Look what you did!
Cardinal managing editor Laura-Claire Corson stands in front of the Cardinal's "awards wall," which features honors from the SPJ, WNA and the ACP's pacemaker award, which the Cardinal won half a dozen times in a row in the 1940s. Alumni donations framed and hung those awards, and paid for the sofa slipcover and new chairs you can see in the foreground. Past Cardinal issues also hang on the wall.
Painting (by business manager Josh Janos, who spent his summer up to his elbows in eggshell and crimson), picture framing, computer wiring, cleaning, equipment purchases -- thanks to your generosity when the Cardinal staff returns for work on the Fall Registration Issue next week, they'll have a new office. A clean, professional, fully stocked office lined with awards and past issues and reminders of the great tradition that supports their work.
Cardinal editor in chief Sam-Omar Hall shows off the new Cardinal graphics department's computer graphics tablet, which will allow artists to create editorial cartoons, illustrations and comics for the paper. The Cardinal did not have such a tablet -- alumni donations from former graphics editors provided it!
It's hard to overestimate what this means for them. Over and over this weekend, Cardinal staffers told us, "This feels like a kick-start to the year." Those of you who donated towards equipment and supplies have given kids who work hard for little to no pay a much-needed morale boost. Now, when they're working in that office, they'll know what a vast support system they have, how many people they can turn to for help as they pursue better journalism.
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Cardinal business manager Joshua Janos sits in the renovated ad office, which has been painted and stocked with new computers, chairs and bulletin boards -- all through generous alumni donations.
Thank you again for all you've done! Look for further updates from the Cardinal staff in the next two weeks!
