The high school newspaper is discussed from four different angles: (1) the role of the paper, (2) the principal and the newspaper, (3) the adviser and the paper, and (4) the staff and the paper. Questionnaires were administered to the advisers and a college jury concerning such issues as freedom of expression, censorship, and the various roles of…

Contains guidelines useful for those planning to enter cartoon competitions and for those who plan to pursue a cartooning career. (JM)

Describes a mock libel trial held at North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, involving a question of whether a school newspaper may properly comment on a teacher's performance. Describes how the mock trial was integrated into various subjects, such as journalism, social studies, English, physics, art, and business. (SR)

Explains how high school journalists can serve as powerful leaders within the school by recognizing at least four journalistic functions of a newspaper: informing, explaining, analyzing, and persuading. (DF)

Analyzes the contents of a quality editorial of commendation'' published in a high school newspaper. (RB)

Notes that the planning of an effective entertainment page in a school newspaper must begin by establishing its purpose. Examines all the elements that contribute to the makeup of a good entertainment page. (RL)

Reports on an analysis of more than 200 high school newspapers which showed that only nine papers included humor on a regular basis. Uses excerpts from those nine newspapers to illustrate how humor can be used. (FL)

Describes the frustrations met by a faculty adviser in helping to put out the first newspaper of a new school year when most students have not yet returned to campus. (TJ)

Describes how the Antioch College newspaper staff put together a four-page section of color comics for one issue of the paper. (TJ)

The first year of the author's job as a high school newspaper adviser was marked by her overenthusiastic acceptance of responsibilities, a plague of printing mistakes, and a search for ways to instill standards of accuracy in student reporters. (RL)

Enumerates information that advertising sales people for school newspapers should have before they call on potential customers. Includes ideas on what to know about a number of items, including the publication, readers and nonreaders, advertising, sales opportunities, prospects, prospects' problems, shopping factors, and stores' images. (TJ)

Reviews good paste-up techniques for student newspapers; includes descriptions of necessary tools, how to do layouts, and how to finish by handling the wax on the paste-up sheets properly. (TJ)

Discusses the role of the critic in journalism and argues that student journalists should confine their critical reviews to professional performances and should write straight news stories of school performances. (TJ)