To tell you that Thursday was a disappointment would be an understatement. But to say that nothing good came of the day would be a lie.

I, like many of you, albeit for different motives, like to wake up and be able to depend on the fact that the Technician is there, up-to-date with the daily happenings that affect students and the University, and ready to be picked up from its bins.

Waking up to find out that the wrong version of the front page of the paper that my staff and I worked so hard on the entire day before (and then having to pull it off the racks) does not exactly fit into that mold.

All I can say is — we’re sorry.

We submitted the wrong page to the printer, not for the first time, and have now set firm procedures in place to make sure it never — and I mean never — happens again. We’ve definitely learned from our mistake. We are re-assessing staffing and budgetary issues, which seem never-ending for newspapers with the economy the way it is. Not an excuse, of course, but it is something for us to review.

The Web site, www.technicianonline.com, was of course, up-to-date, as always, with continuous online exclusive coverage from the South Carolina game.

And I can wholeheartedly say I am so proud of the staff and its reaction to crisis. This staff is looking out for your interests as the reader. The business staff split up around campus and pulled papers. Technician staff members rushed to the office, whether they were in classes or elsewhere, seeing what they could do to help rectify the situation. Writers, editors, designers and photographers began to pull the RED football preview from the 10,500 papers and personally distribute the copies around various areas of campus.

We are a student newspaper run by full-time students who are also full-time employees, some of whom have additional jobs. Yet every single one of them is committed to making sure you get your daily newspaper and can benefit from it in some way — even if some days, it’s just that sudoku you’re looking for. We want to restore your confidence and assure you that you will be able to depend on your student newspaper and its credibility.

And as always, we want to hear from you, the reader. After all, as previous editors have said before me, if it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t exist.