Former EIC reflects on, and defends The Student

All of this experience, I’m afraid, qualifies me for very little in the real world. (Or so I’m told; I hope the real world thinks otherwise.) This is not to say that I feel The Student is irrelevant or unimportant to the Amherst community. Rather, as I climbed up the masthead, I learned just how much attention people pay to the details of the newspaper. Things crystallized for me when a friend pointed out that we had misidentified Sheryl Crow as a Canadian singer. I joked in our office that rea