The Voice

Our Voice is The Colonnade’s editorial area. It is the very special spot in every edition of The Colonnade where we reserve the right to give our editorial board’s consensus opinion about pertinent issues that come up both on and off our campus.
That is what Our Voice is usually for, but for this week Our Voice belongs to me and only me, the Editor in Chief.
Unfortunately, as the Editor in Chief writes the Week of Welcome Our Voice each year, everything tends to sound about the same, so if you are not new to our campus I offer you my most sincere apology.
For those of you coming to GCSU for the first time, congratulations are in order. You have chosen an excellent school and I am sure you will quickly realize that this campus and the Milledgeville community offer you plenty to do.
That being said I would like to give you a little piece of advice.
At the risk of sounding a bit cocky, I encourage you all to pick up a copy of The Colonnade each week.
I will not lie to you, part of the reason is that we work very hard on each copy of our newspaper and without the readers we would be nothing.
However, I also encourage you to read The Colonnade because we endeavor to provide you with information about what is going on at our school.
Our motto is “It’s your right to know. It’s our duty to inform,” and I assure you we take that to heart.
Unfortunately, we do not know everything that goes on, on this campus. We encourage all of the students, faculty and staff to e-mail or call us with tips.
This is one of the most exciting years we have had in a long time on this campus. It is, after all, an election year. Naturally, one of our goals this year is to provide you with information about the election and to encourage you all to vote.
This year we will also strive to bring you more content online. We will have daily updates with the latest campus information as well as videos and slideshows from events around GCSU. Please check these out at gscunade.com.
Not only do I encourage you to read The Colonnade, I encourage you to participate. If you are interested in becoming a writer or photographer please stop by one of our Monday meetings, these are held at 5 p.m. in the MSU Lounge. No experience is necessary and it is open to all majors.
There are other ways to get involved: write a letter to the editor about a story or anything that may be on your mind (send letters to colonnadeletters@gcsu.edu), vent to us on A.I.M. (IM colonnadevent), or even join our advertising staff.
Once again, welcome to GCSU. Let’s make this the greatest year in school history.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Aug 8 2008. Filed under Opinion, Our Voice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry