So tonight was the first meeting of the semester for my college paper, the Endicott Observer. With a new editor, it seems like the paper is making a change for the better. Ideas were flowing and hopefully we will get more readers around campus.
Because I attend a private college, there is no true "free press." Stories are usually limited to the awards the school has recently won, or a new club. No student really wants to read about the boring stuff happening around campus like community service, they want something that they can read over lunch or while waiting for their next class. I think there are ways around the administrations guidelines, after all, shouldn't it be a newspaper for the students?
As probably one of the only college newspapers without an online element, I am going to make it my goal to start getting stories on the website, even if they are only the one the administration likes to read. It's really hard when someone asks to read some of your clips online and you have nothing to offer them but sending actual clips through snail mail. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this semester will be a great one for the Observer.
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