Larshell Green
Editor-In-Chief

Ask any reporter on staff what the most difficult day of production is, and I would be willing to bet that without hesitation they will say Mondays. Most of our audience knows that our newspapers are always available in green bins on campus and around the local area every Tuesday morning. Our online content is posted throughout the week starting on Tuesday. Most people don’t take into account how many factors allow or possibly prevent us from showing audiences newspapers with original, creative and accurate content. Before stories are even written, editors and editors-in-training meet to discuss what goes in the paper. We get story ideas from a variety of sources online, in person and over the phone. Once assignments are written, staff reporters receive them and begin researching prior to interviews. If all goes well, reporters get their interviews, turn in their articles and photos and make their editors happy. Then we have to go through the editing process.Take into account the time we must spend building layout and studying for classes. This is all done over the course of Tuesday mornings up until Monday evenings of the next week when the paper is sent off to be printed by a printing press. Worst case scenario, a story falls through, layout changes and editors spin into a state of fury in order to correct things within very small windows of time. The point of my mini explanation about our production schedule is to explain that it truly takes a village to raise a child. The Lion’s Roar is like a child that requires constant attention, support, creativity and skill. Like a child, it will grow and mature over time. We are blessed to have such a large village that is made up of former staff members, campus faculty and staff, students, community members, interviewees and more. As a staff, we all look forward to producing publications over the next semester that create connections with readers. Whether they agree with the topics we discuss or not, I hope that content sparks a new thought process that eventually develops into a conversation. Language has been a constant force throughout history that has united villages. Let’s not let this tradition die in our village.