Spring Break
I'm listening, all summer long
By: Jason Staggs
Issue date: 6/1/09 Section: Opinion
In the spring we received several submissions every week for guest columns, and after we took down online comments the number of mail calls spiked. This allowed us to put more of you on your voices page. To continue this and expand on it, we will need more submissions. There is a caveat: I will not publish anything that I would be ashamed to submit to a professor for a grade, whether it is written by a paid columnist or by any other student. So, I challenge my fellow Aggies to submit your thoughtful and cleanly articulated comments on the issues confronting us.
Furthermore, as I mentioned above, there are still regular opinion matters to be taken care of. I am pleased to say that Tracey Wallace, Steve Humeniuk and Kat Drinkwater are here to stay for the summer, and you will be hearing from them regularly. Christen Beck and Ian McPhail will be contributing as the opportunity arises. So, never fear, the old faithfuls are still alive and will be kicking all summer long.
As the countdown clock in the Memorial Student Center draws closer to zero and students are parceled off to different corners around campus, we will all be responsible for staying as engaged with people outside our comfort zone as ever.
For the sake of future Aggies, some of whom might never be able to share our physical living room, we owe it to each other to continue the discussions important to all of us.
It was an eye-opening experience to learn that I would be confronting a blank page, one-sixth of the daily paper, almost every day for the next two months. With your help, I hope to use this opportunity to bring out the best in my fellow students' opinions, to show everyone that here in College Station we think rationally, feel passionately and argue responsibly.
Furthermore, as I mentioned above, there are still regular opinion matters to be taken care of. I am pleased to say that Tracey Wallace, Steve Humeniuk and Kat Drinkwater are here to stay for the summer, and you will be hearing from them regularly. Christen Beck and Ian McPhail will be contributing as the opportunity arises. So, never fear, the old faithfuls are still alive and will be kicking all summer long.
As the countdown clock in the Memorial Student Center draws closer to zero and students are parceled off to different corners around campus, we will all be responsible for staying as engaged with people outside our comfort zone as ever.
For the sake of future Aggies, some of whom might never be able to share our physical living room, we owe it to each other to continue the discussions important to all of us.
It was an eye-opening experience to learn that I would be confronting a blank page, one-sixth of the daily paper, almost every day for the next two months. With your help, I hope to use this opportunity to bring out the best in my fellow students' opinions, to show everyone that here in College Station we think rationally, feel passionately and argue responsibly.
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