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From: gerber@mit-athena.ARPA (Andrew S Gerber)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss
Subject: Re: Corrupting youth: Conservative [sic.] Campus Tabloids
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 02:20:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 02:20:11 1984
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Well, we don't have any type of conservative newspaper here at MIT, in
fact, the student paper which I am an editor of, The Tech, is the only
real, regular voice on campus. (Ergo, an 'objecttivist philosphy' paper
is in the process of dying from lack of membership, In Focus, put out by
the InterFraternity Council, thinks that they are a newspaper but are
more of a newsletter for fraternitys, and they only come out once a
month, and Tech Talk, the house organ of MIT, is not a voice of the
student body at all.)

I don't think a conservative newspaper would do very well here, for
several reasons:

A) Lack of student interest

B) Lack of ad revenue. (The Tech has all national and most local ads
   locked up.

C) Objection on the part of the MIT administration to an outside
   sponsored newspaper on campus.

And I'm glad.  The Tech could use some competition, but with the way
courses go here and the load on each student, sometimes I wonder how we
manage to put out 24 pages twice a week (it varys according to ads --
can be as low as 4 pages or a high as 32).

			
			Andrew Gerber
			decvax!athena!gerber