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Long Mac Weekly nights
I fondly remember long Monday-Tuesday evenings at Mac Weekly, then sleeping in Kirk Hall overnight.
Dwight Esau
Lowering the Mac Weekly’s rope and bucket
As a third-generation newsman and editor of the Central High Times newspaper, which my dad had edited before me, I received offers to work on the U. of M. Daily, but chose the Mac Weekly instead. In evenings, keys to reach the Weekly office high in locked Old Main were lowered to staffers by rope and bucket. (Those hallowed offices disappeared years ago in the attractive remodeling of the building.) Our April Fool edition drove gullible students to complain to Dean Dupre about announced changes.
Lifetime lesson: Sometimes we staffers had to pull all-nighters to meet deadlines without sacrificing quality. Another real-world lesson: Years of consecutive All-America ratings by the Weekly were broken by a biased judge who worked, of all places, for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Larry Earle Teien
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