Show We Don't Go For Crumbs We are in receipt of a printed in the to the which criticizes the Chronicle for treatment of the Phi Beta Kappa story in last week's We're sorry we offended the intellectuals but we feel we have a right to be slightly miffed as well as Consider the We picked up a Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday morning and noticed printed therein a story of great campus the choice of Phi Beta Kappa Prior to that time we had no inkling that the choice was imminent no member of said organization had been near the office to tell us or ask for Wednesday morning too late to get a picture publicity Chairman for the late give Might Do Some Good a story any The paper had been dummy made headlines written and spaces What could we You think we should have known they were to be Perhaps we should but we can't recall that there has ever been any set date for such Of course we have mobs of eager reporters who could contact the group every day and all the rest of the thousand groups on the Or is it asking too much that an organization let the paper know it wants publicity before Wednesday Phi Beta Kappa put us on a spot and now blames us for lack of We like breadcrumbs from such an organization but we can't quite feel disrupting our entire paper for those Couldn't we have thrown out another story for this but is it fair to cut a group which has been planning with us for publicity for a group that expects us to pick a story up from the Tribune at the last Would it have been right to cancel the picture and story for a rewrite and borrowed picture from a downtown The authors of the letter certainly have a point we don't deny had the story been released to us it would have received top publicity in the It is ve but since it had already appeared in Salt Lake papers it was treated as which it We're not trying to compete with downtown but what is the sense of publishing Di Phi Beta rr Kappa tj- Has a school paper which is a re- write of Lake It No Room For Complaint would be just as well to tack clippings on the bulletin board in front of the Park We depend upon exclusive news for a successful There is no reason why important stories shouldn't be printed in the first and then especially since a story such as Phi Beta Kappa has three times more interest on the campus than Salt Lake papers' have always been willing to pick up and publish important campus news from the Any group loyal to its school would want to cooperate with the school But such is not the The Chronicle has been trying for the last 10 years to make Phi Beta Kappa see its We've tried time and time again to get their stories but since we can have they been given to That is the answer to the Had the group come to us and asked for given it to us we would have given them a large picture and considerable As a matter of had they ever treated us fairly in the we would have given more space than we No member of Phi Beta Kappa has ever come near this every story we have ever run we have rewritten from downtown In we're willing to give our full cooperation to anyone who cooperates with us at least half the but we are not willing to knock ourselves out for an organization which has consistently refused to |