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==''The Tech Talk''==
==''The Tech Talk''==
Former Louisiana Tech President [[F. Jay Taylor]] hired Hilburn to "liberate the [college] newspaper," ''The Tech Talk,'' which had previously been a noncontroversial journal of mostly honor rolls and academic listings and failed to address student issues, such as the [[Vietnam War]], the [[civil rights]] movement, and the sexual revolution.<ref name=hilburndeath>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140116/NEWS01/301160027/Well-known-journalist-professor-Hilburn-dead-75?nclick_check=1|title=Well-known journalist, professor, Hilburn dead at 75|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 16, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref><ref name=latech/>
Former Louisiana Tech President [[F. Jay Taylor]] hired Hilburn to "liberate the [college] newspaper," ''The Tech Talk,'' which had previously been a noncontroversial journal of mostly honor rolls and academic listings and failed to address student issues, such as the [[Vietnam War]], the [[civil rights]] movement, and the sexual revolution.<ref name=hilburndeath>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140116/NEWS01/301160027/Well-known-journalist-professor-Hilburn-dead-75?nclick_check=1|title=Well-known journalist, professor, Hilburn dead at 75|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|accessdate=January 16, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref><ref name=latech/>
Hilburn named [[Stanley Tiner]], whose career ended as the editor of ''The Sun Herald'' in Gulfport and Biloxi, [[Mississippi]]. Tiner recalled in an interview with the ''[[Monroe News Star]]'' that as the editor of ''The Tech Talk'': "We started printing hard news ... And we wanted the editorial page to be powerful. We rebuked the notion that the voice of the paper should be trivial."<ref name=latech/>
Hilburn named [[Stanley Tiner]], whose career ended as the editor of ''The Sun Herald'' in Gulfport and Biloxi, [[Mississippi]]. Tiner recalled in an interview with the ''[[Monroe News Star]]'' that as the editor of ''The Tech Talk'': "We started printing hard news ... And we wanted the editorial page to be powerful. We rebuked the notion that the voice of the paper should be trivial."<ref name=latech/>