Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...only possible way to control this entente and correlate the offerings is to do as has been planned: appoint professional journalists to the executive posts. This removes something of the flavor of a student enterprise from the undertaking but provides the necessary unbiased mediator between the four very different institutions. However it is doubtful if men and womens' colleges, even when close neighbors, can have enough in common to provide material for a joint newspaper. College journalism is supported by the interest of the students in their own activities, but Amherst can hardly be expected to show a vital interest...
...stock of the newspapers. But the certificates were not turned over (TIME, May 20, 1929 et seq.). Soon after the disclosure of I. P. & P.'s venture, Partners Hall and La Varre quarreled, and Partner Hall sought an injunction to restrain Partner La Varre from obtaining operating control. To protect himself, Hall had to go to the court of appeals for a decision declaring him an equal partner with La Varre. But one J. T. Webb Jr. of Macon, Ga. was appointed by Federal court as commissioner to manage the newspapers pending their sale. La Varre ejected Commissioner Webb...
...governing body because of his editorials accusing Southern California of using professionals on its football team. Cambridge is too far away from such controversies to know whether there is any justification for the statements of the California editor, but the question as to the desirability of a body to control the policies of all student organizations is one which occurs at every college...
Such consorship of policies really transfers the functions of the editorial board to those who control all extra curricula activity and these in turn are often under the thumb of the college faculty. The hierarchy which is thus formed is an efficient method for political control and administration, but it completely destroys the independence of a college paper and much of its usefulness as an organ of student opinion. If editors are forced to fear the wrath of a higher authority, their editorials are bound to hedge on all controversial subjects and tend to be reduced below the level...
...Paternalism in a university is least excusable when it tries to prevent the expression of undergraduate ideas and opinions. Such control from above is most powerful at certain state universities in the west such as California, where, in the present case, the student editor was unfortunate enough to express opinions differing from those of his superiors...