Orange Peal: the Voice of the Students

Schmuckler and Chase: Orange Peal PAGE 47 This year marks the 90th anniversary of PAGE 56 Save October 29 to 31 for Homecoming Week the Daily Orange. Alumni staff members look end. Adopt a student, attend workshops, or just have back on their years working on the campus ~ fun. And don't forget our inevitable victory over West newspaper and find they learned more than Virginia. Check it out in "Bright Lights, Big City." they'd bargained for. PAGE 60 Alumni clubs have been busy with a wide PAGE 50 Our alumni are busy people and variety of activities. No matter where you Jive, there's you'll be interested in sharing their accom networking to be done and new friends to make. plishments. See what your classmates have Find out what's doing in "Orange Grove.'' been up to in ''Class Notes.'' PAGE 64 The student broadcasters who staffed PAGE 53 Away football games this WAER , were vastly enriched by their experi fall frequently start with alumni get ences. Read what one alumnus remembers togethers. Here's the schedule. in "The Way It Was.'' THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS Bob Heisler '73 (left) of Newsday discusses the benefits of working on a campus paper with Marc Bailes. current DO sports editor, as they look at historic 1\'ewsday covers and photogmphs in the paper'~ lobby museum. Inset: In 1973, Heisler shared a light moment with then-managing editor Barbara Beck 73. By dawn on that Saturday in 1971, the new student editors of the Daily Orange were pulling at their collars, stifled by the heat and smoke (seems like everybody smoked something in those days) in the grubby little house on East Adams Street. They looked considerably more bedraggled than when they'd arrived 12 hours earlier. By now their bell-bottoms drooped, their eyes felt gritty, and they still had ll many hours of work ahead. 47 Published by SURFACE, 1993 1 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 10, Iss. 1 [1993], Art. 11 0 Daily Orange will cele "I tell people my grades in woman editor-in-chief of the brate its 90th anniversary college weren't so good Daily Orange. "I learned I as the voice of Syra because I majored in school could accomplish whatever I cuse's students. It's a newspaper," laughs Larry chose if I worked hard responsibility few who Jalowiec '82 (NEW) of enough and was dedicated," worked there over the Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a she says. R decades took lightly. Not former DO managing editor. Angelino and the rest of surprisingly, many "I knew the only way to get the DO staff were profound became professional a good job in a newsroom ly influenced by world journalists. But even was by having experience." events. "The war clouds those who didn't were Jalowiec remembers the were gathering in 1939," she profoundly affected by stories he covered as "exhil says. "We left in June totally their experiences. arating." He says, "The Carri unaware, but when we came Whatever their occu er Dome was being built, back in the fall, the world pations today, DO alum Abbie Hoffman came out of was different. " Mike Greenstein '70 says one of the best things about his job as editor of an alternative news ni point to the profes hiding, and John Lennon After a career with the paper is that he can set his own agenda-and sional and personal skills was killed. There was great Wall Street j ournal, Angelino also wear jeans to work, just like in the old they perfected through camaraderie and the DO was became a librarian and days on the Daily Orange. this extracurricular activi very much a community. But recently retired as director of N "If we had known what it ty. While they were serving the most important thing the Oneida (N.Y.) Public took to do what we were as the voice of the students, was that when I graduated, I Library. going to do, we never would they developed voices of was far ahead of my non "If I had not dealt with an have done it," admits Bob their own. DO peers." around-the-clock career at Heisler '73 (A&S/ NEW) of Today Jalowiec sits on the the DO outside the class that frenzied October week In a profession that particu corporate management room, I would never have G end. As the new editor-in larly values real-life experi board of publisher Press been able to handle crank chief, he led a renegade ence, several alumni gained Enterprise in Bloomsberg, ing out a daily cartoon strip Daily Orange staff struggling irreplaceable professional Pennsylvania, and is also the today," asserts Robbin Ann to master business decisions credentials working on the editor of Eastern Pennsy lva strong '85 (VPA). as well as editorial judgments. Daily Orange. nia Business journal. Armstrong originated the