The Collegian

Issue date: 5/15/07 Section: News

Well we have come to the end of another year and I feel that this has been my best and worst year here at Saint Mary's College.

Academically, I feel that I have taken strides toward gaining the useful tools that I need after I leave the Moraga Hills. My social life has built bonds with people that will be very hard to break.

It is the professional life here at Saint Mary's that worries me. I feel, not just for myself but the entire staff of The Collegian, that our work is not appreciated or understood. Our duty as journalists is to report the happenings of the Saint Mary's campus. News is not always reporting on events that happen on campus. News at times is reporting on what is not visible on the surface or simply asking questions of what the functions of organizations are.

Our function is to ask questions and to take the information we learn and notify the community. We have a responsibility to the community to report what goes on. The funny part of this is that we are, at times, ridiculed for asking questions.

Is this because of the negative stigma that the media has? Maybe but we do this because it serves the community and furthers the progress of the institution, not personal gain.

If you believe that we have somehow picked on you, it was not intentional. If we asked a difficult question of you and could not answer, it should not be seen as demeaning but as an opportunity to find the information out for yourself.

We have been accused of not being good journalists a number of times this year. Many times these claims came people who have never had to write an article nor know how a newspaper really works.

We handed out invitations to some of these people to see how much work is put in to what we do. These invites were met half-heartedly or not at all.

This is to educate and inform, not only the rest of the community but the people we interview as well. For those of you that misinterpret this, I am sorry because that was not our intention.

We write to inform the community of, not only what we think, but also what the community thinks. In this is the message and take note that the campus is not content. We are not content. No one should be.

I want this campus to be better after I leave than it was while I was here. One more year to go and I hope that no faculty member or student leader will be content with what has gone on. What I write and say is for that purpose and will continue to be so.

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