Apparently schools send in copies of their campus newspaper to this conference ahead of time, and then stacks are arranged neatly on a table for readers to peruse at their leisure. It didn't take long for the stacks to fall into disarray, and that's how they remained for the rest of the conference.
One of our students remarked that it was probably wise not to send in copies of
The Current Sauce, because every paper on the table made liberal use of full color. The Sauce publishes in black and white, although we have started featuring spot color on the front and back pages every week. (Thank you, Bethany -- our business manager -- whose hard work makes
purple possible!)
Although we cannot yet afford to use it in every issue, we are planning to produce a Homecoming edition that features color photography, as soon as we get back next week.
Dr. Lee
Chad Stebbins of Missouri Southern State University opened his lecture by discussing the death of print media. He claims it is because “most newspapers are run by 50 and 60 year old men that “don’t realize what’s going on.” He showed a slide show of student newspapers from around the country. The newspapers exhibited new “outside the box” manipulations of headlines, fonts, colors, and images.
