Welcome Freshmen

With many freshmen holding a copy of the Indiana Daily Student for the very first time, I would first like to thank you all for picking up our newspaper and welcome you to stay with us for the rest of your career here at IU.\nThis is a very exciting time to be entering the University. We have a new president, a football team looking to regroup after losing a popular head coach and a basketball team that has the talent to go deep in the NCAA Tournament. Through the expected and unexpected, we hope you’ll look to us for coverage about anything and everything IU. \nThe editorial content in the IDS is composed, edited and controlled entirely by students. Because of this we are able to offer a product that is specifically designed for you. This is your news. It is our goal to focus our coverage on what is most important to the students and the rest of the University community. \nBut for this to happen, we need your help.\nNewspapers are no longer a one-way street, and you can contribute by letting us hear about news tips, concerns or problems by writing a letter to the editor at letters@idsnews.com or you can call the newsroom and talk to an editor at 855-0760.\nAnd while I hope you’ll check out the paper every morning, you can get the latest breaking news at idsnews.com. As one of my main goals this year, our staff will be working continuously to update the Web as events unfold. We also have established a very capable New Media staff that is producing Web-only content like videos, audio and photo slideshows. Finally, you can join the discussion by reading and contributing to several of our blogs. You can currently view the Basketblog at idsnews.com/basketblog for insight on the Hoosiers, or you can learn more about the inner workings of the newsroom in Deadline at idsnews.com/blogs/deadline. We are also in the process of setting up blogs for the IU football team, our opinion section and our special coverage of New York’s Fashion Week.\nAnother thing to look forward to is our renewed focus on investigative and in-depth reporting. For the first time in several years, we created a Special Projects editor position to focus on long-term stories that examine serious and pressing issues.\nSo as you get settled in and begin to get familiar with your new home, we hope you’ll continue to look to the IDS for the news that matters most to you. And we will do our best to meet that expectation.