Indiana Daily Student jumps off the page

I awoke Sunday morning bleary-eyed, tired from a full Saturday of helping my sorority during women’s recruitment. Despite my fatigue, I was excited to get to the newsroom to put out my first paper as the spring editor-in-chief.\nWhen I arrived at the School of Journalism, I realized that we were missing a key element we needed to put out the paper: electricity. Some people might take this as a bad omen for the semester, but we do not. \nWe’re still just as excited and determined to introduce some exciting changes to you, our readers, and I’d like to be the first to tell you about them. The Indiana Daily Student will have a greater emphasis on multimedia coverage this semester. Starting Tuesday, we will have a daily news podcast called “Hoosier Headlines” available on our Web site. To download it, visit www.idsnews.com and click on the appropriate link. In addition, we’re creating a weekly news wrap-up show, which will be available on our Web site. We’re hoping to get it ready by next week, so stay tuned.\nWe’re also changing the way we do some things internally. Though I won’t bore you with the details of those changes, I want to tell you about one new feature that (I hope) will affect you directly. Starting Friday, I will hold office hours. We welcome visitors any time, but I promise to be in my office (Ernie Pyle Hall 120) from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. every Friday afternoon. I invite you to stop by to chat, offer suggestions or let us know about a story. We’re here to cover you and your news, and we want to make sure we’re doing our job the best we can at all times. This means we need your input.\nOn that note, we’re always looking for people to help us on the business and editorial sides of the paper. You don’t need prior experience to work here, so come check us out. We love to see new faces.\nThose are the big changes for now, but I’m hoping to announce a few more before the end of the semester. \nI’m happy to report that our day without electricity ended happily (we got our power back by about 6 p.m. Sunday), and I’d like to thank everyone at the Physical Plant for helping us out. Additionally, I’d like to extend my sincere apologies to those who were overwhelmed or perhaps left without a computer because of the IDS staff’s temporary presence in one of the Indiana Memorial Union’s computer labs.\nIf there’s anything I can do to help you this semester, please feel free to e-mail me at ccritchi@indiana.edu or stop by the newsroom. The doors are always open and we usually have lights to greet you.