Flakey staff members common, but easy to combat

It’s 9 p.m. on production night and the issue is still a few hours away from being sent to the printers after hours of layout design, proofreading and writing articles at the last minute to fill space. Exhausted and frustrated, you continue to stare at a backlit computer screen, hunched over the keyboard, wondering what you did so wrong that you ended up in this predicament.

Every college editor's nightmare on production day
by: Laurenjmapp

Time management difficult, but doable

When you're a student, time management is always an issue, but a student journalist feels this crunch even more. Newspaper deadlines, homework, work, commuting to and from campus, your social life and sleep are all swirling around each other in a ridiculous frenzy of radioactive waste, so without properly balancing your schedule you can get exhausted, burnt out, sick, or - even worse - miss out on the college experience.

How to fight off evil [interview] butterflies

As you sit there, across the table from your interviewee, it may be difficult to combat the massive flock of butterflies that suddenly decided to inhabit the inner pit of your stomach, but don’t worry, you’re not alone.

It is natural to be a little nervous the first time that you conduct an interview for an article: you’re sitting there, talking to a complete stranger about a subject that you’re not all that familiar with, and trying to sound both intelligent and interested. Gosh, that’s a mouth full!