The Spartan Daily crew. Done with the semster, content, and a little buzzed over at the Cinnabar.
At long last, the spring ‘08 edition of the Spartan Daily (free since 1934), has printed its last issue. And we here at the newsroom aren’t sure whether to jump up and down for a while or sit around being sad about stuff.
It’s very sentimental, you know. No more late nights in the Daily Planet newsroom typing and retyping articles and curling up with the AP stylebook.
No more late late nights setting up page layouts, printing out numerous rough draft “75’s” and having each one nominally corrected.
I will miss the madness.
And no more wandering around on assignment, asking random people questions they don’t want to answer and having them say “you’re not going to misquote me, are you?”
Honestly, that one kind of bothered me. Just because some illiterate crackhead misquoted someone a few semesters ago, does that mean that I’m going to carry that torch?
Sorry. I’m better now. And I will miss the countless hungry days, broke because many my work days were ursurped by the infinity of the daily paper, in which I made top ramen using the coffee maker to boil water.
Ah, the coffee maker. I might miss you the most, with your confusing buttons and no apparent order whatsoever.
And Big L, the most awesome news editor in recent years, Kevin, our own Danny Tanner, Josh, the desperate sports editor, Kyle, the online wizzard, Michael, the brave man with the gay column. And Dina, who pressed my enter button to print my pages so many times, and talked me off several cliffs outside of Dwight Bentel Hall.
Liza, when you were there, you were there, weren’t you? Tommy, of the abominable disposition, Kyo, of the soft spoken personality who really doesn’t like it when Angelo sneaks up on her and pulls her hood over her head. Colleen and Kate, the story mongers, knocking poor writers over to steal more bylines, and ending the semester with something like 70 stories each. Jesse the quiet one.
All hail Dave, the new exec and “tells it like it is” opinion editor of the semester past. I hope I didn’t forget anyone.
But I will miss the coffee maker the most.
