What
makes
byJolene
Brisbois
One
of
the
most
difficult
pieces
of
writing
to
produce
is
an
honest
self-evaluation.
Perhaps
even
more
difficult
is
writing
a
self-evaluation
after
a
mirror
has
been
held
up
for
you
to
contemplate
yourself
in.
This
is
what
has
happened
for
me,
the
Managing
Editor
of
Free
Forum.
The
self-evaluation
is
of
Free
Forum
and
the
mirror
was
held
up
in
part
by
an
article
written
recently
in
Maclean's
Magazine.
Now,
to
be
fair,
the
Maclean's
article
was
not
written
about
Free
Forum
at
all.
In
part
because
I
never
sent
the
author,
Paul
Wells,
a
sample
of
our
publication,
but
also
because
the
article
i
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only
discussed
a
few
campus
newspapers.
In
a
nutshell,
Wells'
article
is
a
discussion
of
what
makes
a
campus
newspaper
good.
The
final
verdict
in
his
debate
is
time
equals
quality.
Newspapers
that
only
came
out
once
a
week
or
less
often
produced
far
superior
papers
than
those
that
rushed
to
produce
daily
papers.
At
first
glance,
this
would
seem
to
be
a
good
sign
for
Free
Forum,
as
we
only
publish
once
a
month;
however,
the
flip
side
to
Well's
argument
is
that
students
write
columns
but
have
nothing
new
to
say.
Unfortunately,
that
last
part
is
all
too
familiar.
Take
this
article
for
instance,
for
those
of
you
who
have
not
read
the
Maclean's
article,
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Kim
Bonnell,
Jolene
Brisbois,
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Andrew
Steele.
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Mittendorf,
Michael
Brisbois,
Andrew
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those
of
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author
and
do
not
necessarily
reflect
those
of
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Forum.
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Forum
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a
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newspaper
serving
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College
of
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Caledonia.
All
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of
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and
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in
an
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manner.
Free
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opposes
sexism,
racism,
homophobia,
and
other
oppressive
prejudices.
Free
Forum
is
a
monthly
production
developed
with
the
help
of
student
volunteers.
Free
Forum
is
a
member
of
the
Canadian
University
Press.
a
newspaper
my
writing
may
seem
like
a
response
to
Well's
article.
And
for
me
that
is
what
it
started
as.
But
now,
after
reading
what
Well's
had
to
say,
I
realize
that
I
am
writing
for
the
sake
of
taking
up
space.
All
too
often
we
write
an
article
to
take
up
space,
not
to
address
an
issue
that
is
important
to
us
or
to
our
readers.
Another
important
argument
in
Well's
article
is
the
fact
that
campus
newspapers
are
on,
well,
a
campus.
Yet
they
rarely
address
the
two
things
that
happen
on
campus:
teaching
and
research.
Now,
in
the
defence
of
Free
Forum,
CNC
is
a
community
college
and
focuses
largely
on
University
Transfer
and
Trades
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lot
of
teaching,
and
teaching
techniques
that
go
unnoticed
by
Free
Forum.
Not
to
mention
the
programmes
themselves
that
can
be
featured.
Now
I
shall
develop
a
resolution
for
my
self-evaluation
of
Free
Forum.
All
to
often
we
just
fill
the
newspaper
and
hope
it
goes
away
until
next
month:
which
it
always
does.
I
propose
that
the
editors
at
Free
Forum
work
to
make
a
concerted
effort
to
make
every
article
relevant
to
our
readers
and
us.
That
we
hunt
down
interesting
articles
by
speaking
to
more
people
and
begin
to
get
to
know
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beautiful
artwork,
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photographs
and
images
fori
the
pages
of
Free
Forum.
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is
not
to
say
that
we
don't
make
attempts
to
hurt
down
articles
and
images!
for
our
pages,
but
we
could
probably
do
a
better
job
of
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people
can
do
their
work!
better
than
they
do.
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