6 Anniversary Supplement Thursday, February 23, 1078
A typical atypical
'Tar Heel' day
The pictures on these two pages show what
f appears to be a neat, clean operation. Lest
anyone believe that the production of the Daily
Tar Heel is a neat, clean operation, allow me to
dissuade you; one look at the office shows that
we're a bunch of slobs.
As anyone who has entered the office
between 3 and 7 p.m. can testify, it's a
madhouse. Reporters arc working on
assignments. Photographers talk shop. Editors
shout usually with profanity for copy and
headlines.
Some 50 student reporters cover their owl) V
beats, much the same as reporters on city dailies
do. And much to the distress of some .
"sources," the DTH reporters are no less
relentless in getting their stories.
From these stories, the department editors '
, pick the best or most timely and plug them for
inclusion in the paper for the next day. As
readers have noticed, we run small papers, and
competition for stories is keen.
By evening the reporters have left to study,
or drink or something, and the editors settle
down to lay out the pages. If all goes well, the
editorial page is finished by 5 p.m., the inside
pages are tinished by 7 p.m., and the front page
is completed by 9 p.m. How often does all go
well? How often does the sun rise in the West?
When there is only a handful of editors left in
the DTH office, most of the action is in the
composition shop, located in the basement of
the Carolina Union. There, the stories are set
on a typesetter which punches out something
like a ticker tape, which is fed into a
remarkable little widget which reads the tape
and produces the story on glossy paper as
it will appear in the paper..
The printed copy is then pasted onto a sheet
exactly the same size as the printed page of the
DTH. This work is supposed to leave the
composition shop at midnight, when it's picked
up by an employee of Hinton Press in Mebane,
30 legal minutes northwest of Chapel Hill.
How often is the paper ready at midnight? It's
now 1:56.
At Hinton Press, the page is photographed to
produce a 15x21-inch negative, which is
checked for stray marks, before being used to
make a printing plate. This plate is placed on
the "offset" press and is used to print 17.5(H)
DTH.
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Applications for
Student and Faculty
POSITIONS
on
0 lathi ar BM
Board of Directors
Are Now Available
Appointments to The Daily Tar Heel Board of Directors consists of:
One student appointed by the Student Body President and approved by the Campus
Governing Council to serve during the term of that President;
One student appointed by the elected editor of The Daily Tar Heel to serve during the
term of that editor;
One student appointed by the Media Board to serve a term of one year;
One student appointed by the Board of Directors itself to serve one year;
- One individual to be chosen at large by the Board of Directors to serve two years; (filled)
One faculty member from the School of Journalism; (filled)
One faculty member from the School of Business Administration.
Applications for Student and Faculty
positions on The Daily Tar Heel
Board of Directors and additional
information may be obtained from:
Miss Claire Bagley
Business Manager
Offices located on the first floor of
the Carolina Union
933-0252
Applications Due:
(Wednesday)
MARCH 1, 1978
Appointments Effective:
(Saturday)
APRIL 1, 1978
The Daily Tar Heel Board of Directors is a
seven member board of students, faculty
and community members, established April
1, 1977, that is responsible for overseeing
the financial affairs and non-editorial
policies of The Daily Tar Heel. The board
usually meets twice monthly to review
operations. All interested are encouraged to
apply. Previous work experience with The
Daily Tar Heel is not a prerequisite.