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Diana Le
Mann Alice
Benjamin Branstetter
Kelsie White
Marty Santalucia
Rabyia Ahmed
Josseline Carbonare
James Couche
Jenna Denoyelles
Morgan Dysinger
Jade Herbst
Wills King
Allison Mills
Phil Narsh
James Speed
Chris Varmecky
Phil Narsh
Mike Pierce
Ashaka Patel
editor's comments
Welcome back, Penn
State Harrisburg.
Let me begin my
introducing myself Hi.
My name is Diana. I'm
a sophomore and I'm the
new Editor in Chief. I
love a good challenge. But
don't bother challenging
my capability of being
Editor. You'll lose.
Now that that's done,
tell me about yourself.
Really? Cool. Wow. Oh,
OK. Huh.
What does an Editor in
Chief do, you ask? I go
to meetings and I hold
meetings. Sometimes
they're with my Executive
Board. Sometimes they're
with my staff of writers
and photographers. Other
times they're with campus
administrators and the
like.
I work with a publisher
and I work with
advertisers. I manage
a budget large enough
to pay my tuition bill. I
assign and manage story
and photo assignments.
I edit articles, layout the
paper and oversee the
paper's development.
I recruit, train, hire,
promote, demote and fire
staff. I set rules, deadlines
and expectations. I work
to make my staff the best
writers and photographers
they can be because that
ultimately makes this the
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best paper it can be.
I do all that and still get
to class on time. Barely.
Here in The Capital
Times office, hopes of
hitting the ground running
were a tad idealistic.
Leftover summer tasks
were slowly completed in
the first weeks ofthe school
year. Organizing meetings
with approximately 30
busy schedules proved
more challenging than
thought. Just days into
the new school year, one
of our primary computers
crashed and died. Software
and server problems are
pending help. The student
our lead story was to be
about is missing in a land
far, far away. Meanwhile,
students wishing to join
the newspaper seem to
whisk in and out of the
office, advertisers need to
be contacted, and unread
press releases continue to
be e-mailed in rapid fire.
If these first few weeks
are any indication of what
lies ahead in the next 10 or
so issues, it's a good thing
I can deal with pressure
and stay levelheaded
when things go wrong.
Like my assistant editor
(also last year's Editor in
Chief) said, I'm "trying
to bring this paper to
a whole new level of
professionalism."
I'll spare you my list of
achievements, but I do
have high expectations
from others as well as
myself. If you think I'm
working in The Capital
Times office from 8 a.m.
to 10 p.m. for my resume,
you're two-thirds wrong.
Before graduating from
high school, my assistant
principal said he looked
forward to seeing me be
Editor someday. I told
him I had no aspirations
whatsoever to do so
because I loved old
fashioned gumshoe
reporting. He then said
I would become Editor
because that's the type of
person I am: If I believe I
can do something better, I
will.
Then like any high school
kid, I rolled my eyes when
I left his office.
A year later, look who's
wrong: not him.
I do believe I can help
make this paper better
and with the help of my
amazing team of editors,
writers and photographers,
I will.
Well then, Penn State
Harrisburg, that is me
and this is our first issue
for the 2008-2009 school
year. It's a small step, but
a step nonetheless in a
new direction.
-Diana