Letter from the Editor
By Mia Timlin
Welcome all to a new year at The Wheel! We’re so happy to be here, and even happier that you have the opportunity to read this in your own two hands. Maybe this is the first time you’re reading The Wheel. Maybe you’ve received our online editions in your email inbox in past years. Maybe you’ve picked up one of our end-of-semester Special Editions and asked yourself ‘we have a student newspaper?’ Our hope for this year is a year of change, growth and community. We’re going through some big changes, in hopes of making The Wheel the hub for student voice, identity and information that it was always meant to be.
Our first major change is that physical printing will become more regular. We want to be part of the physical space on campus. We want to take up space. We want students to see that the things they have to say have a real, tangible, ripple-making impact on our campus community—and what better way to demonstrate that than by taking our words and making them touchable, readable, accessible and real? Watch out for your student newspaper in print around campus every two weeks.
The second change we hope to make is widening the scope of who is writing for us. Students have things to say, and students want to write and students are also really, really busy. With this in mind, we’re trying out some restructuring for how we run. Want to try out writing? Pop into one of our bi-weekly Monday meetings and be a part of contributing to one of our editions. Love it? Join us for the next one. Love it but you’re short on time? Skip an edition or two and come back when you’re ready. Feel like this is your place on campus and you want to dive deeper? Stick around and look at joining our editing team. Hate it? No worries, you never have to write again. Already have a piece written out that you think would be good for print? Bring it to us! No matter your writing experience, role on campus or commitment ability, we have a place for you! Email us at wheel@stkate.edu to get more information on our meeting schedules, writing options or questions, comments or concerns.
We hope that this year can serve for us as a transformation period into the resource that you as students deserve. You deserve reliable and relevant news. You deserve a platform to voice the things that matter to you. You deserve a publication that you feel represents you. But we need you to make this happen. If you have something to say, write it. If you see a gap in our coverage, reach out and let us know. If you see a copy of The Wheel laying around, pick it up and read it. It’s a year for growth, and growth requires all of us.
