C. Price Jones

News Editor

Best moment: “We don’t need photo ... umm, where is photo?” “They went on strike.” “Oh, sh. I guess we have to break in and get cameras.” “Ok, now we have to go to the hardware store and buy a new lock. Where’s the power drill?”

To all friends I made since September 2001, freshman year, you made my college experience. Leaving the building would not be hard if you were not the best of friends, here for me in spite of my arrogance and attempts at bravado and assholishness. Remember the past three Jeopardy parties, Meijers trips after editor elections, late nights arguing with Louie, terrible grammatically accurate and topically inconsistent reads, and pink polo shirts popped pre-popularity.

To Jordan, Berkowitz, Tyler: Sept. 11, our first glorious day. To Jen: Freshman English and “Franny and Zooey.” Props to Kylene and Shabina, who left too early. To Carmen, Emily, and Tomislav: you should have been an editor instead of me. To each of my Daily points: you are hot; please more fine young writers. To Andrew McCormack and Andrew Kaplan: you never met deadlines, and I’m glad we’re friends and not coworkers related to government reporting.

To youngins: learn to respect the South and The Sound and the Fury. Journalism is only a test for you; write your novels, short stories, poems. Come visit me in Alexandria, Egypt, when you graduate. Most need interviews: you just need to come. To Adrian and Donn, you are the next Daily point takers. Lay it down.

Zac Peskowitz

Editorial Page Editor and Film Editor

Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe made me do it.

A fair number of people wander into the Daily believing that they will make the revolution. For some reason these intrepid staffers equipped with their pet cause tend to coalesce around the paper’s edit page. Both leftists and rightists have launched various gambits to turn the Daily into their echo chamber. Neglecting the fundamental truth that the fuel of a newspaper is prose, these efforts have been singularly unsuccessful.

Each of us had a unique motivation for walking into the Student Publications Building. For those of you who have ever felt shivers pass up and down your spine when paging through the heroic prose of the new journalists, join the Daily right now. You’ll have the privilege of working with the most decent people on campus.

Eric Ambinder

Sports Editor

It was Joe Smith’s welcoming demeanor that gave me the nerve to walk into my first sports meeting. It was J. Brady’s encouragement and friendship that kept me interested. John Lowe’s guidance, wisdom and companionship ignited the pilot light.

I haven’t spent the past two and half years at the Daily because I love sports, or writing or seeing my name in the paper. It’s been the people I’ve met and the lessons I’ve learned. I found the perfect challenge.

I can’t possibly thank everyone who deserves it. If you know me, you know I appreciate you.

But I will give a special shout out to my buddy Jim Weber, the Realest, a Daily alum. He’s doing what I really want to be doing right now. I just need to find the courage to do it too.

My only regret was not finding the Daily as a freshman.

Sam Woll

News Reporter and Edit Board Member