Letter from the Editor

In a time when it is common to hear that the newspaper business is dying, the staff of The Colonnade still believes in the art form. Yes, art form.

Artists spend hours painstakingly developing their craft and choosing the right medium to display their skills.

Here at The Colonnade we spend endless hours researching, interviewing, writing, editing and designing the paper that students, faculty, staff and alumni eagerly read each week.

If you are new to Georgia College this year, we hope that you too become an avid Colonnade enthusiast. Not just because we spend roughly 24 hours from Monday to Wednesday putting the thing together, but also because it will benefit you.

The Colonnade strives to provide the most complete coverage of campus and community events, so by reading it each week you will be a more informed member of the Georgia College and Milledgeville communities. Our motto is, after all, “Your right to know, our duty to inform.”

No matter how hard we try, we are not psychics. We don’t know everything that is going on around campus, so if you know of an event that you would like to see covered send us an email telling us about it to colonnade@gcsu.edu. Or just drop by our office, MSU 128, since someone is usually there chained to his or her desk at all times Monday through Friday.

Each week this section of the paper is devoted to the editorial board’s consensus opinion on current events and topics, on campus and off.

The rest of the section, however, is devoted to you, the reader. We encourage you to write letters to the editor telling us your thoughts on articles in the paper or your opinion on just about anything that interests you. You can send your comments to colonnade@gcsu.edu. The Litter Box is also a good way to put your thoughts in print on a weekly basis. You can send your vents that will show up in the Litter Box to our email, tweet them to us, send us a message on Facebook or send us an instant message at ColonnadeVent on AIM.

If you want to become more involved with The Colonnade, we are always looking for new writers, photographers, illustrators, columnists, ad reps and web designers. At The Colonnade, if you want to get involved you can do just about anything. There are weekly meetings at 5 p.m. in the MSU Lounge (next to our office).

The staff this year is dedicated to serving the campus community and providing the most in-depth coverage on news and events in the most complete way possible. That means on the website, too. Everything that is in the print issue on Fridays will be online each week. In addition, we are going to start adding more multimedia to the site. Slideshows, audio and video will appear on the website along with all of the photos you saw in the print version to create a more interactive reading experience.

Posted by Bobbi Otis on Aug 4 2011. Filed under Opinion, Our Voice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.