Welcome to our new year at The Review

“We shall strive to make The Review a welcome guest to every household and a genial friend to every reader. To former students, we hope to revive the memories of by-gone days, and to those who may be unacquainted with college life, we shall aim, from time to time, to afford a glimpse of the fascinating scenes and incidents of that delightful period.”
-- The Review, September 1882

That’s how founding editor Horace Greeley Knowles described the mission of The Review in the first issue of the paper back in 1882.

Now, 127 years later, our mission remains much the same. Each week, we will strive to bring you the news that matters to you, find out the information you want to know and to chronicle your stories from “that delightful period” that is college life.

We use the word “you” for a reason, as The Review is as much your paper as it is ours. We encourage you to tell us your stories, let us know what you want to read about and, if the urge strikes you, join our staff and make your voice heard.

Our editors have worked hard this summer to develop several new features to allow The Review to serve you, not the least of which being our new Web site, which launched last week. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll use this column to explain more, but for now we simply ask, as
Knowles did a century ago, that you “receive this little missive in the same kindly spirit with which it was sent.”

We won’t always be perfect. We’ll make some mistakes. We might even miss an event that’s important to you. But this much we pledge: we’ll work as hard as we can to produce the most interesting and informative newspaper we can, and to keep you informed of the information you need to know and the stories you want to read. We’re counting on you to let us know where we fall short.

In the years since Horace Greeley Knowles first introduced this newspaper, these pages have chronicled two world wars, the fight to desegregate the university, the unrest of the ’60s, and all the way up to the election of one of our own to the vice presidency, not to mention countless other stories, critically important then, but forgotten by time.

What will this year bring? Your guess is as good as ours. But, whatever happens, know that we’ll be with you the whole way. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

Faithfully yours,
Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief
Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor