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Healing, Changing, and Continuing the Conversation
For our final issue of the Wildcat Roar in this 2022-23 school year, our staff decided to think more deeply about problems our world is facing now, and each staff writer proposed solutions to the problems they considered. Though we are merely student journalists, we believe it to be of utmost importance to at least consider solutions that will have a tangible and positive impact on the many problems plaguing society. We may only be starting the conversation—but that matters too. Westminster’s mission is to prepare students to engage with the world, and if the students who have a platform for their voice at this school are not offering up solutions (or at least conversations), then how do we expect to engage the minds of the rest of the community?
We hope this issue can inspire you to think more sincerely about what the world needs, and that this community can continue the conversation of changing our world even after the school year ends and we start all over again.
On the topic of starting over, I just want to express
my extreme gratitude for having the opportunity to serve as Editor-in-Chief of 800 News this year. This amazing staff has worked so diligently to learn and put together a product we can be proud of, and even when we faced challenges together, I loved every minute of it. I will be forever grateful for my time leading this team and for the impact they had on me—this role and the people around me became such an unexpected and immensely important part of my life, and I would not trade it for the world.
Thankfully, I have the privilege of announcing that rising junior Elijah Schmidt will be stepping into this role for the 2023-24 school year. Though it is bittersweet for me to leave and pass the torch, I have full confidence that Elijah shares the same excitement and passion for the job that I do, and that the skills learned in his 2 years on staff have prepared him well for the task ahead.
Thank you to Mr. Vonder Bruegge, the staff of 800 News, and the entire WCA community for making this job worth doing.
