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California State University, Fresno W^__,^W May 13,1998
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Farewell Insight, you'll be missed
by Melissa Bauermeister
Editorial Staff
Well, this is the last—EVER—
hoorah for Insight. It's a
little sad to see it go after
three decades but it's not
a sad good-bye because
7he Daily Collegian is coming home again.
The campus newspapers go back a long
time. They've recorded history as it unfolded
and given generations some insight to what
college life was like back then and what students deemed important.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the campus newspaper was basically a big social announce
ment. Top campus news items were promotion of the latest war drive campaign (in the
early 1940s), the number of men rushing fraternities, what school the football team was
playing against that weekend and royalty
elections for formal affairs.
In the 1960s, students took off the rose-
colored glasses they were taught to wear
especially in the second half of the 60s. The
Daily Collegian left the department 30 years
ago when "rock and roll" was being redefined, hippies were practicing free love and
radicals were trying-to reform the world. In
this time of great social pressure to change,
students, feaiing repression from the First
Amendment right to free speech, demanded independence. America's youth
wanted their new ideas to be heard. The
Daily Collegian was Fresno State's outlet so
it denounced faculty supervision and became a separate entity, Insightv/as created
at that time and competed against The Daily
Collegian.
By the mia-1970s, innocence died and
harsh reality set in. Reporters, on all levels, began asking hard guestions about real issues.
How do you think we all know about what
happeneP during the Vietnam conflict and
Watergate, the impact of Ronald Regan's
presidency and the controversy over Roe v.
Wade?
Now newspapers have a nose in just
about every event without rattling the conscience of their editors. Even at the univer
sity level, newspapers publish reports on faculty
misconduct, exposes on athletic scandals and
allegations of wrongdoing by the university.
Indeed, times have changed. And who
knov/s better than those who are engulfed in it
daily and tell it to the world? Insight has been
recording Fresno State's history right along with
The Daily Collegian. It's about time we brought
The Daily Collegian home to the mass communication and journalism department where it
belongs. The merger of The Daily Collegian and
the department can only bring good things. We
may finally have a guality publication that reflects the standards the university once had and
is trying to have again.
The Insight staff says a
final goodbye to the 29-
year-old publication
Stories republished
from the 1960s, 70s
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Bonus: Fresno State's
outstanding alumni and what
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How The Daily Collegian, Insight became one
by Cherie N. Arambel and
Brandie Scheppregrell
Staff Writers  „
The merger of
The Daily Colle
glan and In
sight was not a
difficult one to
establish. It came about as a
need for The Daily Collegian to
come out of a financial rut and
a desperate need for a larger
staff. In stepped the Department of Mass Communication
and Journalism.
For several years, the staff
of The Dally Collegian has
been steadily decreasing. But
according to The Dally Colle-
glan Editor Luis Hernandez. The
Dally Collegian staff is at an all-
time low.
Hernandez said this semester. The Daily Collegian only
had one full-time writer and
four part-time writers on the
news siae.
"It's so frustrating at times."
Hernandez said, in regards to
not having enough people to
hire at The Daily Collegian.
Hernandez gave three reasons why The Daily Collegian is
not a popular publication for
aspiring journalists to Work for.
Reporters find the cheap pay
that they receive for four hours
of work doesn't set well with
starving college students.
"If a reporter worked for
four hours he might only get
$12," Hernandez said.
Another reason is that writing doesn't come easy for
some. If you are putting your
name on It. the story has to be
well written. Hernandez said.
"If a reporter
worked for four
hours, he might
only get $12."
— Luis Hernandez
Editor of The Daily
Collegian
The third reason.
Hernandez said, is that print
journalists don't make much
money in the real world. Public
relations is the financial winner
in regards to media profession
choices. Hernandez said that
students realize how much a
reporter makes as opposed to
public relations practitioners,
therefore, they aren't prone to
write for a college publication.
Some on campus feel that
The Daily Collegian has been
deteriorating for some time.
University President John Welty
said he hopes the merger will
establish a respected newspaper in California.
"The merger will allow for
the development of a much
higher guality newspaper on
this campus." Welty said. "I'm
sure I'll enjoy the finished product."
Welty hopes that the
merger will create a newspaper tHbt is the best newspaper
If not in the California State University system, then in the state.
Dr. James Flanery and Dr.
James Tucker, both professors
of mass communication and
journalism, will be the advisers
for the new newspaper. Tucker
said he Is excited about the
"The merger will
allow for the
development of
a much higher
quality
newspaper on
this campus."
— John Welty
Fresno State President
"There is just something exciting about putting out a daily
newspaper," Tucker said. "My
only plan is to produce a paper that covers the news on this
campus. An independent paper, like The Daily Collegian, just
hasn't been working on this
campus."
The new newspaper, which
begins Pistribution in the fall
semester of 1998. will continue
to be called The Daily Collegian. Staff members may come
from any major, not just from
the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism
Department as allowed by the
governing document for The
Daily Collegian approved by
the Publications Board.
Other changes to the format of the paper's layout and
staffing are still up in the air.
Tucker said that even though
the merger has gone through,
the idea of one campus publication is still in the early stages.