School has started once again, which means another semester of classes, homework and occasional (or not so occasional) partying.
But most of all, it means another semester of The Wichitan. We at the student newspaper do have a warped set of priorities, after all.
If you’re reading this right now, chances are you have some interest in reading about campus news, or maybe you just saw the picture of Wayne on the front page. Either way, we’ve got your attention now. You’re caught!
And while your eyes are fixed on our stunning op-ed page, we want to point a few things out to you.
First, you may have noticed that the newspaper looks a little different than it did last semester. Like the body of changing young woman, The Wichitan has blossomed into something even more beautiful than it was before.
Let’s get one thing straight – we loved our newspaper last semester. But we’ve tweaked a few things, mainly because we really, really love you. We’ve created a new nameplate at the top of our front page and we’ve redone all the inside folios, page numbers, cutlines and logos.
Chalk that up to mean that we spent way too much time over the summer messing around on our laptops.
Not like we really minded. It’s what we do!
Second, as the house advertisement (aka our shameless self-promotion) on page four indicates, we’re launching a brand new, honkin’ Website this week. We did this partly to join the 21st century and partly because we know that our generation has all but given up on reading print publications.
We’ve had an archived gallery of our completed issues on the university’s Website for years, but it just wasn’t cutting it.
So we’ve worked tirelessly to give you a Website for all your campus news.
We’re talking live updates here. Photo galleries. Breaking news. The Internet.
After all, who’s more aware of the precarious state of print journalism than us? Well, all the unemployed writers, graphic designers and photographers. That’s who.
And we don’t want to end up like them. So, as Darwin promised that we would, we’ve adapted to our changing environment. We’re changing the way we do things because we feel like we have to. We think you’ll really appreciate our hard work, at least until you see a super goofy photo of yourself uploaded on our new site – because we don’t have to get your permission to do that! Nah nah nah nah nah!
Long story short, we’re not just stagnating here. We’re doing things. Exciting things. Pay attention and go check us out!
www.thewichitan.com