Spectator

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<p>Does anyone know whether undergrds can work on the school's daily newspaper?</p>

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<p>Definitely! I'm just a perspective, so I'm not an expert, but the admissions office gave me an email address and two or three editors emailed me back with the answers to all of my questions. Give them an email!</p>

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<p>Excellent. Thank you. Should have thought of that myself!</p>

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<p>ONLY undergrads can work at the Spec. In fact, they're not even allowed to have GS students on the staff, although i think that rule gets bent every now and then.</p>

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In fact, they're not even allowed to have GS students on the staff, although i think that rule gets bent every now and then.

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<p>One of their regular columnists is in GS.</p>

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<p>So grad students can't work at the Spectator?</p>

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<p>nope, not even in a support role. I was IT director there for a few years, and tried to bring a database specialist aboard who was a phd candidate in CS, and the managing editor told me I couldn't do that because it's in our charter as an undergrad organization that takes money earmarked for undergrads.</p>

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<p>there are a bunch of gs students on staff at the spec (and eye).</p>

<p>i think there are two columnists out of gs this semester.</p>

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So grad students can't work at the Spectator?

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<p>there was a sex column in the editorial section by a phd student this week:</p>

<p><a href="http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/03/05/Opinion/Embracing.Your.Inner.Slut-2757422.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/03/05/Opinion/Embracing.Your.Inner.Slut-2757422.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>......the article is bad, especially considering he's a grad student.</p>

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<p>i'm currently on spectator's managing board, and i can assure you that we do have GS students on staff. what's more, spectator is financially independent from the university, so there aren't external rules by which we have to abide when choosing our staff. that being said, the paper's regular staff is undergrad-only. grad students sometimes submit pieces to the opinion page, and our current sex columnist is a grad student (although this is uncommon).</p>

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<p>Well, C09, you and I know exactly how "financially independent" an organization it is, but we'll save THAT talk for another thread. =)</p>