However, his daily job is still intense, although he no longer has to work on Saturdays since The Crimson ceased its weekend publication this year.

"I like the fact that I get weekends off now," Byrne says. "But it's a lot harder than it used to be."

Byrne has to run the presses twice on most mornings to accommodate the double sections printed on Mondays and Fridays, and to publish Fifteen Minutes, the Crimson's weekly magazine, on Thursdays.

Byrne says it is a hectic rush to begin printing at 5 a.m. and then to run the presses a second time 40 minutes later. The crunch is compounded by the fact that the quantity of printing has increased since The Crimson went free this year.

"We've almost doubled in circulation," Byrne says.

However, Byrne says the group of students who stuff the papers with advertisements each morning before they can be delivered have helped to make such transitions easier.

'Stop Talking, and Start Writing!'

Crimson editors officially know Sorrento as the newspaper's production supervisor. But he is much more than that.

"When you think of The Crimson, definitely [Pat's] face comes to mind immediately," says former Crimson president David J. Barron '89. "Pat's a huge presence there."

He is the figure who wanders throughout the newsroom around midnight, urging writers to "stop blabbing and [to] write your story" so the paper can close out early and go to print.

Former Crimson editors have nothing but praise for Sorrento.

Marie B. Morris '85, a former associate managing editor, says, "He's the best printer I've ever seen, and I've seen hundreds of printers."

Sorrento says he still receives phone calls late at night from Crimson editors who graduated long ago and who still keep in touch with the Everett, Mass., native.

Sorrento says he enjoys a close relationship with Crimson "kids" past and present.

"Most of the kids treat me the same way. I think we're just as close," he says. "Kids confide in me, ask me questions like they would an older brother or [their] parents."