IW Staff Appreciation

I’ve been fortunate to have had an awesome team of individuals who’ve contributed to The Iron Warrior. Without their hard work and dedication this newspaper would have been nothing. There are a couple of individuals and groups of people I’d like to publicly thank.
First off, I want to thank all the frosh who’ve gotten involved in The Iron Warrior this term. Frosh seem to have made up almost a half of our on-campus team this term which is awesome! Thanks for the help with writing articles, covering events, taking photos, developing our soon to be launched website, doing layout, helping with proofreading and whatever other daunting tasked I forced upon delegated to you guys this term. Good luck to those of you who will be moving over to Amrita’s term in the winter, and see the rest of you in the spring!
Next off I’d like to thank all our regular senior contributors. Whether you wrote a regular column or covered events that popped up, you all did an awesome job! Nothing is better when you’re EIC than having an established group of core people who you can always rely on to produce awesome content on time.
I’d like thank a couple of specific individuals as well. First off, a huge thanks to Sydney Bateman who took the lead on copy editing this term! Another big thanks to Adriana Cameron who was here as late as me every Sunday night during production. Your help with proofreading and my forcing you to write cover story articles at the last minute made my life slightly less stress-free. Thanks! Next off- Kevin Ling, the EIC from Winter ’09 and a good friend of mine. Thanks for all the help and advice in getting things rolling. I never realized how many minute details there are to deal with on the administrative side of EIC. Thanks for all the wisdom and guidance. I’d also like to say a huge thanks to Angelo Alaimo who took on the role of Photo-Editor and Assistant-Editor this term. You seem to have a picture for every story, and your photo editing turnaround times will never cease to amaze me.
I’d also like to take the chance to make three announcements. First off, I’d like to congratulate Adriana Cameron who won the prestigious Editor’s Award for all the time and effort she put into The Iron Warrior this term. Next off, I’d like to congratulate XXX who won the Iron Pen Award for having written the most words for the newspaper over the last five issues. Finally, I’d like to announce that pending approval from The Iron Warrior Advisory Board this week, Angelo Alaimo will be taking over the helm of The Iron Warrior in the spring ‘10 term. I’ve had the chance to work with him over the past two terms and I think he’ll do an awesome job! I wish him the best of luck!
Thanks again to everyone who helped out in some way over the past term. Without all of you, none of the issues would have come out this term. If you are interested in getting involved, stopped by The Iron Warrior office in the winter or spring terms and ask how. We always need more people to help out and make us the best paper we can be!