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~ To Buy A · Subscription. Dally American P.O, Box 729 Mpls.. Mn. 55440 I ~,ear.. ,$30.00 6 r~o.ths.,....$15.00 ..... ~,.o~,,..~...~o VOL. 18 NO, 174 THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 198[ Published Daily Mort. thru Fri., Except P.Q. Holidays fWD Ex-Students Drain $50,000 From of M Daily To Sue The .Regents x"We're suing ourselves," State- ~at exceed $607,000 in value; tile presentative Johr~ Weaver charged in investments earn about $70,000 in interest other attack on. the disbursement of income each year. payers' and students' rnooey from tile Over a year ago, Weaver asked the state University of Minnesota Daily to financ~ a auditor to investigate the use. of Minnesota ~,vsuit by two former campus newspaper Daily treasury funds for the lawsuit against · itors against the U of M Board of Regents. the University. mThe two former editors, one of them Kate "1 felt it was an abusive use of authority by Stanley who has been employed by the Star- the Student Board. of Publications. I made ilibune ~o write editorials, are paying their that request to the legislativeauditorandthe ~gal expenses with $50,000 from the legislators denied the request," said Weaver. ~rnpus newspaper treasury. The other He said that the legislative committee former editor is Jeff Goldberg, now working argued that the use of the funds was a legal ,~,r the Louisville Times in Kentucky, To give ~ case a bit of University flavor and attempt _ : ,,, CONtINUeD, O~,,,AO~ ,2 ~justify tile expenditures of public money, t-fie c6rrent Daily editor, Michael Douglas, as i i wellastheDailyitselfandtheUofMBoardof NO Pile Of Junk Is lblicaUons are Johnny-come-lately intiffs. ' Their suit is attempting to overturn a ruling by the Board of Regents which allows Iideflts to demand reimbursement of bscript~on money for tile cafnpus paper ~en from ti~eir tuition. The Board had made the ruling after an iioac over a "humor" issue in which the ily macle fun of religion and other 'titutions. Before that ruling, students were compelled to pay for tile Daily out of li~Iion fees whether they wa nted the paper or IThe two editors maintain that mandatory student fees are necessary to keep up tile circul3bon. IRepresentative Weaver disagreed. "Tile Minnesota Daily really doesn't need that money," he said. "There isn't any iustification for the paper to accumulate loney at the expense of students who are ready hard-pressed to pay for an lucation." He said that tile State of Minnesota I)proCriates almost $220,000 for the niversity publication each year. The niversity itself buys over $30,000 in sobscriptions for faculty metal)ers out of the i~oney, Weaver said. The Min'nesota Daily has retained earnings f more than $933,000. Its excess cash is invested in income-producing securities Going To Beat Me" Since the Daily American started its campaign to sell 500 annual gift subscriptions, more than a hundred politicians and bureaucrats have been included in the daily circulation files. Some Of the government people have been so impressed by the D.A.'s work that they have paid for their own subscriptions. The gift sub then is transferred to another person. The campaign is designed to raise money to obtain a talking robot -- a computer that searches and discovers "thinkin~ people" who would be most likely to become subscribers of the D.A. and increase the Newsletter's circulation. The robot will change the whole subscription sales operation of the D.A; to upward bound. Salesmen now spend 90 percent of their time searching and discovering the "thinking people" and 10 percent on talking to those they discover. The talking robot will dial phone numbers all day. talk to thousands of people, ferret out the 10 percent and turn CONTINUEO ON PAGE 2