The Voice
Goodbye from the Editor:
After two semesters, 25 long production nights and editing approximately 400,000 words, it is time to say farewell to the 2005-06 school year.
This has been a year of firsts for The Colonnade, as we have published numerous 14-page papers and even broken our own record by producing a few 16-pagers. We have created a larger, more balanced editorial section, added a rail to the front page, added horoscopes to the Variety section and won several awards at the Georgia College Press Association conference– all in one year.
Most importantly, we have increased our readership dramatically, and we have noticed more and more newspaper racks around campus are empty by Mondays. We have never before received as many letters to the editor as we have this year, so here’s a sincere thanks for paying attention and expressing your opinion to us-even if we didn’t have the space to do it all.
The Public Safety report continued to be a hit, as did The Litter Box. We never expected the Colonnade instant messaging system to be so flooded with student voices. But you talked, we listened and we loved it. This is what a student paper should be about!
Though I am eager to be moving onto greener pastures, graduation will be bittersweet and I will greatly miss it here.
Milledgeville and the GCSU community have become a second home for me these past four years (and, after spending 20 plus hours in the newsroom each week for half of my college career, the Colonnade staff has become a second family to me).
Working at The Colonnade has cost me much of my social life, has made me sleep deprived more nights than I can count, and has made me want to throw non-working computers out the window. But honestly, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I’ve learned more by working here in a real newsroom than I ever could have learned in any class, and I am confident the experiences I have dealt with in here (working under deadline, experiencing last-minute technical problems, getting stories in too late or not at all, not being able to reach writers at the last minute, etc.) will prepare me for the real world.
I have faith that the new, extremely dedicated staff will continue to carry on the great legacy of The Colonnade next year, and will only build onto what we’ve already established and improve it even more.
Good luck to Tyler Smith, our news editor, who will be taking over the reigns next semester. Good luck to all the new (and old) section editors and managing staff members. And a fond farewell to the entire GCSU campus– whom I greatly appreciate for your loyal readership this year.
Best of luck in the future,
Christina Homer
Editor in Chief, 2005-2006
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Apr 21 2006. Filed under Our Voice.
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