The Elm aims to provide the campus with accurate, well-balanced reporting.
We want to hold people accountable for their actions. We would like to celebrate student, faculty and staff accomplishments and bring to light wrong doings. We would love to hear students’ opinions and inform the campus of upcoming events. We want to put in this paper what you want to see.
I hope this information is not new to you. I have been reaching out to the campus to write for The Elm and calling for feedback since I started my editorship. Anyone can write and we love to hear your remarks, even if they are negative toward us.
But in this editorial, I am not just going to ask for writers to come forth, but also ask for some advocacy.
I am not asking for you to give us a pat on the back, but instead for you to stand up and believe in what we are to this campus. We are the press.
Know that I work for no boss who oversees and approves everything I publish. I work for you. I have not always liked everything I have published in this paper, but I respect the integrity of everything we publish. I appreciate what people write. I have chosen to not let my personal preferences dictate what I think campus should be allowed to know. People have the right to express their opinions in the paper and students deserve to know what is happening where we all live and learn.
I hope I can get all of you to believe in what the press means. The press has the ability to right wrongs, shatter rumors and stop injustices. The Elm is not changing the world, but we hope to provide good things for the little world we live in. We may not always be able to perfectly share with you all the things you deserve to know, but we do our best in providing you with the best information we can. But part of it is up to you because you must let us know what is going on, what you like, and what you dislike.
We have lots of room to grow and improve. We always strive to be better and hope some of you may want to join us in that quest. What I hope, too, is more faculty and staff will start talking to us so we can provide the campus with better information.
I worry that the news we provide suffers from some peoples hesitation to speak with us, whether they be faculty, staff or students. We can not deliver a well-balanced story if all parties are not willing to share their expertise.
Some people on campus will not speak to us. We have run into a big problem with faculty members especially. I am not positive of their fears but let me assure them we are willing to send them their quotes if they are worried about being misquoted.
Please be our advocate. If you love everything we do, we’re probably not doing our job, but believe in what we do and aim to do better for this campus.
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