It also consented to confining its distribution within a three-block radius of the campus's main commercial street. And the Daily agreed that its paid professionals would be allowed to solicit advertisements only with students and only in the field ten times a year. Professionals should teach, not take over the operations. Indeed, it seems that professionals ran the Daily's ad sales department because students had too much of a hand in running the paper. During the three-year dispute, the publication had no consistent faculty advisers because some of the school's more dedicated print journalism professors had recently retired.
Some professional scribes agree.
The University of Missouri's student paper, the Columbia Missourian, consistently lures advertisers away from the local paper, the Columbia Daily Tribune. They've got the computer system, the new building from Knight-Ridder, and they're taking food off my table. Still, Robertson says his paper won't sue the Missourian. Michael Gonsalves, an Iowa State senior and vice chair of the Daily's publication board, is pleased the dispute is over. Though Ryan Kay, an Iowa State senior who chairs the Daily's publications board, insists that the Daily never intended to compete with the Tribune for readers, he doesn't think the student paper will retreat from the Daily's turf altogether.