Last week, the Day Times (our school newspaper) named the new positions for the next school year. I was happy to hear that I will be a senior editor for the 2010-2011 school year. The senior editor position in past years has been known as a “joke position” for seniors who were not named editor-in-chief, however I intent on taking full advantage of my opportunity to help the next generation of Day Timers and imparting the knowledge I have collected over my three years.
The sports section has been my passion for the last three years and I will need to be especially helpful next year because our sports editors have very little of sports in general. I feel an obligation to “give back” to my section, and have already in this last issue begun the process of guiding the way for the new sports editors. I am excited to see the new editors show much passion and efforts towards creating the best sports section possible. Being a year older and wiser, I have found it important to help the new editors become acclimated with sports like last year’s senior editors helped me. This helps me achieve the fourth IB learning outcome: Working collaboratively with others.
Another exciting aspect of my senior editor job is the honor given to us of creating the back page of the newspaper. I have always thought of the back page as the second most important page in the entire Day Times (behind the front page) and it is important to make the best page possible to attract other students to the paper. This less rule bound page has gotten my creative juices flowing, an opportunity I have seldom been given. For this next issue, the other senior editors and I have come up with a great idea which I’m sure the DCDS community will enjoy.
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