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Journal YOUTH EXPRESS Friday, May 2, 1997 ollese Bauer is 2 2TOOE dfor Syracuse University's Daily Orange has been publishing for 94 years It By Joel Stashenko I 10 9 any special persuasion. But we also brought along a couple of bottles of whiskey, and that was sufficient." The hot issues on the pages of the Daily Orange these days include the diminishing interest of students in their student government and the arming of campus security officers with batons and noxious gas dispensers, according to Andrew Phillips, editor-in-chief in 1996-97. Rubin says the Daily Orange has its strengths and weaknesses, 'vy "It is a paper I would read to see; what is happening in the student community," he said. "It is not a paper I would read to find out what is happening in the administration or even academically." cartoon ever published in a college newspaper. The D-O's first female editor-in-chief was appointed in 1939.

In 1954, it suffered an elaborate and embarrassing prank when staffers at Cornell University's Daily Sun in nearby Ithaca made up a phony edition of the Daily Orange and distributed it on the Syracuse campus. The stories included a yarn about Syracuse's football team being suspended by the NCAA and another about drinking being prohibited on the Syracuse campus. Dick Schaap, the writer and commentator for ABC and ESPN, helped mastermind the prank while at Cornell. "We brought eight or 10 guys with me, wrestlers and football players," Schaap recalls. "I wanted them along to demonstrate some muscle in case the printers needed similar to that at dozens of other highly regarded college papers throughout the United States.

They include the Harvard Crimson, the Indiana Daily Student at Indiana University, the Daily Texan at the University of Texas-Austin and the Daily Trojan at the University of Southern California, just to name four of the award-winning college papers mentioned by Ron Johnson, director of student publications at Kansas State University. Some are run by the universities directly, others independently by students. The rewards are the same, Johnson said. "They all have a common thread of giving hands-on experience to future journalists," Johnson said. "It's a trial by fire." The first Daily Orange edition appeared in 1903, and it contained what the paper touted as the first REMINDER: The Deadline Clock kesps budding Journalists on track at the Dally Orange, Syracuse University's flve-day-a-week newspaper.

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It was, Bob Heisler says, somehow the most satisfying job he's ever had. "The experience ruined me completely for real employment because I was the editor and the publisher and the style-setter at the same time," says Heisler, editor of the Daily Orange in 1971 and now a features editor at Newsday on Long Island. It is Heisler's size 912 shoe from which Daily Orange editors toast. Twenty-five years ago, he was the first editor to divorce the D-0 it's always been known on campus as "the D-O" from the Syracuse administration's support and control. That happened during the height of the Vietnam era, and at one point Syracuse's virulent anti-war students "struck" the university and refused to go to classes.

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