EDITORIAL: Where We Stand

A statement of purposeA statement of purposefor a newer eraA statement of purposefor a newer era__________________________ Many of us have patiently slaved away at the DP anxiously awaiting our chance to lead this newspaper – and now our time has come. We realize the importance of our role on this campus and are ready to work our hardest to tackle all issues – good and bad – fairly, efficiently and comprehensively, leaving no stone unturned, no story uninvestigated and no issue unexplored. We will draw upon the experience of those before us, recording the actions of those around us while remembering that the past is something to learn from, not something to blindly imitate. As the dust begins to clear after the tumultous controversy of the last 12 months, replete with presidential searches and water buffaloes, we are ready to record University history – not to make it ourselves. We eagerly await our new President, Judith Rodin, and look forward to the dawn of a new era, which will hopefully be marked by a stronger community. We look to welcome the upcoming year with a newspaper marked by even stronger journalism. Ultimately, we hold fast to the lesson we have learned over the past year. This lesson is best expressed by Albert Camus: "A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom, it will never be anything but bad. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse." We relish our freedom, yet simultaneously realize that with this freedom comes responsibility. We look to the next year as an opportunity to exercise that obligation of responsible journalism to the utmost of our abilities, with the firmest of convictions and the best of intentions.