Our Voice: These are the moments
Fewer things feel more homey than fingers bleeding with newsprint.
Walking to class with a warm (or iced with Splenda) cup of coffee and picking up a Colonnade out of your favorite bin so you can read it while you’re waiting for your professor to arrive or say something that sparks your interest. Almost passing by a news rack but a headline on the budget or a Steeler’s quarterback or something that matters to you catches your eye and you eagerly grab a copy to find out more. … Those are your moments, brought by us.
Peering over the screen of my MacBook on Friday mornings to a circus of caffeine addicts at Blackbird Coffee and seeing slews with Colonnades in hand. Looking on tables in the nooks of Arts & Science to see tables scattered with rumpled leads and photos. . Those are our moments, brought by you.
My mind works differently now than it did 26 issues ago, when I started as editor-in-chief. I think in story ideas and number crunches, and I read everything with the eye of an editor, catching capitalization and grammatical errors subconsciously. . Those are my moments, brought by The Colonnade.
The staff has become like family and the office, my sanctuary. (I kid that I might as well have not gotten off-campus housing and just set up a bed under my desk.) We’ve probably knocked off a few years of our lives due to Adobe InDesign-induced stress and we’ve bonded over over-used typefaces. Even through the laughs, we pulled off a record-setting amount of awards and national recognition, to boot. For this, we have GCSU – no ampersand – to thank.
The professors who taught us, the readers who felt more informed because of us and the administration that has supported us were all nothing short of integral. Without their help, I’d hate to see where The Colonnade would be.
After this paper, I will pass the reigns on to next year’s editor-in-chief, Matt Chambers, who I have no doubt will do nothing but improve the reputation that editors from the past 86 years have built. How do I know? He’s got passion.
Crossing my fingers, I, along with four other Colonnade staffers will be walking across Front Campus to attain a faux diploma May 8. I’ll be opening a new section of my life in Savannah while others venture to Atlanta, New York City and beyond . futures brought to us by GCSU.
Thanks again for reading,
Claire Dykes
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on Apr 30 2010. Filed under Our Voice.
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