Ever since I first set foot on the third floor of Witherspoon Student Center, the editor’s office seemed to be on another level.

I admired those who seemed to know so much, and became great friends with some of the latest to sit at the desk from where I now type this column.

I served as second in charge for a semester to last year’s editor, Tyler Dukes, and learned all I know about being an editor, running a staff and making the ethical decision from him.

Tyler left me with a staff that is more than capable of building on the work we accomplished last year.

We have the people in place to build our credibility with you, the reader, and to bring you an expansion of content, both written and visual.

We’re bringing back the Focused section to provide you with in-depth coverage of issues effecting our campus. We’re unveiling the World & Nation page in our larger papers in an effort to make the Technician your stop for all forms of news. We will be expanding our content on the Web through blogs, breaking news updates and more audio slideshows.

We will be working to gain your trust through accuracy and skillful reporting. But we can’t do it all by ourselves — we need your help.

If you think we wrote something unfairly, if we missed a crucial aspect of an issue, even if we spelled something wrong, we need you to tell us. The only way to gain your trust is by interacting with you.

So here’s who we are — the faces on this page. We’re normal students, who spend long hours on the third floor of Witherspoon putting this paper together in hopes that we’ll see one of you smiling while reading it in class or talking to another student — positively or negatively — about something we covered.

When you see us around campus, in class or out on the town, let us know how the paper’s doing and what you’d like to see. Send in letters to sound off on our paper.

This newspaper is worthless without its readers.