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Editor-in-Chief addresses freshmen, urges readership You picked up this Cats Guide and inevitably started reading through it — I like you already. Welcome to Northwest, you’re going to thrive here. The Northwest Missourian is a student-run newspaper covering the news on campus and in the community of Maryville. Our mission is to be the best source of information for the community we serve. We know that these are weird times for everyone and that there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future. My staff and I work as a valuable aid in establishing and maintaining an atmosphere of free and responsible discussion. We are an outlet for bringing student concerns to the fore-
front of attention and for holding the University accountable. We will continue to do so no matter what the semester entails because it’s important to us that you stay informed on the news surrounding Northwest and how it relates to you and your classmates. The Northwest Missourian is distributed every Thursday throughout the fall and spring trimesters and daily online. This academic year, 30 issues will be published with an average length of 12 pages — 4,000 newspapers are printed each week. We promise to keep you up to date with the latest news on campus and around Maryville and to report with accuracy and integrity. But, we need you to support us
too. Aside from picking up a newspaper every week, we want you to engage with us. Our main responsibility is to you, the student. We encourage feedback from you in all forms. Comment on the posts we share to our website and on social media. Send us an email at northwestmissourian@gmail. com. Write a letter to the editor and the Missourian will try to publish every letter — just try to keep it at 250-300 words. Be a guest columnist; the opinion section of the Missourian is an open forum for the community and a place for readers to share their views. If you take anything away from this letter, let it be this — pick up a newspaper; it’s important.
| Editor-inChief Rachel Adamson
