We are not going to be backing down

It is pretty common for many people our age to be treated like they don’t have enough knowledge to speak out about subjects.

We are told that because we are young we don’t understand and we never will.

As a student newspaper we get that a lot. More than most of you will even know.

Between the hate mail, emails, comments and meetings that we have had to have over the last few years, we get plenty of criticism. Not to even mention calls from attorneys and parents.

I will say, my favorite thing is hearing ‘their opinions don’t even matter’ but then they spend 20 minutes talking about it.

I once woke up to a text saying that if I was threatened to send them to our adviser.

How crazy can people get over the opinions of a bunch of college students, right?

Well we are definitely not just college students, not that any of your opinions matter less, but we are all nationally and regionally awarded journalists.

If you ever step foot in the newsroom you will see three walls of awards, as well as awards that decorate the second floor of Old Admin. And those are just the overall staff awards. We have each taken home multiple for our work.

My point is, we are a group of strong journalists.

We put our souls into this newspaper, there are some weeks where we spend more than 35 hours working. It is not poorly done or just made up, we find facts and we use them to form strong opinions or write good news stories.

Before I continue, I want to make it clear that we are human and we still make mistakes, both grammar and spelling. But very, very rarely do we make a factual error.

I also want it to be known that we are not here to make the college look good. Period. We have a public relations department, the ones that send out the CSC Today emails, that is their job.

We are here for you, the students, to let you know what is going on, even if the college isn’t. We want you to have the maximum amount of knowledge possible.

That being said, our opinions are our own and the editorials are voted on by the majority of the staff (you can find the staff listing to the right of most editorials).

We are always doing our best, we have done a ton of work behind the scenes and have also been able to bring to light a lot of stories.

So here’s the deal, we have no plans of backing down. We will continue to write stories about things that people may want to stay hidden. We are going to share with you what we know and continue to write opinions that not everybody is going to like.

We are only working with the facts that are given to us. So the next time someone complains that we don’t know what we are talking about. Maybe they should be doing more talking.

There are no secrets to expose if you aren’t keeping any.