STUDENT PUB FACTS

With a 12,000 press run each weekday morning of fall and spring semesters, the paper is one of the state's largest morning dailies. To help fund Collegian production, its student advertising staff sells more than $450,000 in display advertising each year. Another $250,000 in support comes from student activity fees. The fee serves as a subscription for K-State students, who pick up the paper at more than 75 drop-off points on campus and in Manhattan, as well as at K-State's Salina campus.

Collegian readership exceeds that of many commercial newspapers. More than 85 percent of K-State students, faculty and staff members read the paper two or three times per week, according to a 1998 survey of 357 respondents.

Up to 5,000 readers per day take advantage of the Electronic Collegian, www.kstatecollegian.com. Launched in June 1994, the eCollegian was the third college newspaper in the country to go online.

The fall Collegian launched three back-to-school editions on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the fall 2001 semester.

The summer Collegian is published Wednesdays in June and July.

The summer staff also produces an orientation edition for summer pre-enrollment.

Royal Purple yearbook

A staff of 14 students produces the Royal Purple yearbook, delivered to students at the end of the spring semester.

In addition to the traditional production aspects of copy, photography and design, the staff is also responsible for RP marketing and sales.

At 512 pages in the spring 2002 edition, the RP is one of the nation's most-renowned college yearbooks. K-Staters purchase nearly 5,000 books each year.

The yearbook staff also produces a DVD supplement with audio and video highlights of each school year, as well the New Student Record for incoming students.

K-State Phone Book

As soon as records become available in the fall semester, Student Pub produces the K-State Phone Book for students, faculty and staff. The directory usually goes on sale in late September.

The book also contains a section of student policies and procedures from the Office of Student Activities.

Technology

First installed in 1991-92, Student Publications1 Apple Macintosh computer system has been regularly upgraded and advanced.

Now on the network are more than 60 Macs, nine printers, color monitors, art scanners, photo scanners and portable notebooks -- using software for reporting and editing, graphics, advertising design and publication design. Student Pub now has one main file server and a Unix web server on its system.

Students take a leading role in researching and implementing the equipment. At some universities, a full-time staff member handles equipment maintenance. But at K-State, four students handle maintenance, service, repair and planning.

Awards

The Collegian and the Royal Purple are one of the nation's most honored college newspaper and yearbook tandems.

Five times in the past 12 years -- in 2000-01, 1999-2000, 1997-98, 1993-94 and 1992-93 -- both publications simultaneously won the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Awards -- the Pulitzer prizes of collegiate publications.

No other university had a newspaper and yearbook win Pacemakers in those years.

K-State was the only Big 12 Conference university to win a newspaper Pacemaker for 2000-01.

ACP Pacemakers are awarded to the nation's top three collegiate yearbooks of 300+ pages. Pacemakers also go to the top five broadsheet dailies.

Also winning a Pacemaker in the 2000-01 competition --in fact, winning the only Pacemaker awarded in the category -- was the 2000 Royal Purple CD supplement.

No other collegiate yearbook can match the Royal Purple's streak of top honors. The RP has won 15 consecutive ACP Pacemakers, and it has won 11 Gold Crown awards from Columbia Scholastic Press Association in the past 12 years.

Competing against other university student media, the 2002 Royal Purple won third place in the Best of Show at the Fall National College Media Convention. The 2001-02 Collegian won the Apple Award, for first place best of show from College Media Advisers, at the Spring National College Media Convention.

K-State photojournalists are the envy of other collegiate publications. Two 2000-01 photogs won second places in the nation's most prestigious collegiate photojournalism competition.

K-State designers are among the nation's best. The Collegian's design editor for 2000-01 was the only student to win an award in the Society for News Design's international competition for 2000. The Collegian's Nov. 8, 2000, front page of national-election coverage won first place in a national student-design competition. Two pages from the March 13, 2000, Collegian were recognized in "The World's Best-Designed Small Newspapers," a feature in the winter 2000 edition of Design magazine, published by the Society for News Design. Three times, a team of K-State yearbook designers has won top ACP design awards.

Student Staff With about 140 students on its payroll, Student Pub is one of the university's largest employers of K-State students. In fact, more than a fourth of Student Pub's million-dollar budget goes to student salaries.

The board of directors of Student Publications Inc. interviews and hires the Collegian editor, the Collegian advertising manager and the Royal Purple editor --Êall students. Student editors then accept applications, interview and hire student staffs that produce the publications.

We welcome applicants from all majors, at all academic levels, from freshmen through graduate students.

Professional staff

Two directors with split appointments and three full-time staff members work at Student Pub.

Ron Johnson, director of Student Publications Inc., is the Collegian news adviser. Linda Puntney, assistant director, is the Royal Purple adviser.

The directors are also faculty members who teach journalism courses, and the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications pays about half of their overall salaries.

Jackie Harmon and Wanda (Haynie) Allen advise the Collegian advertising staff. Harmon also coordinates advertising billing, and Haynie also coordinates advertising production and technology. Ann Foster coordinates personnel and bookkeeping.

Board of directors, 2002-03

Chairman / Todd Simon

Faculty appointments
Kristina Boone / agricultural communications
Michael Oldfather / economics

Students elected at large
Shannon Marshall / 2001-03
Job Springer / 2002-04
Nick Flenti / 2002-03
Jonathan Mitchell / 2002-03
Sarah Lovendahl / 2002-03

Student Publications
student appointments
Angie Danekas / Kansas State Collegian advertising
Jeanel Drake / Kansas State Collegian news
Kelly Glasscock / Royal Purple

Treasurer / director of Student Publications Inc. (ex-officio)
Ron Johnson

K-State students have the majority on the 11-person Board of Student Publications. The K-State student body elects five students to the board, and three members come from the newspaper and yearbook staffs.
Three faculty members serve on the board. The director of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications serves as the board chairman, and two faculty members on the board are appointed by University President Jon Wefald.
Two of the main functions of the board are selection of student executives (editors in chief and advertising managers) and financial supervision.
The board also respects the First Amendment rights of
the student journalists who produce the Collegian and Royal Purple.

A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications

An accredited school of journalism, the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications is a partner with Student Publications Inc. in journalism education at K-State.

Both are housed in Kedzie Hall. Publications advisers teach journalism courses. Journalism students also contribute to the Collegian and Royal Purple through their journalism courses.

Student Publications Inc. is an independent corporation, both financially and editorially. Its student editors are solely responsible for the content of their publications.