By Lauren Kelly, Editor-in-Chief
Weâre reaching the end of the semester. Itâs time for final tests and final essays for most of you. Maybe youâre graduating. If so, congratulations! I know how much hard work to make it to the end, and how good it feels to finally graduate. And if youâre still in the swing of things and moving forward into the summer and fall semesters, it still feels great wrap up your courses and have that break. Itâs been a little while since I graduated from Douglas, but I loved this school, and I still do. Weâre all lucky to go to a school that values its students so much, and one that puts on so many events, talks, plays, concerts, and gallery exhibitions for all of us to enjoyânot to mention Douglasâ sports teams, which are ridiculously great.
As you all wrap up your semesters, I felt like doing a little wrap up, too. To all of you who read this paper and my lettitors, thank you for sticking around! Itâs really cool to have a platform to speak to you all from, and everyone on the paper loves putting out content for you every week. After next weekâs paper, which will be on stands during your finals, weâre back to monthly for the summer semester. If you wonât be around in the summer and want to keep following us, you can still read our articles on our website, or read a digital copy of each issue on Issuu.
As I said, this is far from my last issueâwe still have five issues and five months left before Iâll be handing over the reins to the next Editor-in-Chiefâbut I still want to say goodbye to the students who wonât be here in the summer. Iâve loved creating this paper for all of you, and helping it grow and evolve. Iâm very proud of its direction this year, and Iâm also very proud to tell you all that we won two awards at the American Collegiate Press Conference in March! We took home ninth best overall paper out of all the American and Canadian papers present, which was very exciting. Our second one was for the first issue of this semester, our Sex, Drugs, and Rock ânâ Roll edition, for which we received third best overall special edition. Iâll be honest that I wasnât sure how well it would be received, because even though the content was really strong the subject matter was⌠interesting for an awards ceremony, so I was thrilled to see the issue recognized for all the work they put into it.
Since the conferences we attended this year, weâve been working even harder to improve the paper, making changes to our design and articles that I hope youâve all enjoyed. So if youâre leaving this semester, I want to thank you for taking this journey with us over the past year, and if youâre sticking with us and Douglas, weâre going to keep improving for you!
