Issue 3, subset 1: The First Battle of Bull Run

Friday morning, my history professor began talking about how he couldn't contain his swearing when he saw the morning's headlines. Our college president, Dr. Thomas Fallo, is asking for a 13 percent pay raise to his already astounding salary. As of yet, EC has cut 150 class sections and is on warning from the accreditation committee, so this demand has hit the campus hard and is causing an uproar. The board meeting is to take place today, and as of yet, I am calling around to find out the location of the meeting.

The impact across campus is so great, that the meeting can no longer take place in the standard board room. Of course, with an issue as delicate as this, the new location of the meeting is remaining relatively undisclosed to keep people at bay. As a journalist, not only can you agilely take on these diversions and barriers, you live for them. Like a wolf with its sights set on a weaker animal, journalists chase down the story because stories are naturally weak. As long as they are going on, they are in the public eye--anything out in the open that much cannot sustain itself and cannot continue to run for much longer.

Still, people tend to protect stories and shoo away any fastidious and hungry journalists. There are a lot more administrators, faculty and staff than there are members of the Union. This is why a journalist's only hope is always persistence, which does NOT come naturally. This is why journalists should always first come to the side of those more experienced in order to inherit this quality.

At this point, the opposition has us under its thumb and have us squirming under the strain of the "First Battle of Bull Run." There is still, however, plenty of time ahead of us. We're going in for the kill.