Creating a Science Section for the Technician
Dwuan June describes establishing "Frontiers," the Technician's first science section.
Interview on 2012-06-18 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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It was kind of weird that you have this newspaper that is on an engineering school but we have no science section in the paper. [Laughs]
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So you say, well, we should have some kind of science section in the newspaper, [Laughs] so that was my position. If I'm going to be editor we're going to create this section that's going to be about science. [Laughs]
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That was my main position, and that's what we did. We created a section called "Frontiers."
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We started off with the idea this was going to be just a half page venture but we started needing a full page for "Frontiers," a whole open page of space for this, so it was really a good product.
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We didn't know if it was going to be able to last after I left but they wanted to carry it on into the next editor's tenure. I don't know if they still have it now but it went better than I thought it was going to go over.
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We didn't have any trouble getting copy, as a matter of fact we even had another guy who wanted to write something for it, so I was very pleased with that.
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I thought we had an appetite for it but I didn't know we had that kind of appetite for it.
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