New year, timeless values
A new notebook with an inspirational quote on the cover, an updated calendar of classes and three roommates who you just met – the beginning of the school year is full of exciting and undiscovered experiences. You’ve been preparing for it and you’ve just entered an overwhelming, but wonderful new world.
But we also understand that this beautiful college life doesn’t exist in a bubble.
On top of your busy college and personal life, the world around keeps moving, often to unprecedented directions, and it often demands your attention and takes you away from the simple and beautiful worries of a test grade or a party dress.
World conflicts, National Guard in Washington D.C., measles outbreak in the state, Michigan Senate race, smoke from Canadian wildfires -- there are so many things that happen outside of our college life, but still impact us as students.
Similarly, there has been a lot of news happening on campus that we care about – from the first class of nursing students to the safety questions about the gun range in the Finch Fieldhouse.
That’s when we come in. It is our job as student journalists at Central Michigan Life to watchdog the events that are taking place at Central Michigan University or in Mount Pleasant, as well as to localize the national or state news.
We’re here to question things, to research them and to translate the news for you.
We understand the need of the community to be informed in order to govern itself and maintain a healthy democracy. Every single word that we write is out of care and love for you, our reader.
You have the right to know what’s going on in your university, and you have the responsibility to be informed about the events around you as younger generations have historically been the driver of change.
We’re also here to serve the Mount Pleasant community. According to a news deserts map, Isabella County has only one newspaper and is surrounded by a majority of at-risk counties.
CM Life is a professional newspaper with over 100 years of experience that cares about the voice of our community members and alumni, too.
Back at campus, where CM Life staff is already writing stories, taking photos and recording podcasts, we’re also excited to be back as students. Just like you, we’re dreaming of the special year ahead of us.
And of course, at our staff meetings, we have already shared the goals for this academic year. The most important one always stays the same.
At CM Life, we aim to produce quality, accurate and ethical journalism that matters for our community. We value truth, independence and humanity.
Our goal is to continue to inform you the best we can and to grow every single day as journalists. Amidst all the big and small fires around the world, we hope to bring kindness, empathy and educated decisions through our stories.
And we can’t wait to see what this new academic year will bring and what we can do to serve our audience.
If you have a story to tell or if there’s something you think CM Life should cover, email editor@cm-life.com.