It was a pivotal moment. "When you edit a weekly DO strip Hector and was E The Daily Orange had just paper, you must be a gener The personal skills staff declared its independence alist," says Mike Greenstein members developed work from the University adminis '70 (A&S/NEW) of Syracuse, ing on the DO also served tration, and he and his staff former DO sports editor and them well in later years. Sev were the first selected solely columnist. "The Daily eral credit the experience by other students. They had Orange taught me to do one with instilling work habits to prove themselves. thing one day and some that have lasted a lifetime. "We learned how to edit thing completely different Betty Donnelly Angeli and publish on the fly ," con the next. I got my current no '40 (A&S/ NEW) has fid es Heisler, who today job because I could do that. " never forgotten the responsi manages special projects and Greenstein now edits the bility she carried as the first new products for Newsday Syracuse New Times, p on Long Island. "Business the city's alternative concerns like selling ads and weekly newspaper. negotiating printing contracts Jerry (Edna) were thrust upon us." Askwith '34 (MAN) This reborn Daily Orange of Washington, D.C., reflected the turbulent Viet found the Daily E nam era. "We questioned Orange like working and challenged everything on a newspaper any about Syracuse and our place. "We worked lives," Heisler recalls. hard and were ve1y professional," she That fledgling crew estab says. Her DO title lished the pattern for a new was women's editor, A breed of independent Daily though she says she Orange staff members, but functioned as man they also followed a tradi aging editor. Now tion of journalism at SU dat retired, she's written ing back to 1903. for a wide variety of In 1939, reporter Betty Donnelly Angelino '40 interviewed European journalist Dr. Gerhard During Homecoming groups throughout a Schacher abo ut the possible German invasion of France, Holland, Belgium, and Denmark. L Weekend this October, the busy career. Inset: Angelino recently retired from a career with the Oneida (N.Y.) Public library. 48 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol10/iss1/11 2 Schmuckler and Chase: Orange Peal DO staff when many I N THE 0 men went to war. "We not only survived, we B EGINNING. were the number-one college daily in the countty that year," she says. "I discovered I was R good at working with people, a skill I use in a different career today." After years as a jour nalist, Lucas became a teacher of neurologically A impaired children for the Hackensack, New Jersey, board of education. "The Daily Orange was our activity, our The Daily Orange office in this 1950 photo seemed busy and exciting. noncredit class, and our We don't know who these people are. Do you? N art director of the paper. fraternity or sorority all Today he syndicates jump rolled into one," reminisces When it was born in September 1903, the Daily Oranges Start to 150 newspapers Sid Hurlburt '61 (A&S/ avowed purpose was "to report news and promote school nationwide and is an art NEW) of Reston, Virginia. spirit." It encouraged students to ask, "What do I owe to the director for the Weightman "Why did we devote so University?" Group, a Philadelphia adver much time to it? Probably By 1912 the struggling daily was in debt, and in 1921 the DO tising agency. sheer stupidity. " printed its own front-page obituaty and shut down. A week G Armstrong says only those While DO editor-in-chief, later, however, it reopened, thanks to mandatory student sub few with unusual tenacity Hurlbun explains, "I realized scriptions. break through in cattooning. that in a field in which not After World War II, enrollment at SU swelled and the DO "There are lots of talented many people are interested prospered. During the fifties, the newspaper began critically people in the world, but it in management, I could examining issues important to SU students and the world, an takes perseverance, even stumble my way through. approach that persisted into the Vietnam War era. Reflecting E more than talent, to make it. I've spent most of my pro the confrontational attitude of the entire campus, the DO sup That's what I developed on fessional life as a manager/ ported the infamous 1970 student strike that shut down campus the Daily Orange," he says. planner/ budgeter/ external in the spring and cut shon the academic year. relations person." There were repercussions put in place by the administration, W orking on the Daily Hurlbmt, editor of col and in 1970 the paper declared its independence from the Uni Orange gave many staffers umns for USA Today and a versity.

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