Insight

Fresh start for paper, community alike

TIM DUNBAR
dunbar@mscd.edu

When I was a wee lad, it was traditional to start each school year anew-new clothes, new shoes, new pencils and notebooks, new classes in a new grade. Each year was a fresh start, a new beginning, if you will. With the slate wiped clean, new possibilities were limitless.

I still like that idea: fresh starts are good for the soul, or so I've heard. So it is with this semester's first edition of The Metropolitan that we bring you a fresh start, a new look, a new mission.

First, the new mission: Since my early days of copy editing this paper (something I've done for the past two-and-a-half years), I have always thought we could do a better job of reaching you, the Metro student. Every metro student-every student on the Auraria Campus, for that matter-has a story; our job here at The Metropolitan is to bring you that story in the most fair, balanced, accurate and concise way possible. We have made it our mission to cover stories that matter to Metro students, stories that affect you and stories about you. Whether it's about Metro's student government, new buildings on campus, or a new club in town. If it's important to you, it's important to us.

But we need your help. We need your input, your ideas; we need to know what's important to you. Included in each section is the e-mail address of the section editor; bylines and photo credits also include e-mail addresses. Think of this as an invitation to contact our writers, photographers and editors with compliments, criticism, corrections, even story ideas. This is your newspaper; we want you to be a part of it.

If there's something happening on campus that gets under your skin (and believe me, there will be), something you're involved in, something on your mind you want the whole campus to know about, we invite you to send a letter to the editor. If your group, team or club has an event coming up, let us know about it. Press releases can be dropped off at The Office of Student Media, Tivoli Room 313 or mailed to the address on the next page.

If you've read us before, you may have noticed a completely new look for The Metropolitan. I have never been a fan of cosmetic changes for their own sake, but I think these changes will make the paper easier to read, easier to follow and just plain nicer to look at.

I wish I could say the new look was my doing, but I can't because it wasn't. Nic Garcia, our Insight section editor, deserves all the credit. Nic spent the better part of the summer, on his own, coming up with the new design you now hold in your hands.

So, as Ron Burgundy would say, thanks for stopping by. We hope to hear from you soon.