Posted March 5, 2009 1:55 p.m. If you've been reading The DePauw anything close to regularly this year, you've grown accustomed to the term "intellectual life." As an editor, I've kind of grown to resent the term, because it's one of those phrases that seemingly doesn't mean anything, sucking all the excitement out of what really is a huge issue for the University.… Post the First Comment

In an effort to help get The DePauw into the 21st century, the staff has been thinking about ways to produce more new media content. The fact that I just said The DePauw is a newspaper is becoming hopelessly outdated, as we should really be thinking of ourselves as a news providing service; the medium is irrelevant.… 1 Comment

This will be my last post to the editor's blog, but fear not - next semester's editor in chief, Matt Welch, has said he wants to continue the experiment. Matt may have different plans for the blog than what I've done this semester, and I don't know if he plans on doing anything in the summer or if the blog will take a break until fall.… Post the First Comment

One of the pros of the Internet for media outlets is that it has brought more opportunities to interact with readers, viewers and listeners. This editor's blog is an attempt at interaction. The simple step of putting editor e-mails at the top of stories in The DePauw is an attempt at interaction.… Post the First Comment

This semester has been a fun, hectic time to reportr news for The DePauw - and we've still got some big headlines coming in the final two weeks. I've been involved with the newspaper since the Saturday I moved into Humbert Hall as a freshman, and I can say that this semester has definitely been the newsiest of my eight at DePauw (or seven if you like, since I spent a semester off-campus).… Post the First Comment

In my last post, I mentioned the legacy that 1929 alum Bernard Kilgore has left on The DePauw through a fund he left to the newspaper. Kilgore is a giant in the journalism world for making the Wall Street Journal into a media powerhouse during his time as editor of the paper from the 1940s through the '60s.… Post the First Comment

If you're a regular reader of The DePauw's print edition, you might have noticed that the paper has seemed lighter for about the past month - to be specific, four pages lighter. The DePauw has not been immune from the economic recession and widely known woes of the newspaper industry, and financial concerns have forced us to make some adjustments this year.… Post the First Comment

With my first post back from spring break, I want to clear up one of the most common misunderstandings about what people read in The DePauw: the differences among opinion columns, editorials and letters to the editor. Each designation represents the thoughts of different people and is handled in a different way by the newspaper.… Post the First Comment

Hundreds of copies of the Tuesday edition of The DePauw are back out for distribution to the public after they were taken by freshman Patrick John Kelly Tuesday afternoon. I contacted Kelly and met with him Wednesday afternoon after hearing from a University employee that Kelly had come to the employee's office and asked if he could have all the copies of the newspaper there.… 4 Comments

Posted March 13, 2009 1:55 a.m. In Friday's issue of The DePauw, Professor Alicia Suarez has a compelling letter to the editor expressing disappointment with a story in our March 6 issue titled "Former porn star discusses transition to sex education." She touches on several topics that are key to The DePauw's (or any newspaper's) mission: accuracy, clarity and the allusive concept of taste.… 1 Comment