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| `Hooter' brings news, offbeat humor to graduate students |
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by Susan Egeland
Many who pick up copies of the Jones Hooter will find that it is both informative and humorous. Launched by three graduate students of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administration last year, the publication provides news pertinent to the Jones School and serves as a forum for graduate students in its "Hoots and Hollers" section. "Everyone at the Jones School is invited to contribute to the paper," editor David Bixby said. "At this point, we have only had contributions from students and administrators, although professors have been asked [to submit]." In an attempt to expand the monthly publication, this year's Hooter editors, Bixby and fellow Jones School graduate students Chris Burkhart and Chris McCauley, sought to include more student submissions and cover subject matter that extends beyond Herring Hall. In its second year, the Hooter has no actual office and no formal means of distributing the publication. "We have a primitive distribution network whereby we leave papers on the windowsill in the downstairs hallway at Herring -- the only special deliveries are to the faculty floor and to the dean's office," Bixby said. While the Hooter 's primary purpose is to bring information to Jones School students, Bixby said that it also serves to "help the humor-challenged business school students develop beyond the classroom." At this point, the Hooter has met with some administrative concern over questionable language used in some of its features, but for the most part they have had the freedom to print whatever they have wanted to. "The very best part [of working with the Hooter ] is the laughs and the compliments we get as a result of our work," Bixby said. The editors of the Hooter contend that the publication has no affiliation with a restaurant of the same name known for employing voluptuous women as waitresses. Regardless, they opted to change the name over the summer since the name, which was "intended to be a joke, gives a negative impression before people even read the Hooter ," Bixby said. The editors have not selected a new name at this time, but the August edition of the publication bore the title The Paper Formally Known as the Hooter .
This item appeared in the Features section of the October 3, 1997 issue. |
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