student journalists apply for work on the and why an even smaller number report may be found in rank rumors afloat on the campus that favoritism or is required to obtain and retain a staff The fact is that the best way to keep on writing terms with the editorial staff is to And the only method we know to do this is to work hard and work No one has been dismissed from the Chronicle staff because of personal reasons or because his stories always must be Refusal to try is the only legitimate justification for We continue to welcome industrious new staff regardless of what ex they have had or what affiliations they The trouble with the university journalism it is not entirely with students themselves but with a cur- which does not afford them a chance to learn newspaper work until they reach upper division when only one class in the is then Handled now by the English de- journalism would require a separate school enlarged to a great but several additional classes could be offered with no revolutionary reorganization Striking at the base of Dr Robert journalism has set forth a plan to the English department whereby freshmen could substitute a course in English and for the regular English 11 English credit toward graduation would be given and a comprehensive course in the art would be obtainable on this campus for the first time and available for those students who could use it to greatest This plan is worthy of deep and its author has the Chronicle's hearty commendation for his |