Saturday, August 13, 2005
“The Times They Are A-Changin’.”
When our parents attended college, we were but glimmers in their eyes, and the Internet was but the apple of technology’s eye.
Today, however, one of the first items on students’ daily to-do lists includes checking e-mail and browsing our favorite Web sites. With a click of a mouse, students can fulfill informational needs about topics limited only by our imaginations.
In this age of instant messaging and instant gratification, expect to see breaking news on our Web site, www.kansan.com.
To better serve readers who frequent Kansan.com, The University Daily Kansan will post stories, photo galleries, polls, graphics, movies and links that will give readers the full story and leave no unanswered questions. Our goal is to be the first place you look for KU news as it happens.
Whether you are looking for information about how Student Senate’s decisions affect your tuition, a conversation topic, or simply your horoscope and the crossword, the Kansan can be your daily guide to life at the University.
The Kansan plans to better serve its community through Web site features such as online polls.
The topic of our first poll asks whether we should change the format of the print edition. Throughout the country, newspapers continue to change their formats from the traditional broadsheet version — the format we currently run — to a tab or Berliner format. For an example of a tab format, look to the summer editions of the Kansan. The Berliner format is a few inches taller, but still opens as a book or magazine would.
Some readers have said a tab format was not only easier to read, but easier to manage and hold.
On the other side of the argument, the tab format takes away from the tradition The University Daily Kansan started with the broadsheet more than 100 years ago in 1904. Some readers have said they thought a change in format might take away from the credibility of the publication.
Before the staff makes a decision, it will hold formal focus groups, but let us know what you think today.
The Kansan is your newspaper, and the staff will make decisions based on what makes you happy. As the student voice, it’s important that we represent you. No matter how long your stay at the University, consider campus your community and make your voice heard.
Caster is a Shawnee senior in journalism. He is editor-in-chief of The University Daily Kansan.
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