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SURMISE & DISSENTHe sits in h is reclining chair, feet propped upon the desk,fiddling with a rubber-band, filling a pipe with tobacco and tryingto look serious all at the same time. Ali McGraw pouts from amagazine picture tacked on the wall above the desk next toa formal portrait of Chancellor Mitchell. A note on his bulletinboard reads : " Neil R. liked the edit. He said to keep it going."THE edit, in another corner of the bulletin board, is a lesson onpornography superimposed over the· picture of a nude woman." Being editor is like a terminal disease .. . you have one yearto live and you just hope you make it . .. " The blue eyes lookconfident. " At this point . . . " He's interrupted for a moment bya staff member wanting to know how some copy must be typed." But that's NOT what you said yesterday! " the irate typistannounces as she leaves the room. John Foster Berlet, betterknown as Chip, gets in the last word: " I don't have any sexisthang-ups. I can change my mind." The blue eyes sparkle.Now, about being editor of the 1970-71 Clarion. " Everyoneon your staff dreams about being editor at one time or another.And chances are he or she could run this newspaper just as well asI can. It's challenging, it's fun . . . it's STRANGE."Chip moves quickly into his philosophy of college journalism.College newspapers, he says, must start rejecting "bulletinboard" journalism and initiate advocacy journalism which has asocial conscience. He admits his editorship has brought a blatantliberal bias to the Clarion but stresses his staff's attempt to showboth sides of a story. The real problem, he says, is the difficulty infinding material to print with a conservative slant. Too manypeople are under the false impression that a liberal editorial policymeans a conservative viewpoint will not be published. This claimChip vehemently denies. A social conscience does not meansensationalism, he continues; it means exposing an injustice onthe assumption your readers will take a side on the issue (and NOTremain neutral) and will fight the battle out in the "arena of opendiscussion."To be liberal is to be anti-establishment, always questioningthe status quo for the review or change, according to Chip. It ismore like a necessary evil than anything else, he maintains. Theblue eyes turn sad for a moment and he adds, "You know, it'sone thing to say it's not healthy for everyone to be happy with yournewspaper (a sign of content apathy) but it's hard to take whenEVERYONE is mad at you."" I have stemmed the tide of inflation.We will feel the effects soon."Chip Bcrlet . . . . •.•.... . . . . .. ... . ..... Editor-in-ChiefSteve Lang ... . ..... . .. . .. . . . ....... Ma naging EditorEd Stein .. .. . ... . . .. . . . .. .. . . ... G raphics CoordinatorBritt Nelson . .. . ..•. •.•.. . . • . ......... Layou t Ed itorJay Lindsey .... . .. . •..... . •...... Production SupervisorJudy Leftwich .... . .•......•........... News Ed itorHenry Doering , .... ... . . .... . . ... .. . ... Copy Ed itorL.A. Heberlein . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . pccia l Ass ignme nts EditorAmy Srrassmcycr ......• .. . .. ......... Assistant Ed irorEll sworth Harpole . ..... . .. . .•. . .. .. .. . .. Sports Ed itorSteve Wille . .. ....... • ....•....... . ... Photo EditorGreg Hatfield .............. .. . . ...... Business ManagerBud Hamburg .............. . ........ Marke ting ServicesEditorial Staff: Ruth Cory. Mel Damski. Bill Fechteler. Gilda Gonzales.Pat Haworth. Jim Hirsh. Michael Hoops, Ralph Hughs. Jim Keel,Richard Kl ynn. Harris Kuhn, Mark Schwindt, Pat Stanford, JoeyStrogoff. Ellen Szira. Chris Wood. Photographers: Andy Haas. FredMueller. Andy Sylvia. Clarisef Staff: Stephen Gray, Linda Krese, JackMiller, Lynda Nurr, Gwen Raftery, Bruce Watson.Tho..• Dt·nver Cl.1rion b pub li s h ~ d by the All Umvcr!>i ty Studt!lll Asso ci.ltion ofthe Uniwrsn y of Dt.'nwr ,,:very Monday, \V edtll.:~dciy ,md Friday during theac.t d ~o.• •m c y ...·Jr t:H ...·pt dunng. fm .d !. pl'riod:,.h ~ conto..·n ts do not nc~.:ess.mly n:: flc c.:t the vk·ws of rhc students. facuhy oradrninistrct.tion .ll th.: Univc: rsity of lJcnwr.M"1h.•d ~ ub::.c..nption::. J.V.11i,1bk ,H S 10 p~r y~..tr.Ed1rori.d .tn d Bu s m~ ss o ffi cl:S Jrl' lol".Hl'd .n 2064 S. York St.. Denver. Colo r.1do80210. Tckphon.:s: Editoria l, (3031 753-3 131: ll us1nc.s. (303) 753-2086.Apphc.t u o n to m.til .It s~ cu nd cl.;~s s post.tge rat~::. is pl•nding at Ocnvl:r.Color,1 do.310