Creative Entertainment Is Bison's Pu rpose For the Bison, this year was a building season. A new editor took over the newspaper office and opened the doors to an almost entirely new staff . " \ feel like a lot of my job now is to train new people so they can move up and take over when we're gone," remarked editor-inchief Laura Brown, Brown, who se rved as assistant editor the previous year, noted some of the changes that were made on the Bison during her term in office. The biggest c hange was getting rid of the Fifth Column, a sat irical feature that poked at common happenings on campus. " J udges think it 's unprofessional," Brown said. " We have enough humor in other co lumns to continue to appeal to the reader's funny bone," Added to the Bison was the Digest, a brief yet informative section relating sign ificant local and world news to acquaint Harding students with events of the outside world. Walter "Butch" Florence added a new touch with his in-depth political column. Brown com· mented, " Very few people have walked through the Bison office doors with a real hunger for political news. Butch has that hunger." The Bison occasionally ran a Forum which aired student opinion on various issues related to Harding life. little va riation was made in 102/Bison regard to layout in an effort to maintain consistency. Brown did choose to c reate an occasional center spread related to one large theme. She was particularly interested in the more contem· porary magazine layout styles that some weekly newspapers had adopted. The staff realized that the main purpose of the Bison was to creatively entertain rather than whoIly inform. Brown agreed because there was "an annoying lack of big news. " As a resu lt, feature stories often appeared on the Bison's front page, the featurized approach that many contemporary newspapers made use of. The Bison received a First Class rating in the 1981·82 school year and continued to strive for the prized All-American award. When asked about her asp ira- .. _._-_._- .. _ Chris Dei
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