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Editor bids farewell to newspaper
I didn’t think about writing newspaper articles. I thought about writing screenplays and making movies. I thought about how having a double major of mass communication and English would propel me to where I wanted to be. But that was a year and a half ago. That was before I did my first practicum, a [...]
Letter from the editor
The Colonnade’s 2012-2013 Editor-in-chief gives her farewell after an award-winning year After many 4 a.m. nights, intensive rounds of editing and 16-hour days of serving at the helm of The Colonnade, this column serves as my most sincere letter of resignation. When I arrived to Georgia College in the Fall of 2010, one of my [...]
Cliques in college have a whole new meaning
Clique: It’s not a word commonly used in college. Saved to describe those mean girls encountered in high school, the word clique is dipped, soaked and battered in negative connotations. But when it’s associated with a group of people who help you thrive, it doesn’t seem all that bad. That is why The Colonnade strongly [...]
A farewell to senior staff
It’s a Wednesday night, production night for us in The Colonnade newsroom. It’s a normal evening, my page is finished, and I only have few more photos left to edit. Through some sort of commotion and random conversation, our copy editor Joe Kovac says something that has resonated with me ever since. “Whatever you do, [...]
Marathon media aftermath
The Boston Marathon bombing and the ensuing media frenzy have one thing in common: just as the lives of 176 people, as the count stood late Wednesday evening, at the 117th Boston Marathon changed in a split-second, so has the news all week. Most notably, today, Wednesday, April 17. In the course of an hour, [...]
