Welcome back everyone! As you are no doubt aware, school is back in full swing; by now I’m sure you’ve settled in to your daily routines, you’ve reunited with your friends, had some fun and, of course, stayed on top of your work, right?
Well, even if that last part isn’t quite true, you’ll be happy to know that we at The Trail have been working hard this summer to bring you a great publication, and we have some big plans this year.
For starters, you might notice that The Trail has gone local. Although not entirely new, we have been working on broadening the scope of The Trail in this issue, stepping out of the campus bubble and bringing you stories from around town. We will be continuing this trend in issues to come as well
As our mission statement suggests, The Trail is intended to provide “Puget Sound students, faculty, staff and the local community” with a comprehensive weekly newspaper that is relevant to our entire readership—that means it should be relevant to Puget Sound students as well as to those of you reading this off campus.
In addition to publishing more articles focusing on off-campus events, we will also be distributing The Trail to off-campus locations (who knows, maybe that is where you’re reading this!). In short, just keep your eyes peeled for us around town.
While we are certainly trying to broaden our horizons, however, that does not mean that we have forgotten our roots, and as a result you may have also noticed a focus on the other campus media in this issue.
We will be collaborating more fully with media like Photo Services and KUPS to bring you a higher quality, more informative and interesting paper this year. That goes for media such as Campus Films as well, although if you’ve been following our Twitter, you’ll know that relations are a bit tense at the moment (that goes for you too, @PugetSoundPres).
With that in mind, we have been working hard to bulk up our presence on the various social media. Our Facebook and Twitter pages, which many assumed suffered a slow death long, long ago, have been revitalized.
We will be using both of these media consistently throughout the year to deliver the news to you directly, and asking you to respond and tell us what you think, as well as what you want to see more—or less—of in upcoming issues. After all, it is your paper, not ours.
To stay updated, you can pick up our paper all over campus (and beyond!) or visit our website, trail.pugetsound.edu; you can also follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/PugetSoundTrail, and on Twitter, @PugetSoundTrail if you aren’t already.
Also feel free to visit me with any questions, comments, or concerns during my office hours in Diversions, Fridays from 10-1 (although, sadly, I can’t make it today). I’m generally pretty friendly.
In short, we’ve got a lot planned this year—this was just a taste!—and I am confident that The Trail’s staff has the talent and drive to make it all happen.