We’ve come a long way since the last Reveille came out, the football team won a national championship, Saddam Hussein was captured, Gov. Kathleen Blanco was inaugurated and Student Government still hasn’t finished the election code.
So what else is new?
Hi, I’m Scott, I’ll be your opinion editor this semester. Allow me to give you a crash course on the odyssey that lead me to this newspaper.
I spent my early years in the New Orleans area, for a brief period lived in Oklahoma and eventually wound up in Natchez, Miss., where I graduated from Trinity Episcopal High School with a whopping 16 other people (only one other of which came to LSU).
And I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
There’s something strange about coming of age in a small town where people still dress up in confederate generals’ uniforms every Spring for a pageant (that, for the young and young at heart, is basically just an excuse to party).
The people of Natchez are dedicated to their traditions, much like those at LSU.
In Natchez I wasn’t as dedicated to those traditions and never really appreciated them until after I was gone.
It is here where I wound up (not Ole Miss) and found out the true meaning of dedication.
And now here I am, dedicated to many different things such as being a writer, being Greek and being a member of the LSU community.
That’s the business of this paper: dedication.
For those of you who don’t know, Reveille employees come back two weeks before the semester starts to begin production on the next semester’s paper.
Throughout the semester the hard working staff puts in countless hours to make sure the paper comes out and comes out well.
Dedication.
Continuing with the theme of dedication I have to look back at all the things during the past two years I’ve always wanted to editorialize about. I spent the last year as a news writer – so I’ve definitely seen it all.
Nothing truly good can be accomplished without the utmost dedication.
So we won a national championship. Geaux us.
Nick Saban spent the past four years dedicated to preparing his team to win the big one.
Saban’s dedication is unarguable and he is now the highest paid coach in college football.
The athletic department at our school has been putting up for years, five baseball national championships, a slew of track titles and countless other titles bringing in revenue to the University.
The dedication of the athletes, coaches, and staff of the athletic department should be something we all strive for in life.
Chancellor Mark Emmert himself said in a Jan. 1 article published in the Baton Rouge Advocate that Saban’s dedication is essential to his winning philosophy.
“He doesn’t do it with cheerleading speeches or great motivational lectures,” Emmert said. “He does it because he’s such a pro and has such dedication and commitment, everyone naturally follows behind him.”
Just as the football team was dedicated to being the best team in the nation, we at The Reveille are dedicated to being the best source for news at our fine University.
Here at The Reveille we are dedicated to bringing you news, opinion, sports and entertainment in the best form and fashion possible, every day of the school year. We are also dedicated to expanding our readership and your knowledge through these opinion pages. These pages will be a forum for free expression, with a balanced staff that will back up their arguments as well as incite debate through your letters to the editor.
We’ve added a sex columnist and our abroad columnist is dedicated to showing you what Hawaii is all about this semester. Jay Melder is only getting funnier and we even have an advice columnist to help you solve all your problems ([email protected]).
With dedication to this paper and this University by everyone involved, it’s going to be a good semester.