My co-editor-in-chief Michael Hughes and I went into this summer thinking it would be easy.
Summer staff only prints twice a week, there is generally less news that happens on campus and in town with students gone and we knew we had a great staff to back us up.
But as the industry goes we were hit hard with news. This summer brought news of the nation’s worst mass shooting in history, two of the most divided national conventions in years, more shootings of black men by police and shootings of police in Dallas as well.
And that was just the national news. Locally, we mourned the 5-year anniversary of the disappearance of Lauren Spierer, had the dean of students retire, a professor charged with sexual assault and two students pass away.
Needless to say, Michael and I couldn’t be more grateful that our great staff turned out to be one of the best on record who worked tirelessly to bring you top-notch reporting and grade-A storytelling.
We want to thank you, our readers for being with us along the way. Though we will be off stands for a couple weeks we will still be updating our website, idsnews.com, for continued updates on the presidential and gubernatorial races and the trial of Daniel Messel.
Finally, come fall you will be in the best of hands with our new editor Alison Graham and her staff, I promise.
We are so proud to be your newspaper.
