The Newspaper Study Committee has completed its review of the relationship between the Iowa State Daily and Iowa State.

The committee was created as part of an agreement made in May 1998 between ISU and Partnership Press, Inc., then-owners of the Ames newspaper The Tribune.

The agreement came after legal action was taken by Partnership Press against the university.

Tom Emmerson, professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication and member of the committee, said Partnership Press contended that the Daily had “gotten away from the idea of a student newspaper and looked at itself as a citywide — if not countywide — paper.”

Emmerson said the judge in the case decided to create the committee and provided a set of issues for the committee to address.

Members of the committee were agreed upon by both parties in the suit.

The five-member committee submitted a 31-page report to ISU President Martin Jischke in September.

The report included the committee’s conclusions and recommendations based on five public half-day sessions held from January through August.

“It wasn’t just five members speaking their own views,” said John Eighmey, chairman of the Greenlee School and member of the committee. “We met with many other parties.”

Those parties included students and professional staff from the Daily, Partnership Press, the Government of the Student Body, the Daily Publication Board, Inc. and ISU faculty members and administrators.

Allison Engel, journalist and author from Des Moines and graduate of ISU’s journalism program, was another member of the committee.

She said the group also spoke with people at other universities around the country, including other publication boards and campus newspaper staffs.

“We spent a great deal of time on this,” Engel said. “The report was the product of a lot of discussion.”

She said one main recommendation was to make more newspapers and periodicals available on campus.

“We found there were very few places on campus where students and other people on campus can pick up a newspaper,” she said, citing the fact that papers such as The Tribune were not available in Parks Library or Hamilton Hall, which she said were “two places where they definitely should be available.”

After the report was submitted, Jischke asked the Daily Publication Board, Inc., to submit a reactionary report to the committee’s conclusions and recommendations.

Michael Gonsalves, president of the board, said he thought the Newspaper Study Committee could have done better on its report.

“I was disappointed that the Newspaper Study Committee didn’t seem to completely answer the issues the judge had asked them to,” said Gonsalves, senior in English.

He also said the overall tone of the report seemed unprofessional.

“The Daily considers itself a professional organization,” he said, “but the committee’s report didn’t seem to reflect that.”

Gonsalves said the publication board’s reactionary report will include members’ thoughts and concerns about the committee’s report.

Eighmey said the next step for the Newspaper Study Committee is to meet and discuss the report personally with Jischke on Nov. 19.

Jischke declined to comment on the report until after that meeting.