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20-RacordQoumal Meriden Cowl Tuesday January 9 1996 Single mom comes out on top Teens Studies es And believe everything you read she adds Make sure the information is complete and from a reputable re-sponsbile choice and check it against other sources to see if it jibes Long-term snrvivaL Keep a running lid of resources you use so you'll have addresses when you need them Jon the Internet community by participating in a listserve discussion group of a Usenet newsgroup in your field of interest (listed in the In-' tenet reference guides) They can help you find out what is gang on in your field who the experts are and where to find help when you have a tough problem Participation also is a good way to make professional connections that can help when looking for a job or applying to college spend all night surfing the says Farrington can be fateinMting but learn to use it like any other resource You still need your Dear Abby My mother thought this was incredibly rude and refuses to send this aunt a card next year She thinks it was cheap and people should have the decency to send each card in a separate envelope on the other hand say it would have been wasteful to send two cards in separate envelopes just two more postage stamps and envelopes arriving on the same day I wouldn't mind if I get my own envelope (My brother said be wouldn't either) Abby if you say it isn't proper etiquette my aunt will no longer receive Christmas cards from us A 12-YEAR-OLD DAILY READER DEAR DAILY READER: Your 'aunt wu not she was wisely conservative In addition she wu helping the environment by conserving paper a tree product Please show this letter to your mom DEAR ABBY: In response to "Hurt I wu married hi 1967 and I dearly remember my new mother-in-law taking me aside and Hying already have a mother so figure out a name for you to call me that you are comfortable with comfortable with' She set the stage for a wonderful relationship My father-in-law did his part too He introduced me to his friends "my That al- ways got a laugh from them and it made me fed warm and accepted In loving memory of Doris and Ar-mand Roto KIRSTEN ROTH PACIFIC PALISADES CALIF By Abigail Vnn Burnn Unwonal Press Syndtoata DEAR ABBY: In response to the single mother who is tired of getting 1 can certainly empathize with her I am 46 and have an 8-year-old child and 1 five from paycheck to paycheck because I don't receive child support either When I get de- pressed I play the your game and it changes my perspective That single mother who is just getting by is able to provide a comfortable roof over her head good food and nice clothes She wants to provide "better in life and she's angry because she afford dance lessons for her daughter She should realize that there are at least a million mothers on our planet who would gladly trade places with her I would encourage her to be creative teach the daughter herself She can turn on the radio and have tome of that fun she thinks only money can buy Where a will a way FRANCINE YACOUB IN DALLAS DEAR FRANCINE: You and many others pointed out that with a little creativity and help from others this single mother can provide quality entertainment for her daughter Many readers sqggested she consider church activities scholarships from the YWCA picnics in the park and visits to the public library to check out books and videos Among the other excellent sug-Sharehousing with anoth-single mother or senior citizen -for some of the things she needs trade baby sitting with another mother or baby-sit to earn extra money DEAR ABBY: A few days before Christmas my family received si Christmas cud from an aunt Enclosed in die same envelope were two birthday cards: one for my brother and one for me We both have December birthdays Mine is Dec 23 and his is on the 28th papers have cable" Even though other college students also say they rely on their campus papers for national and international news most papers use it to fill their pages because it is difficult to obtain enough college-related stories Since 1985 the National Student News Service a nonprofit group based in San Francisco has banked on that difficulty In its bimonthly letter the NSNS provides college newspapers with a larger more varied package of publishable material than the U-Wire The letter includes a combination of national news stories and features cartoons and crosswords and reprints of articles origi-nally published in campus papers across the country NSNS has been relying on mail" die United States Postal Service to send its 12-page publication to approximately 200 college newspapers But die director Bosania said that even in this computer-driven era there was plenty of room for both die U-Wire and his service The U-Wire excludes hundreds of college papers that on line and have E-mail Bosania said panting out that many of the smaller schools that subscribe to his service also do not have daily publishing schedules that demand such frequent news feeds Even so both the U-Wige and the NSNS have die same intention papers should put aside the stories and other national scandals and focus on campus Bosania said The pore people who put their efforts toward this goal the College From page 19 Columbia Specular involving Columbia University student who was reputed missing a report from The Michigan Daily of die University of Michigan at Ann Arbor oa a controversy about the Nike Cotp signing shoe contracts with NCAA teams and a series about alcohol abuse among college students that was first published in The Kentucky Kernel the newspaper of die University of Kentucky at Lexington Michael Lazerow a journalism major at Northwestern University in Evanston QL directs the U-Wire (It is not affiliated with the university) He began clipping stories from a handful of college papers almost two yean ago and mailing copies of them to several papers across the country But the stories had lost their timeliness by the time they arrived So Lazerow created a network that uses multiple Email transmissions both to collect news from newspapers and to distribute a package of die most newsworthy to each of the members (The U-Wire has its subscribers send their top stories via Email to itt electronic mailbox when their papers go to press at night) editors are busy because they also have classes and school-work to Lazerow said the filler who weeds out the baring stories" Several of the daily papers that have ptid the al fee to participate in the program still continue to pay an annual educational rate of $5230 to have access to a continuous feed of news from The Associated Press the largest wire service In fret some of the largest member papen qualify for the Associated reduced rate and are charged as much as 80 times the U-Wire's fee for AP news Rick Spending the Associated general executive for news-'1! membership explained that i of the breadth of their cov- certain college peers are regarded as local dailies "Some college papers have become more dim campus learning tools" he said that participate in their local markets are treated he same as other AP Student editors explained that the two news services serve very different functions While campus papers read Associated Press stories for na-1 tional and international news the U- Wire's daily feed provides them with stories that are not only unavailable in the metropolitan daily newspapers but are also more newsworthy to die college communities they serve interesting to see what the U-Wire picks up" said Josh Albertson die editor in chief off tbe Brown Daily' Herald at Brown University1 in Providence it's mostuse- fill for getting a general idea of going on at other Schools" And Blake Myers a- senior at Brown agreed that campus newspapers better serve their readers by printing college-related news instead Of AP stories Tt's interesting to see what the top stories are on other campuses" he said "As for nations! news I Tim Out recreational sports every Friday Record-Journal HOME 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