As another school year begins and students get adjusted to their new classes, myself and the rest of the staff are already hard at work putting together this semester’s first issue of The Globe.

I am pretty used to it at this point. Over a dozen people sweating away in our tiny un-air conditioned office,  all of them frantically double and triple checking everything, and of course, the smell of pizza. It is all so familiar. There is just one difference this time.

Now I’m in charge.

It is a jarring change at first. A couple years ago I was a freshman who was far too timid to even show my face at the pitch meetings. It did not occur to me that in a short time I could potentially be running the show. Now that I am, I am beginning to realize how large the shoes the rest of the staff and I have to fill are.

I worked closely with last semester’s Editor-in-Chief Andrew Goldstein while I was Editor-Elect, and what he managed to accomplish in that short time was phenomenal. He always made sure to tell me that no one person is responsible for The Globe, it’s a team effort and every member of the staff had a hand in it.

He was absolutely correct, but had it not been for his determination and persistence to push The Globe further and propel it to a higher level, The Globe would not have had the success that it did last semester.

At a certain point during Andrew’s tenure as Editor-in-Chief, I realized I had been thinking about The Globe wrong my whole time as a student here.

I just figured this would be something good to slap on a resume. I thought it would probably look good when I applied for a job someday. Andrew helped me see that not only does The Globe have the potential to be so much more than that, but that I have the potential to help take it there.

We don’t have to simply be a student newspaper, but a newspaper run by students, students who are all interested in tackling any story no matter how challenging it may be, no matter how many people slam doors in their faces or hang up the phone on them and who all believe they are here for something more than adding another line to their resume.

All that said, this first issue might look a little different from previous issues. We are trying something a little different for the beginning of a new year. You will notice something we are calling the “Freshman Edition.” It is our hope that the University’s new class of freshman students will find the information contained within useful. 

Anyone who ever had to go through the experience of freshman year knows it can sometimes be an uncomfortable transition, especially at a school like this, where so many students come far away from their hometown to the heart of an unfamiliar city. Hopefully our new “Freshman Edition” of The Globe can help make that transition a little easier.

If you aren’t a freshman, rest assured, The Globe will look much more familiar next week.

Every time I come to this office I am reminded of those shoes we have to fill this semester, and judging by the looks of my staff, I’m confident we will do it.

Signed,

Jon Andreassi

Editor-in-Chief