Life as an editor-in-chief is hard. The editor has to be a grammar nerd, a hard ass and a den mother all in one. Occasionally, the duty requires an editor to take late night trips to the printer underneath Earhart Expressway or spend hours, well past dawn, scouring Audubon Park for a "stolen" golf cart.
It's not unusual for an editor to work on the Hullabaloo from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Thursday and then do his homework until class at 9 a.m. on Friday. The editor has one mission and one mission only - to get a paper out no matter the obstacles. It's not always easy, but it's nearly always fun.
With all that in mind, I just want to say thank you. Thank you one final time for reading the Tulane Hullabaloo and for making it to the Views section. Though it does not always show, we work very hard to publish a newspaper every week and seeing you read it is the greatest feeling in the world.
This issue marks the end of the road for the '07-'08 staff, and the last Hullabaloo ever for the Hullabaloo seniors. They have all worked hard to make the paper great. The staff has poured more into the paper than I ever could. They stuck with it through thick and thin.
Traditionally, this last issue also includes our April Fools' edition, the Fullabaloo, and this space is usually devoted to apologizing for its jokes (the good and the bad) and trying desperately to convince everyone it's supposed to be funny(it's about not getting sued, really).
This year, however, the Hullabaloo staff decided to hold off the Fullabaloo until the actual April Fools' Day. So when Tuesday rolls around, look around campus for a new publication that makes the Hullabaloo look like rough toilet paper (not that that's hard).
Otherwise, this is my last issue as editor-in-chief. Over the past two years, we have changed the way the Hullabaloo does business. We have worked to portray Tulane as it is, not as we would want it to be.
We've balanced positive stories with the kind of investigative, hard-hitting news that you, as Tulane's customers, have a right to know about. We've also tried to write about the things you care about, from student organizations to campus life.
The Hullabaloo is a vastly different student organization than it was two years ago. And, we hope you agree, it's vastly better. As the next generation of Hullabaloo leaders take the helm, I hope you will continue to read and write letters - this is, after all, your campus newspaper.
Well that's it for me. It's Thursday night Hullabaloo production, so I'd better go. I think I can smell something burning.
Drew Dickson,
(Almost even more irrelevant than usual)
Editor-in-chief
2008 Woodie Awards
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