If I wrote a negative review, the faculty adviser would either not print it or would have parts of it cut out so it wouldn't offend advertisers. The same went for on-campus productions, notes Porte, now a professor of communications at the University of Cincinnati. The Waa-Mu show was a sacred cow then, and no one had the nerve to say anything negative about it. Thrown into the advertising mix is the fact that Evanstonians at large make up a big portion of the readership. We got a bunch of letters and calls from that story.
Students have so many more opportunities.
The better job market means students are getting the internships they want during the summertime. And during the school year, she points to the decision to merge the magazine-style supplements as evidence that recruiting is getting harder. Most staffers tend to be Medill students, but no thought is being given to going the route of many prestigious programs, such as the University of Missouri School of Journalism. There, only journalism students work on the school's paper, which is distributed campus-wide, and they must do so for academic credit. Here, our staffers do it for the story, not for the grade.