Being an editor at The Oklahoma Daily can easily lead to bad grades and a lack of sleep because some editors make their job at The Daily top priority, a former editor-in-chief of The Daily said.
Except for the times he goes to class, curent editor-in-chief Chris Lusk is usually found in The Daily’s newsroom Sunday through Thursday, leaving him little time to sleep or have a social life.
Lusk is more than just the editor-in-chief of The Daily, he is also the design chief and editor-in-chief for The Daily’s pre football game publication, Inside the Huddle.
When Lusk took the editor-in-chief position he was enrolled in 17 class hours. He has since dropped to six hours, because he works about 70-80 hours a week at The Daily. With about 14 more hours to complete to graduate, Lusk plans to take a five-hour intersession class over winter break and the rest of his credits in the spring semester.
“It’s hard to be an editor, any of the top editor positions at The Daily and also be a top student academically because they put in so many hours here,” said Judy Gibbs Robinson, Daily editorial advisor.
Lusk usually gets to the office between 9 a.m. and ten and then leaves between midnight and 2 a.m., with the paper being sent to the printer around 10:30 p.m.
“I still get a fair amount of sleep I feel,” Lusk said. “Maybe it’s not your recommended eight hours a day, then again, we’re in college, so who is getting eight hours a day?”
Lusk concedes to not being able to have much of a social life, and says the one he does have revolves mostly around the people he works with.
Lusk hopes to attend graduate or law school after receiving his bachelor’s degree in journalism. Though, Lusk studied for the LSAT over the summer, his studies have fallen to the wayside because of his responsibilities at The Daily.
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