Collegiate Press Service

[4] When USSPA suffered financial setbacks in 1971 (eventually going defunct), CPS was spun off and became a progressive news collective in Denver, Colorado.

)[6] In April 1978, CPS dissolved, selling its name (and client list) to two enduring advocates, cartoonist Ed Stein and writer Bill Sonn, and distributing funds from the sale to progressive groups in Denver.

[5] Stein and Sonn converted the operation to a commercial enterprise, adding High School News & Graphics to its college and university press service.

Stein remained as co-publisher of CPS[7] for only a short time, as he was appointed as the staff editorial cartoonist of the Rocky Mountain News later in 1978.

At that point, it was supplying news and graphics to 600 college newspapers and 400 high schools with a staff of three and dozens of freelance writers and cartoonists.