Dear Otter Nation,

Articles /Sports
Date: October 4, 2007,

As you may have already noticed we at the Otter Realm are making an effort to provide our readers with as many up-to-date, relevant stories as possible via our online version of the paper.

Online, not only can you find the stories covered in our print editions, but also stories we consider online exclusives. A story can fall into this category if it is “late-breaking” or if it occurs on what we consider an “off week”, the week that falls between issues.

Also, you will find a new weekly columns online. One column is dedicated to sexual health and the other will offer insight to many activities out of the norm. The first installment of these columns can be found in this issue’s print edition.

We encourage students to submit any ideas or questions they have about sexual health and/or unusual activities, so that the column can best reflect what our community is wanting and needing. You can contact the Otter Realm via First Class with you’re input.

In addition to the online columns are online weekly movie reviews. These reviews offer in-depth looks at current films and their plots. The reviewers’ give the films a grade based on a criteria developed to look at the films plot, genre, acting and overall aesthetic appeal.

Something else you might have noticed is the quantity of staff reporters we have this semester. We hope that the new additions will help to diversify our stories as well as improve our quality of reporting.

At the Otter Realm we respect every contributors opinion and take them into consideration when making decisions. We work as a cohesive collaboration and conduct most meetings as such.

All pitch meetings, the meetings that we hold to come up with story ideas, and all of our critique meetings, when we take a look at the latest edition of the Otter Realm after print and find what we like and what we’d like to change, our conducted as a whole with the input of every reporter and editor.

We hope to make this semester of the Otter Realm a great learning process and ask that out community become a part.

Sincerely,

Mary Freeman, Assistant News Editor and Ombudsman