Ask any Forge staff member about why they do it and you’ll usually get the same shrug for a response. Words cannot describe what possesses anyone to put up with what we do. At the same time however, it’s strangely intoxicating. You just have to get it. Plenty of people don’t however.
But now we can really stick one to the cynics. Last year’s Forges were praised, quite well in fact, by the suits at rectangular tables at the National and Columbia Scholastic Press Associations. These people have thousands of other papers scattered in front of them from thousands of other schools across the country. The judges evaluate every minute detail of several of our issues, from writing to photography, design to business practices. And essentially they gave The Forge a big fat gold star (officially, Gold Medal). Impressive, is the word you’re thinking of.
Don’t be frustrated that you don’t share the amount of excitement that we currently have. Even my fellow staff members can’t quite get in the same celebratory mood. But this bit of news is certainly welcome to those people who really put in their own time and effort for the whole team. They now have further evidence that this did not go unnoticed.
Normally we don’t put names on our staff editorials because the entire purpose of this editorial is to reflect the opinion of the newsroom as a whole. Nevertheless, I’m certain that our staff has the same opinion I do.
Zac Estrada Rosales
News Editor
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