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Gwanghyunro at CNU is again filled with rushing students trying to make it to class and East Gate is bustling again with young people. The university is alive again after a long hiatus during the winter vacation. With the exception of freshmen and probably returnees from military service, entering the university gates provides an unexplainable sensation, that tingling feeling when something new starts. After a deep breath, ‘this is it’.
For Tribune reporters, it is another day of reporting and meeting up with deadlines. There was no recreation, no proper rest, no personal plans carried out as winter vacation was used for various plans unrealized during the semester. It feels rather awkward to hear students being excited about going to school once more as I have been going to the Tribune office almost every single day in the duration of the winter vacation. As I shared this routine with other junior reporters and editors of mine, and I believe that they deserve a pat on the back.
For the past vacation, Tribune reporters did their best to develop new ideas for the monthly publication. Increasing online content through social media is one of the targets for 2013 and collaboration within the CNU Press and Broadcasting Center and other English collegiate newspapers are focal points for the New Year. We are excited to say that the Chonnam Tribune Assessment Committee (CTAC) will start as well this semester and the reporters are looking forward to hearing more from our readers. There is lot in store for the new semester and it is my sincere hope that all the time devoted by the hardworking Tribune reporters will be as fruitful as we have imagined it.
So much so, as the head editor, I ask for the continuous support of our readers, dear colleagues from CNU. As the official English newspaper of the university, our reporters have been in the forefront of delivering up-to-date and in-depth news and discussions about on and off-campus issues. The Chonnam Tribune has been the vanguard of the internationalization efforts of the university, spreading its readership not only domestically but abroad as well. Recently, I found out that the monthly publication is a regular read amongst students in the Asian Affairs Center (AAC) of the University of Missouri (MU). As more and more CNU students go abroad for various exchange programs and more partner universities abroad send their students here, it is the sincere hope of the Chonnam Tribune that the CNU community accommodates this change with open arms.
As the 45th year of the Chonnam Tribune opens, may it be a calling for more students to enter the ranks of the corps of student journalists steadfast in their mission to provide information with its target audience. Viva la Chonnam Tribune!
By Rigoberto Banta Jr., Head Student Editor
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