While lamenting the potential closure of a large media outlet in the Pittsburgh region, the staff of The Globe want to remind our readers we do not plan on closing, slowing down our print schedule or stopping print production entirely at all. The Globe is here to stay for as long as possible.

But a problem unrelated from this made itself known during winter break — issues of The Globe disappearing.

Now, our staff knows the news stands thin out as the week goes on. That’s natural, as more people decide to pick up the newspaper and look at the content the writers, photographers and editors work tirelessly to produce every week of the semester. We appreciate it.

What is not natural though, is entire stacks of newspapers disappearing during winter break when, we can guess, most students have left to go back home or are not venturing onto campus where issues of The Globe can readily be found. This becomes worse when news racks themselves disappear and are moved elsewhere without our permission.

We aren’t here to accuse anybody of vandalism or censorship. We don’t know who’s doing this and have already asked Point Park’s administration if this is their work — something they vehemently deny. And we figured such would be the case, as The Globe’s staff and the university’s administration both know this would be extremely bad optics.

But we are also aware of the impact last issue’s front-page article, “Student-athletes expected varsity sports. Instead, some say they landed on a hidden team,” had. Some people may not like the content of the article and that is fine. The point of this news organization is to keep the campus community informed and to generate discussion.

We hope people who don’t like an article can find a place to discuss their feelings on the matter. This even extends to the website’s comment section as well as The Globe’s Instagram page, @ppuglobe. But making the issues we all spend several hours in a night working on disappear by any means — whether moving them or throwing them away — is unacceptable.

Let’s be as clear as possible about this: The Globe is here to stay whether you like us or not. If you don’t like something in The Globe, talk about it or even tell us, especially if something is inaccurate or doesn’t tell the whole story, as errors are a serious problem we want to avoid and have mostly succeeded in dodging during the fall semester.

If the distaste is from a place of simply not liking when we hold power to account, that’s also fine. It does not ever give you an excuse to move our issues around, throw them away or otherwise make them disappear.

Disrespecting our physical work is offensive, but it’s also not as effective as one may hope. Again, we have an online presence both on our website and on Instagram. You can throw away newspapers, but you can’t throw away what we put up online.

Whoever is doing this — whether it’s a disgruntled student, someone at the university who wants to hide our existence to incoming students or someone pulling a dumb prank — must think of the risks associated with it. If the goal is ultimately to censor us, guess what?

You failed. This semester’s version of The Globe will be just as good, if not better than the last. Welcome back, and don’t throw away our newspapers.