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2 January 24, 2005
NEWS
The Spelman Spotlight
The Spelman
2004-2005 Editorial Board
Clanci Cochran
Editor-in-Chief
Jessica Young
Managing Editor
Leigh Davenport
Editorial Advisor
Teresa Leggard
Executive Production
Editor
Christine Tejada
News Editor
Michele Bradley
Features Editor
Chantal James
Features Editor
Ariel Davis
Arts and Entertainment
Editor
Monique Hathorn
Health Editor
Lakisha Lucas
Perspectives Editor
Shayla Ball
Sports Editor
Yvonne Prahbu
Chief Copy Editor
Stephanie Samuels
Office Manager
Kristilyn Whigham
Business Manager
Quisha Foster
Renita Mathis
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From the Desk of the Editor
She’s Alive!!!
The Premier Edition of the 2004-
2005 Spelman Spotlight
“We are aware that we did not
produce a paper last semester.
The responsibility for this faux pas
is surely mine to take, and although
I feel bad about it, we (the ones
who haven’t yet run screaming for
the hills) are all the better for it
style-wise, in my opinion.”
W ell, we finally
made it! Thanks
for picking up
our first issue of The
Spelman Spotlight. If you
don’t know already, I,
Clanci Cochran, am serv
ing as the editor-in-chief
this year. (So if you have
any gripes about our
beloved publication, come
see me. I’ll be hiding out
in the Lower Manley
office.)
Our journey thus far
has been like any
othfer: one with many
bumps in the road
but always an end in
sight. We have pro
duced countless arti
cles that will not see
publication; ' our
requests for an advi
sor were fulfilled
two-fold; we have
lost, gained and lost
again staff members
along the way. The
Spotlight experience
thus far has been filled
with more downs than ups,
to say the least.
So one might ask why we
are still here, why we are
still plugging along, seem
ingly running in place. I
cannot speak for the rest of
the staff, but I’m still here
because I’ve been here
from the beginning. I
joined the Spotlight staff as
one of those “dreamy
freshmen” Lakisha will
later mention, and have
not officially retired from
it ever sense.
The Spotlight gave me
my first front-page story,
and my first shot at an
internship. It has taught
me both patience and
impatience, tolerance and
out-and-out frustration,
but most importantly, it
has taught me to hold my
head high even in the time
of failure.
We are aware that we did
not produce a paper last
semester. The responsibili
ty for this faux pas is sure
ly mine to take, and
although I feel bad about
it, we (the ones who
haven’t yet run screaming
for the hills) are all the
better for it style-wise, in
my opinion. And if we
have produced our paper
last semester, our first
story wouldn’t have been
as AUC relevant as the
School Daze party. So you
see, everything happens for
a reason.
For a reason. That one
tried and true statement is
hard for some of us to latch
onto in the face of what
seems to be worldwide
destruction lately: the
tsunami in southeast Asia
on the forefront, with the
war in Iraq, the famine in
the Sudan and record
breaking, life-destroying
weather in California and
other places following
behind. As we have now
witnessed just how out of
our hands some aspects of
life are, it seems to be our
duty to stop sweating the
small stuff and focus on
what we can control: how
we govern ourselves, how
we treat each other and
how we shape our future.
So I wish all of you well
in the new year. As a grad
uating senior still trying to
“get her mind right,” I
know I’m going to need
some well-wishing myself.
mastheai
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