Beloved CT readers,

Hello everybody and welcome to another lovely week at the CT.

It is with a heavy heart and a weighted soul that I write this. After tasting the sweet fruit of Eden that was last week’s online only edition of the paper I am bittersweetly torn in announcing to you all that the Campus Times will no longer be publishing a print edition.

Sure, we all knew it was coming. With the invention of the Internet, iPods and those funny new iPad devices, it just seems silly to keep wasting so many trees.

It also made sense fiscally. Now having been independent from the University and SA funding for several years, moving only to online content will allow us to more evenly spread out our resources. At a small research university, there is no need for us to continue printing and wasting resources that could be devoted to true investigative journalism, pretty Web polls and even exclusive videotaped interviews with our editors.

Instead, the CT will now plant a tree every week and sing our own rendition of “Kumbaya.”

Rest assured readers, the CT will still provide you with the best up-to-date coverage that you have come to know and love. In fact, I am expecting the quality of stories to increase now that editors can spend more time working with writers, now that they don’t have to dedicate time to a print edition.

Each section will still have weekly stories, but with the ending of a sole production night as well, stories will now go up when they break. This also allows us to actually break news, something that we don’t get to do very often.

So yeah, you won’t have to wait for news to just come out on Thursdays. You will also be able to set up RSS feeds to make sure you don’t miss a single breaking story.

With this change, all of our overworked staff can now enjoy being students, have fun and just sit back and enjoy journalism.

It was a hard decision, and one that I took a long time on before ultimately deciding. While I have long thought of myself as a firm supporter of print journalism, and I am sad to see the print edition of the CT be gone like dust in the wind, it was the right decision that had to be made at the right time. If you have any questions about this change of policy, please feel free to submit a Letter to the Editor or e-mail me at editor@campustimes.org.

Enjoy this final print edition of the Campus Times, and we will see you all in the digital age. Rock it, Rochester.
-Willie Clark
Campus Times Editor-in-Chief