EDITORIAL: The 113th: From where we stood

Members of the DP's 113th Board of Managers and Editors look back on their time at the Pink Palace. After 139 issues, it's time to look at how we've done, and time to give The Daily Pennsylvanian over to our successors, the 114th Board of Manager and Editors. We remember our coverage of former Provost Stanley Chodorow's search for a presidency position, the fight to keep food vendors on the streets of Penn and Chinese president Jiang Zemin's visit to Penn. We've also watched the new Barnes & Noble bookstore rise quickly out of the ground on 36th and Walnut streets and discussed the changing retail landscape in news analysis articles. These were only some of the issues we focused on during our tenure at the DP. We chose to tell you, our readers, not only what happened at the University but why it happened. We hope we were successful in our mission. Yes, we made mistakes along the way. But we constantly strove to provide accurate, fair and complete coverage as well as continue the tradition of a free campus press. We are espcially proud of the recognition the entire staff received upon winning the Pacemaker and Trendsetter awards. To our succesors, who are co-workers and friends, we hope they will continue to build upon the traditions and the editorial and business standards that we have tried to uphold. We are confident that they will take the newspaper to new heights especially as the Daily Pennsylvanian Interactive is revamped to become more user-friendly. It's been a long year with many late nights (or early mornings) spent at 4015 Walnut Street. And as we look forward to a life of free evenings and whatever else life has in store for us, we will always think fondly of our time together at The Daily Pennsylvanian.