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Show Page 15 The Signpost Wednesday, April 27,2005 What I learned as editor I hardly ever got a call if we accidentally deleted a paragraph of a news story while jumping the content to another page, but if we placed the wrong crossword By NATALIE CLEMENS solutions I was sure to know by 9 the next editor in chief | morning. The Signpost I learned that student journalists have varying opinions when it comes to ethics. I had many frustrating discussions with reporters on what I thought they shouldn't be doing. In doing this, I learned that As editor in chief of Vie Signpost, I was being a leader can be lonely. I learned that people always want to privy to some experiences I will never talk to you if you are asking them positive forget. Many other universities pride questions, but once the hard questions themselves on the journalism classroom come, they tend to hang up the phone or experience that their students receive. get really quiet. At Weber State University, students are able to get more hands-on experience " I learned that some of the best stories because the faculty and staff trust them are those that are the hardest to write. I with the duties and responsibilities of the will never forget interviewing the brother, father, best friend and sister of a student campus newspaper. In my two-and-a-half-year tenure at who had passed away. I learned that I was glad to marry a The Signpost as correspondent, news editor and then editor in chief, I have former sports editor of The Signpost so he learned that there is very little that I really knew what marrying the future editor in know. I think I will be constantly adding chief would do for his social life. Some say that the editor in chief is the to my list of things I have learned as a most powerful position on campus. At journalist. Here are a few highlights from that times, I feit like I was the weakest person on campus. I was tired, cranky and list. stressed. But deep down inside, I loved During my time at The Signpost, I every minute of it. From early mornings learned that sometimes, amazingly and late nights to weekends and holidays, enough, people don't really like getting I will not forget my experiences at The the picture of their newly wrecked car Signpost. put into the newspaper - especially if I think the most important thing they were the ones who forgot to put on I learned is that everyone has an their parking brake. interesting story to tell. I am just glad that I learned that the highest point of I have been able to be the voice for some interest in the newspaper, for most of those interesting stories at WSU. people, is probably the crossword puzzle. Everyone has a story to tel often don't acknowledge that every person walking by us has his or her own life, one that is continually pulled By MARIA VILLASENOR and pushed in different directions by different forces. managing editor | It's hard to know what people go The Signpost through. It's unrealistic to expect or to even hope for everyone to walk down the hall shouting out about their day for any to listen. If everyone spoke at oncei you wouldn't be able to hear People like to be heard. If there's anything. But by reading newspapers, one thing I've learned from my two we can learn about and from each years at The Signpost, it's that everyone other, little by little. has something to say. Some shout it The most important parts about out. Some tell you when you ask them. journalism are the personal stories. Some tell you when no one is looking. The experiences I have of interviewing Some say it in a whisper. Some want to people and hearing them tell me who say it, but don't know how. Some don't they are have been invaluable. The want to say it at all. who, what, where, when and why are Everyone has a story to tell, even if staples in journalism, but the who really makes the difference between they aren't sure how to tell it. just another bit of words and an issue But when someone is willing to you remember for a long time after listen and someone willing to talk, the story unfolds. No article is complete you've put the newspaper aside or without a quote or two from a person recycled it. to break up the drab text. These quotes Who will be affected? Who was let people speak with their own voice, affected? Who died? Who lived? "Who" is it. and they allow others to listen. Every day on campus, we walk "Who" is the reason to get up every by each other hardly knowing who morning and write; because the story anyone is. Though it's obvious, we has to be told. 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