The end of the first week back to class is met with resolutions broken, stamina down and a sudden re-realization that being a student is a difficult, demanding and oftentimes discouraging job.
Though our lives as students can often seem disheartening, it is important to understand why we’re here. While all of us have different reasons for attending university, we are driven by the same inspiration to work toward accomplishments of massive scale, to improve our own individual standards of learning and to encourage our fellow students to reach their own individual goals.
In doing this, we are all sustaining a university atmosphere that breeds impressive academia and provides personal support to all of its members. We all have a commitment to our fellow students and a duty to work toward the common good of our community.
Technician has that same commitment. Above all else, we are students dedicated to the success and prosperity of a university atmosphere conducive to free thought, expression and existence without the fear of misrepresentation, backlash or hatred.
However, this atmosphere has not yet been achieved.
A newspaper that does not strive to represent all students it serves is doing its community a disservice. This volume, I have committed myself to corresponding with organizations and groups who have not gotten the treatment, and coverage, they deserve.
Both myself and the entirety of our editorial board are continually committed to providing our fellow students with a newspaper to make their own and, subsequently, a newspaper deserving your readership. Our pages exist to tell the stories and news dictated to us by our university community.
In addition to connecting with members of the community and student groups and organizations, I will be happy to talk with any member of our campus community about any issue you see fit to discuss. I also encourage everyone who wishes to make their voice heard publicly to send me a Letter to the Editor or OP-ED. Letters to the Editor are reserved for people to talk about something specifically to do with Technicianwhile OP-EDs exist as a platform for anyone to use to convey messages they want our community to hear. I can always be reached at [email protected].
I am wholly devoted to working toward a campus atmosphere where all voices are represented, an atmosphere free from hate and discrimination and an atmosphere that not only tolerates, but celebrates the differences all of us bring to the table. Because that atmosphere does not yet exist on our campus, it is the responsibility of our student newspaper to secure the trust, respect and guidance of our community necessary to make those goals, and all other goals shared by fellow students, a reality.
Last April, I told you that Technicianis your journal to write and I would serve as your editor. That mission will remain the same until my last day in office.
We all have a commitment to support this community and I assure you, through whatever hardships the spring semester may bring, I will be unwavering in dedicating your student newspaper to serve its part.
