Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mit-athena!gerber From: gerber@mit-athena.ARPA (Andrew S Gerber) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss Subject: Re: Corrupting youth: Conservative [sic.] Campus Tabloids Message-ID: <44@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 02:20:11 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-athe.44 Posted: Thu Oct 18 02:20:11 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 04:50:41 EDT References: <1039@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 28 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