As you read this, you are one step closer to joining the prestigious community known as the University of Wisconsin. Holding this paper, you’ve been introduced to an essential voice on campus for the last 42 years. With this paper in hand, you’re…one step farther from summer.
Fret not! While some of you have textbooks, lectures and dorm rooms on your mind, we know that more of you are concerned with your tan and the next party. Here at the opinion page, we sympathize with both camps.
We’re the ones reading the newspaper on the beach, the ones watching the news at the gym. We’re the ones with our RSS feeds rolling between YouTube videos and our homepages set to Google News. We’re the ones reading the news so you don’t have to.
The Opinion page is the place for people who give a shit. Our writers are among the few who religiously follow the news and the fewer that are brave enough to put their names on their arguments and stand up for their beliefs. Sure, we don’t always do it perfectly and sometimes, you could argue, we’re flat out wrong – but that’s where you come in.
Along with publishing columns by our staff writers, we also publish pieces from students who disagree with them. The page is not simply for presenting you with our opinions, but for asking you for yours. We take guest columns, letters to the editor, online comments and, for those with more than a passing interest, applications to become staff writers. Simply email [email protected] and we’ll figure out a way to get you involved.
For those not interested in writing, the page still has much to offer. We break news stories down and put them in context. We offer new angles, what we consider to be compelling arguments and the good old-fashioned bias you just can’t find in news. You’ll find some writers who share your values, some you disagree with and some you flat out despise, but that is the beauty of the opinion page.
So enjoy this small taste of the page and come back to us in the fall. Though your tan may be faded and you might not know where the next party is at, you’ll know where to find us.
Allegra Dimperio, Editorial Page Editor
