Word: harbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Publications Board, responsible for delegating about 10 different proprietorships, decided in favor of Chokel, instead of Miss Braeman. Chokel's group did have the stronger case, partly because all five men had written stories for the HarBus as early as October of their first year. Their backgrounds and journalistic experience were extensive. Chokel, for example, was the Princeton stringer for the New York Times...
...column." Duke has in fact done a competent job as advertising manager, in exchange for his page-three column "Proselytyzer for Capitalism: The Libertarian Viewpoint" where he promotes the ideas of Ayn Rand at least every other week. Duke said that the only two faculty letters to the HarBus this year have both been in response to his column. Loftin was taken on as business manager, through Duke's influence...
...most accounts, Stevens was given the number-one position by process of elimination. The other editors say he was not well qualified technically for a business position and, because he had very little journalistic experience, was not qualified to take charge of Careers or to be editor of the HarBus. So the only thing left was the position of publisher. It is no secret that the Publications Board decision was deadlocked for a long time and that Stevens's being a black student was ultimately a deciding plus for the group...
SOON after Chokel's group was designated as the next proprietors, a new Publications Board was chosen by the old Pub Board people. Oddly enough, Rosalyn Braeman and Joseph Publicse, who lost out to Chokel in the HarBus competition, were selected for the new Pub Board. The Pub Board sets up advertising ratios, advertising rates, and the minimum number of issues of the HarBus. The Board has complete control over the newspaper and can keep the HarBus proprietors in line by a variety of sanctions: from fining them to taking away the proprietorship. The usual practice...
...first major quarrels within Chokel's group resulted from Sean Withro's work on franchised publications during the summer. He subfranchised the Ski Guide, which brought in about $4000, under an arrangement where the HarBus would get only 30 per cent of the money. After making the deal, Withro wrote to the other proprietors and let them know what he had done. "The whole roof came down over the Ski Guide," Withro said, "with Jeff [Chokel] phoning from Chicago and insisting on changing my decision." In September, Withro's decision remained basically unaltered and he agreed to do the billing...