The Worst Day Since Yesterday

February 5th, 2010 by Willie Clark

Beloved CT readers,
Hello everybody, and happy Thursday. Today I’ve got a lot to go through, so I am going to split it up into bad news and good news.

Bad goes first.

Everybody who opened up the print edition of last week was bound to find several small hidden surprises. The Features Front, a mainstay in the Features section, printed missing the background that was designed for it. A&E had several floating black boxes, which were originally the music review boxes.

No words can really express my feelings when I first flipped open the paper last week. After the time and effort that we put it, mistakes like this hit hard. Especially when the mistakes weren’t out fault. As of press today, I am still waiting on an explanation from the printers as to exactly why this happened. But que sara sara.

And for this week, despite how efficient each section ran during production, a slight technical error from our online provider for our Web site, College Publisher, kept us from putting stuff online until Friday. But, each section was our in record time tonight, which leads me into the good news.

This week you will notice several new changes to the paper. Opinions finally has a masthead it can call its own, and also has a brand new redesigned page. This page updated the older Editorial/Editorial observer page, and allows for one editor a week to now write a more in-depth Editorial Observer instead of splitting the space between two writers. It also returns the masthead back to the Opinions section, where it once sat for many a years. Feel free to comment on the new page, as we would love to hear feedback on it.

This week you will also find a two page spread in the A&E section, focusing on the beloved series that returned this week, “Lost.” Now I will admit to never have gotten addicted to the show, the final season of this television mainstay features a rare opportunity to do a great design in the A&E section.

And last, but certainly not least, for all of you football fans out there, we ran a special one-page design on one UR student’s predictions and breakdowns for the big game to come this weekend.

Oh yeah, and the Features Front has puppies. A lot of them. And boy, are they cute.

Enjoy this week’s edition of the paper. Until next week. Rock it, Rochester.
-Willie Clark
Campus Times Editor-in-Chief

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