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Argonaut
Editor ]OHN B. H ucHCs, who did a fine job as the 61st Jason
The year 1956-57 was a year of expansion and exc1tmg
news events for the Argonaut, the student-administered
campus newspaper. It took a larger staff to cover a campus
growing in numbers and enthusiasm.
The Arg got its biggest scoop in reporting the tragic
news of the Gault Hall fire which killed three students.
The paper was the first to give the names of the dead students
and a full account of the fire which broke out
during early morning in mid-October. A special edition
was published and distributed on the campus early the
night a student confessed to setting a campus fire. It
was one of the Arg reporters, Paul D. Matovich, later convicted
of second degree murder in connection with the
Gault fire.
The widely read paper was quick and thorough in its
job of speaking for the students. The Arg backed future
expansion of the Student Union, continuously pushed for
more legislative support for the University, encouraged
a shakeup in student activities to eliminate needless organizations.
The paper, and especially the editor's Golden Fleece,
was outspoken and critical. It challenged Religious Emphasis
Week; asked for more administration consideration
for students in legislating policies, rules and regulations
which closely involved student life; advocated a more
loyal sense of belonging to the state university; and harped
about the mounting number of queens, weeks, events
and activities which involve student time.
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