Alcalá 1979

VISTA STAFF

USD's campus newspaper, the VISTA, has suffered in recent years from increaisng student disinterest and a lack of administrative and academic support. Yet each year there is a core of students willing to put in the thankless time and effort of producing a newspaper, and who realize the necessity of the VISTA as our school's only public forum . Editor Tim Ryland was the veteran of the staff this year, it being his third full year with the VISTA. Assistant Editor Tom Korson, with only one semester of previous experience, stepped in to lend his invaluable time and writing talent. Others such as returning reporters Frank Antonio and John Carroll helped carry the load, while newcomers Gerry Korson, Vern lsmen, Anita Wilson, Frank Lowe, and Greg Smith, among others, stepped in to fill the breach. Photography Editor Mark Ryland, in his freshman year, served to over late copy, or late pictures, or reporters missing in action; pasteups Wednesday nights, dragging home in the wee hours of the morning to catch a few hours of sleep before arriving at school Thursday to pass out the papers; and realizing Friday morning that, after all, you're still enrolled in school: this is the bane and the salvation of the editors. The VISTA office, as well as the paper itself, took on a new look this year. Over the course of the school year the office, in the southwest corner of the Student Union, was painted, paneled, and curtained. All the work was done by the staff itself, leaving a legacy of luxury to future staffers. Next year, carpeting; after that, we'll take over the yearbook office . .. But despite all the travails, life on the VISTA is, on the whole, an experience of deep personal satisfaction in having produced a newspaper of which the staff, and the school, can be proud. The VISTA, whatever obstacles it may encounter, looks 264 to be the vox populi of USD for years to come. bring a standard of photographic excellence to the VISTA heretofore unseen. Working under deadlines is never easy, but it is a way of life with a newspaper. Laying out the pages late Monday nights; fretting