🚀 go-pugleaf

Whew! glad that flame fest of CACM is done.

I'm pretty new to the ACM, but nevertheless, I've been elected the
chair of the student chapter here at New Mexico State. One of the
projects that I want to try and accomplish is the establisment of a
student chapter newsletter or paper. I've been fighting the dead and
dying chapter syndrome, and I think one of the problems is that many
students just don't know what the ACM is. I think that a
newsletter/paper may be one of the best ways to get a little more
involvement. I've been toying with some column subjects that include
humorous light reading, and serious ACM-type informational articles.
I'd like to get some input as to what students would like to see in a
(monthly? bi-monthly? what works best?) publication. Ok folks, here
goes my ideas:

Subjects:

 frumpy in depth research reports
 research reports of other (not CS) departments applications of
   computers
 new hardware, software etc.
 a short story series (like a soap opera -continued next issue-)
 Computer joke of the month
 UNIX/DOS/VMS/whatever tip of the month, tricks, shortcuts etc.
 Personals??????
 notes from the presidents desk (come on, it's got to have this!)
     which would be local ACM news.
 tales of a co-op hell - experiences from students just returning 
     from co-op jobs.


Anyway, these are some of my ideas for articles, however, it looks
like I'm going to be the principle author/editor/publisher 'till the
group gets rolling. Dont' like my ideas - flame 'em. Like 'em - let me
know. Any new ideas - post 'em.

see 'ya
		Woody

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