To our readers

In a word, spring semester at the IDS has been “experimental.”

We introduced “Quickies” to the front page to set a more conversational tone for the paper. We designed dynamic, dramatic pages to communicate more effectively with readers. We worked with our Web coders to introduce more than a dozen incremental improvements to idsnews.com, including a database of 60 years of Little 500 race stats.

We broke down the IUSA budget dollar by dollar, followed an IU party master during his craziest Little 500 rave yet, and printed a giant “4/20” above a discussion on marijuana legislation. We covered three student deaths and professor Don Belton’s murder. We reported an on-campus rape and tried to bring sexual assault into the campus conversation. We saw IU men’s basketball’s worst conference losing streak in school history and Butler’s run to the championship.

Thanks for reading and thanks for responding. After all, the only difference between a newspaper and your newspaper is participation.

Brad Zehr, editor in chief
Larry Buchanan, art director
Ben Phelps, managing editor
Peter Stevenson, managing editor