New year, new Rocket

You may have noticed some changes in the look of The Rocket this week.

As you may have guessed, with a new academic year comes a new Rocket staff, and I would just like to take a moment to briefly introduce myself and the rest of the staff to our valued readers.

I am a junior journalism major from Butler, and I am the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper in front of you.

Last year, I was the assistant news editor, and the year before, I covered field hockey and tennis for The Rocket.

In the spring, the majority of last year's Rocket staff graduated, leaving only four, including myself, to return this year.  

That's why the look and feel of The Rocket will be a bit different this year.

We have a brand new front-page design, which I hope you noticed.

Over the summer, we also changed the name of the Focus section to Campus Life, mostly because no one could really explain what "Focus" meant.

But design and section names are not the only things this brand new staff is looking to change.

The biggest change we would like to see is more involvement from the campus community.

We're looking to feature more stories and opinion columns written by a broad range of people, from students to faculty and staff to alumni and everywhere in between.

The Rocket is a university newspaper. Our philosophy, therefore, is that it should reflect every part of the university, not just the students.

We hope that you enjoy our newspaper, and if you feel strongly about something, we hope that you'll let us know by emailing rocket.letters@sru.edu.