By Victor Dixon, Editor-in-Chief
There’s a not-quite-cool-enough breeze in the air. There are people filing in and out of campus buildings. There are due dates and deadlines and meetings on your mind. One entire graduating class has left this campus, and an entirely new one is making Newman its home.
That’s right: It’s back to school season.
We at the Vantage are glad you’re back, and we have a good feeling about this year. There are a number of changes on campus that we’ll be covering in coming issues, which will be published every Thursday throughout the year.
Something tells me that change will be an ongoing theme for this year. And not just change but improvement. Of course, as change tends to do, this will happen without any intervention. But you, the reader, should make it a side quest, if you will, to actively be a part of that change.
The reality is, we’re a small community of students and faculty. Because of that, it is a dangerous thing not to have every single person advocating for the things they care about and a death sentence to have everyone settle into their small cliques of specific students and faculty at every event they find themselves at.
With that fact in mind, it is your responsibility, no matter who you are, to engage yourself in the life of the campus community as well as the surrounding one. There is a space that exists outside of your friend group, a world that exists outside of Newman. Go outside of those spaces and bring the gift of your experience back into them.
Newman has many beautiful traditions, but this practice of stagnating in our safe little bubbles is nothing but a bad habit that we’ve settled into. So your mission for the 24-25 school year, should you choose to accept it, is to seek out change and allow it to make you better.
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