Jillian Beaudry

This week’s issue was so much better than the last! The staff was enthusiastic, the writing improved and things ran really smoothly despite missing our managing editor for a chunk of time. We missed you Stacey! We didn’t have any major technical errors. The nice man from Oregon Lithoprint stopped by and told us how to fix a couple of things and make their jobs easier, and I can tell the difference in the printing. We still had trouble with pixilation in the Arts section, but we should fix that this week…I’m hoping.

I am still loving our Linfield myth series, and Jordan did a great job. I KNEW there were tunnels under campus! Also, the piece about Linfield’s old theater in Pioneer was really cool and interesting. The story about the box elder bugs was gross and totally worth reading if they are making a home in your dorm room. Housing registration seemed to be a theme this week and the editorial and an opinion piece brought up some great points about mixed-gender housing and the difficulties of finding a roommate.

For the first time we did a joint Personality of the Week and I was really pleased. I don’t think it will become a routine thing, but it characterized the girls’ personalities very well. OH! and the Review is winning some awards! Early results are out from our main competition in the Oregon Newspaper Publisher’s Association 2008 contest and we have already received awards for best writing, best series, best house ad, best overall design and best cartoon to name a few. This is really exciting for us and we can’t wait to go to the conference in May and collect even more. We have our sights set on the General Excellence Award, which means we are better than all other newspapers in our category, and which we won last year!

Our graphics/ads  designer Ryan Gerdes also entered us into a design competition for the first year and we will keep you posted.

We also picked up a couple of new writers this week, and we still need more! Please e-mail me at [email protected] if interested!