Founded in 1880 ,The College World is the oldest surviving campus organization at Adrian College. For 143 years, it has served as the voice of Adrian’s student body. In those years, we have reported on the growth and affairs of an expanding college campus, its hopes and dreams, fears and regrets. The College World has been a record of the feelings of the student body on both national and local issues of importance. We have had such a profound impact on the development and growth of Adrian College that Professor Douglas MacNaughton’s 1994 single-volume history of Adrian College is practically a series of footnotes to the College World.
2023, we hope, will be a year of energetic growth for our newspaper. Our ultimate goal is to be the single place where students at Adrian College go to hear student voices and learn about campus organizations and events.
To accomplish this, we are setting ambitious goals this semester. We plan on putting out a print edition at least once every month, available to all students for free. We are working on redesigning our website to give it the professional look that we think the newspaper of Adrian College deserves. We plan on growing and expanding our presence to new mediums, including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and more.
As a student-run college newspaper, there are a number of values that we hold sacred. We believe in holding up the highest possible standards of objectivity. We want to tell stories that are true and even-handed, telling both sides of every story we write and publish.We also believe in highlighting student voices and opinions. If the Adrian College campus community feels a certain way about a campus policy, it is our goal to represent, as well as we can, the feelings of the student body.
We intend to highlight student and professor perspectives on issues of national and international importance. Matters of contention like elections, social issues, and international incidents deserve to be covered in a serious collegiate publication like the College World.
As editor of the College World, I look forward to publishing articles that get our campus community talking, highlight campus organizations, and, more importantly than anything else, are worth taking the time to read.
If you enjoy what you’ve read in this Welcome Week edition of the College World, check us out on our website, adriancollegeworld.com, our Instagram page, @accollegeworld, our Facebook Page, The College World – Adrian College, and our TikTok, @accollegeworld.
In closing, I’d like to thank the individuals who made this edition possible in time for Adrian College’s Welcome Week: all of our writers and contributors, our staff advisor, Kate Mitchell, and Dr. Linda Learman and Dean Andrea Milner, who approved the budget to get this edition printed and available for the entire student body on time, for free. I hope you enjoy what we have to share with the Adrian College community in this issue.