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Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers defeated Andrew Walter, former ASU quarterback and businessman, in the 9th Congressional District race Tuesday.
Cheers erupted from a sea of supporters inside the Club Downtown Tuesday night as Former Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego secured the Democratic nomination for the 7th Congressional District, which includes parts of Phoenix and Glendale.
A quarter-century later our oldest daughter, Leigh Munsil, served as State Press Editor. Our oldest son, Will Munsil, was a columnist while in law school, and another son, Michael Munsil, was a copy editor. I'm guessing 5 family members and 3 Editors is probably a family record. I certainly understand the technological changes affecting the newspaper industry and the need for digital news to move online.Nevertheless, it saddens me.
For me, State Press was college.
Read more alumni memories. I have too many memories to recall from my time at the State Press. But one that stands out is the day that ASU hired Bruce Itule as the Manager of Student Publications. The previous year there was a lot of tension between the previous manager and the student staff. He was a good man, but there was just bad chemistry. Bruce was the perfect pick, which was why I pleaded with the university task force to recommend hiring him, because of his solid newspaper credentials, even though they wanted someone with more university experience. Fortunately they made the right choice, hired the right man, and we all benefited, especially our student journalists. Steve Waterstrat Editor, 1985-86 Read more alumni memories.
ASU was where I was educated, but the State Press newsroom (basement of the Matthews Center) was where I was formed. I'm no longer a journalist by occupation, but not a week goes by where I don't use something I learned in that 'dungeon.' I'm on the hiring committee of a Phoenix law firm, and I regularly use skills I learned hiring student journalists for the paper. The peers, advisers, mentors and lifelong friends I made at the State Press still feature prominently in my life. Case in point: My first glimpse of my future husband came while I was covering a night cops reporting shift and he was with a group of dorm-mates carefully following all of the rules and procedures applicable to the Honors College dorms. He went on to become an opinion columnist and editor at the paper, and I progressed to city editor, managing editor, night editor (until the late nights got to me), and eventually editor-in-chief. Carefully preserving Tom Blodgett's poor, tortured fanny pack for future posterity was also an incredible highlight from those years.
Tom Blodgett let us know about the last printed issue. (Above) is a photo from the acknowledgements section of a new fiction book, "Jex Malone," that I wrote with my best friend and former State Press colleague Cindy Pearlman (1984-87). As you can see, State Press was our true home at ASU. Real, lifelong friendships came from that experience and it will hold a special place in our hearts forever.I have a million great memories from State Press, including a $1 bill from my first paycheck there. It was the first money I'd earned as a writer — and thankfully not the last. I've always felt privileged to earn my living as a writer and I owe so much to State Press. Best wishes to the whole crew — you have us cheering for you!
Marty Sauerzopf
What I took away from that day, however, was how comforted I felt by spending the entire day and evening in the dungeon. We watched the events unfold as a State Press family. We were shocked together and saddened together and worked hard together to put out a new edition from scratch. Especially with so many of us who didn't have family near us, we were each other's family that day and we were the ultimate comfort for each other.
It was a tradition that design/managing editor Ben Berkley — now a managing editor at The Onion — came up with to both promote good design and hold us accountable for bad front pages.
We had covered the presidential debate on campus from every angle our staff could handle. I was glad to have served as editor-in-chief that semester and that night, putting the final touches on our front page coverage of a too-close-to-call presidential race, I was so proud to work at The State Press.
Greg Archer
I went to the backshop and found the front page had a thumbnail-sized hole of white space in the middle of it. I pointed it out, and Amy said something like “I don't know, that’s what your dummy says.”
I learned more about journalism at The State Press than I ever could have in any classroom. Actually doing the work instead of just learning about it was invaluable. I carry on today many of the lessons I learned there.
I may be biased, but my favorite print cover of The State Press was Sugar Babies. One night I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business when our then editor-in-chief, Caitlin Cruz, called me over to look at my nails. Though slightly confused, I showed her them and she asked me to paint them red for a photo we needed the next day. Sure enough, the next day I was posing for the cover of Sugar Babies with some red lipstick, hot red nails and $2,000 cash in my hands. I believe we got the money from our investigative reporter's student loan check. The shoot also required some slightly awkward modeling poses with our sports editor, Edmund Hubbard. It was a really fun cover to put together and it was an odd but memorable experience to see my face on the front of every news box on campus for a week. Newlin Tillotson Reporter 2011-12 A&E Editor Spring 2013 SPM Editor-in-Chief 2013-14 Read more alumni memories.
Stephanie Conner
Read more alumni memories. Tim, the city editor, only had one reporter position left. It was down to two of us and we would do a try-out assignment. He gave me fans lining up overnight for Springsteen tickets. I rode my maroon Schwinn to what was then the Activity Center, did a few interviews, biked home about two miles off campus to write it and then biked back to campus around 9 p.m. with my story printed out the old, old, old fashioned way. In hard copy. On paper. It was all pretty exciting, plus I was wearing headphones and listening to Bruce, which is why I collided head on with another biker going the opposite way. We both flew onto University, but weren't hurt except for some scrapes and bruises. So, I wiped off about a zillion tiny, bleeding abrasions with the papers, walked my bike to the newsroom and handed in my copy. Everyone was so impressed that I was bleeding for the State Press job that I actually got the job on the spot. Four weeks later when the entertainment editor covered Hunter S. Thompson and ended up going away with him that night never to return to the newsroom, I got her job. The best job ever. I still remember all those hours living, eating, breathing, sleeping and dreaming in Matthews Center. One day Stephen King called and said, "I hear I'm supposed to do an interview with you Cindy. What's a state press?" Cindy Pearlman Entertainment Editor, 1984-86 Read more alumni memories.
While surely many others will share memories of the parties on the roof of Matthews Center, happy hours at Ozzie Warehouse and the printer closet, my most enduring images were on the job, covering the games, writing the stories and assembling the pages with strips and wax in the pre-pagination days. The editors signed the pages off with a blue pen, and it was a little source of pride to put your stamp on that day's edition, as was walking on campus the following morning and seeing lots of people make heading to a State Press bin their first activity.
I celebrate the last print issue of our legendary State Press recounting the paper wars of 1985.
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