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Show The Birth of a Voice A new and welcome voice was born on campus yesterday. The members of the Daily Utah Chronicle staff who quit the paper in protest of Ralph Ma-bey's Ma-bey's appointment put out a three-page mimeographed independent campus newsletter. Yesterday 500 copies were distributed and 1,000 have been promised prom-ised for today. The following introduction was carried : "This newsletter, though' it has no name as yet, is the precursor to an independent in-dependent campus newspaper. This letter and the newspaper which will follow it are to be published by members mem-bers of the Daily Utah Chronicle staff who yesterday felt compelled to quit their posts on the official University Univer-sity newspaper. They quit in protest of an action on the part of Publications Publica-tions Council which they felt was a blatant abridgement of freedom of the press. "Since a free press no longer seems possible under the aegis of the University Univer-sity administration, we feel we have no choice but to establish a paper for the students of this University, as a voice of the students, but free of administration administra-tion pressure or censure. "The success of this paper depends entirely upon student support and we could not dare anticipate any success were we not in our own minds certain that a sufficient number of concerned students on this campus will in fact come to our support. This paper is your paper, it will be the best of the former Chronicle and we invite your participation both as contributors and as readers." The Chronicle can only applaud such actions. There is a real need for this voice. Many times in the past year ideas have been presented for a two-paper campus. As any new voice, the letter is going go-ing through labor and growing pains. The Student Affairs Committee gave the students involved permission to circulate the letter yesterday in their regular meeting. The permission was a special consideration, one that is well deserved. The letter will have financial problems. prob-lems. The staff is willing to donate their time and efforts, but simple production pro-duction costs can hurt. Student contributions con-tributions are badly needed. Hopefully Hope-fully the studentbody will rally the financial fi-nancial support necessary. Both the newsletter and this paper are dedicated to the fact that Publications Publi-cations Council made a mistake in their selection of fall editor for the Chronicle. This issue we have in common. com-mon. Undoubtedly we will have other oth-er issues in common also. Hate, however, is not enough to maintain a second campus paper. Real and substantial issues must be found and used. Responsible journalism must be manifest. Both the issues and the journalism will be found and manifest, of this we are sure. There can be little truth to the rumor that the staff quit in the knowledge knowl-edge that they would be removed from the paper because of election violations. viola-tions. They quit for a cause. They voted improperly for a cause. It is a simple case of standing for the principles prin-ciples they believed in. |