2008 Woodie Awards
This election year, we're counting on you
Issue date: 1/24/08 Section: Opinion
In accordance with this election year, the Collegio is once again offering a Politics page within its folds. In the forthcoming months, this newspaper will provide both local and national stories regarding candidates and issues related to the race, as well as commentary from staff and guest columnists.
We hope to proffer discussion among our readers and encourage those who skim our paper to go further in researching the ideas and campaigns that touch a nerve. Internet resources from The New York Times Online to Facebook offer near-constant updates on this year's campaigns. It would take the most apathetic soul to opt out of doing some amount of research about the issues at hand; the Internet makes it just too easy.
And yet, we can't help but notice how many students on this campus couldn't seem to care less about the election process.
It's important to remember that the decisions this incoming president and other elected officials make will affect us as we work our way into the real world, not just as students, but as adults - as taxpayers and mothers and fathers and independent Americans.
There is only so much that we, as a staff, can do to promote interest in this year's changing of the guard. And so we ask you, our readers, to write in and tell us which issues are important to you, so that we might share your ideas with your peers. We encourage debate, letters, guest columns, message board posts, story ideas - anything that might make this election year, our coverage of it, and the choices you make during it as constructive as possible.
We hope to proffer discussion among our readers and encourage those who skim our paper to go further in researching the ideas and campaigns that touch a nerve. Internet resources from The New York Times Online to Facebook offer near-constant updates on this year's campaigns. It would take the most apathetic soul to opt out of doing some amount of research about the issues at hand; the Internet makes it just too easy.
And yet, we can't help but notice how many students on this campus couldn't seem to care less about the election process.
It's important to remember that the decisions this incoming president and other elected officials make will affect us as we work our way into the real world, not just as students, but as adults - as taxpayers and mothers and fathers and independent Americans.
There is only so much that we, as a staff, can do to promote interest in this year's changing of the guard. And so we ask you, our readers, to write in and tell us which issues are important to you, so that we might share your ideas with your peers. We encourage debate, letters, guest columns, message board posts, story ideas - anything that might make this election year, our coverage of it, and the choices you make during it as constructive as possible.
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