Spring Arbor University Crusader

Issue date: 5/1/09 Section: Features

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Before I wrote for the Crusader I thought, "I don't know if I want to do that. I'm an English Writing major. I don't want to write news, I want to write creatively." Well, let me tell you, it takes some creativity to get students to pick up a newspaper every week in a one-horse town that isn't particularly newsworthy. Working on a newspaper, even here, is excellent experience.

Some of the best writers in America got their start on newspapers: Hemingway worked for The Kansas City Star and the Toronto Star. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert Frost both had their first pieces published in school papers. It ain't a bad place to start, folks.

I don't know if I'll continue with journalism, but whatever happens with my writing career (and after $80,000 something better happen) I hope that my editor is even half as passionate and committed as Aaron Mueller. He gives me hope that if people have enough dedication to the written word, it cannot die. My experience at the Crusader has been invaluable, and I would like to leave my fellow writers with some encouraging words from W.B. Yeats that I read a few months ago and just can't shake: "Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear.  Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet."

Let Us Go Forth
Number of years on staff: 1
Positions held: Staff Writer; Features Editor
Post-graduation plans: Not a clue! Attempting to relax and also to make rent. Maybe grad school in a year or so. Move somewhere warmer!

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