The Guilfordian has made up the most significant moments of my college career; for the past three years I have lived and breathed Guilfordian. My life stopped revolving around classes or my social life and started rotating solely around the newspaper. I attended my first meeting on day one of freshman year and never looked back. I love this newspaper, I love this staff and most of all, I love the community that we work so hard for.

In our community, there is a large “Guilford identity,” but each and every person also strives to be an individual. Collectively, we have a voice, and singularly we have strong, powerful ideas that could change the world we live in.

The Guilfordian wants those voices, both collective and individual, to be represented in each issue of The Guilfordian. We are a student newspaper, here to characterize the community that we all value so strongly. We work to supply you with information; information that we hope you will analyze, discuss, interpret and argue.

Next year, we plan on holding community forums and sending out surveys to learn from our readers. Our goal is to conceptualize Guilford, to bring to life the hopes, the dreams and the events that make up our reality. If we can understand what you want and need, we can better cater to the Guilford community.

The world of journalism is quickly changing. The inky fingers and fresh smell of a newspaper on a Sunday morning has been replaced with a few clicks of a mouse. And while this may be scary, I truly believe that the Web opens a whole new world, one filled with endless opportunities. Next year, we at The Guilfordian plan on expanding our website, social media and multimedia departments in order to provide faster, more up-to-date and accessible information.

We hope to update the website more often, provide slideshows from events and present videos more frequently. With technology comes power, and we feel that by expanding our website, we will be able to better represent our community and allow more voices to be heard.

While I am nervous to take on this position, I feel grateful for those who have stood before me and helped me get to this place. I look forward to working with the student body, the faculty and staff and The Guilfordian staff — really everyone in the community — in order to produce a paper that we can all be proud of.

Rebecca Gibian, Editor-in-Chief