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Show Mailbox Yea 'Chrony' In the Chronicle mail box of September 26 was a letter from "some Chronicle Friends" very concerned con-cerned with late newspapers and publications council decisions. The letter noted several "blunders" that have been recently made by the aforesaid council. The blunders being be-ing myself, Ralph Mabey, and the selection of Lorraine Pres as the printers. I, too, question the publications publi-cations council's wisdom on these points but I shall concern myself now to only the latter problem . . . that of Lorraine Press. It is typical (from what I have seen in the past) for the Publications Publica-tions Council to request bids from various printer's selecting in the end, of course, the most economical choice as far as the University's (ASUU's actually) funds are concerned. con-cerned. Several factors have been left out of their decisions, however. Such small items as economy as far as getting copy from the Chrony office to the printers, who sets the press deadlines, and how efficient the printer is in setting the type. Several trips are made each day to and from Lorraine, each trip taking tak-ing at least 20 minutes, the past two nights the printers were so inefficient in-efficient that the staff members were required to spend the entire night with the Lorraine Press gang to get the paper to the university before noon . . . four and a half hours later than last year. My opinion is that the whole problem stems from the facts that (1) the Chronicle Editor has little or no say what so ever in the decisions deci-sions concerning awarding contracts, con-tracts, and (2) the members of Publications Pub-lications Council sit upstairs in the ASUU Offices and pass judgments with no voting representation from the Chronicle or the Utonian staffs. On top of that, those who sit as students on the council have had little, and . generaly . no , experience on newspapers of this type, much less experience working on the Chronicle staff in any capacity for more than a few days. The burden of the Editor could be lessened, or at least made less painful if the Editor were selected far enough in advance to have a say concerning bids and if the Publications Pub-lications Council had on its membership mem-bership rolls the names of individuals indivi-duals that have served on the Chronicle and Utonian staffs in a so called "headache" capacity for at least one term. Dennis Erskine Aherrations? Pshw! Dear Editor: There seems to be a great deal of publicity in the establishment press (including the 9-25 issue of the Chrony) about chromosome aberration ab-erration as a result of LSD. However, How-ever, in two seperate studies in Haight-Ashbury, not one case of chromosome aberration was found. (Los Angeles Free Press 8-18-67 column col-umn by Dr. Schoenfeld). Also, the new measles vaccine developed in the past few years and now in general gen-eral usage has been found to cause high chromosome aberration yet it has not been criticized by the press. Sherman W. Clow Sick? Dear Editor (sic), I enjoyed your paper esp. (sic.) about Henenesy (sic). But (sic) disagree dis-agree with your acid phisophy (sic.) Having taken LSD-25 (not cusley ?&) over 250 times an my wife taken it 125 times (sic.) Our 2 children are very normal and beatiful (sic) and probably wont (sic) ever have to take LSD because the wont be society stamped upon. As far as being burned out my brother Bob and I have writen (sic) over 3,000 songs and he's recorded over 200 of them some to still be released. . Love is happing (sic.) Dave Zimmerman |
