I’d like to thank all of the staff for all the sweat, blood and tears that they have put into the production of this newspaper over the last three months. Well hopefully very little blood was actually shed in the creation of the five issues we’ve printed this term.
Let us start off with some thanks to some of our writers. Thank you, Anjali Gopal, Farzi Yusufali, Maddy Liddy, Jon Radice and Jon Martin. Some of you were very timely, and all of you were reliable in getting your articles in. I could always ask you to write on a dime and get something in over the weekend.
Thank you to our layout editors: Hans Tee, Krishna Iyer, and Kevin Liang. They spent many hours slowly plugging away at the same 16 or so pages trying to make everything fit perfectly. They are definitely now masters at putting roughly 2100 words onto a page that is only supposed to fit about 2000. Good job, you have defied the laws of physics.
Next, I would like to thank our copy editors. They caught many more grammatical errors than I ever would have or even known about. Mikayla Micomonaco, Alison Lee and Kate Heymans did a great job and are lovely, beautiful people. They put up with my bad grammar and made my writing look good before it made it into the paper.
Another thanks to Kate Heymans, she was a great advertising manager and managed to keep us in the positive despite the growing trend towards online advertising and the economic depression. You did a great job and searched high and low for whatever advertising you could find.
Thank you, Ammar Masud, for taking on the Twitter role. You did a great job updating the Twitter feed every single day. I am confident that we will reach your goal of hitting 100 followers by the end of the term.
Thank you to Amrita Yasin and Angelo Alaimo, two past Editors-in-Chief, for always being there for me when I needed advice on a debatable issue. They were also constantly checking up on me throughout the production weekend to make sure things were going well and that I didn’t need a major rescue. Angelo was also a trooper for driving out to Mississauga every other week to pick up our latest issue, saving us a couple hundred dollars on shipping.
Another special thank-you to Mary Bland! You were an awesome resource for my random questions about finance and you are a key part of The Iron Warrior. Without you, our finances would be a royal mess.
Thank you for all the amazing first years who came out super excited to participate and contribute. Be sure to keep on writing and improving your skills whether it is for A-Soc or B-Soc (you can write while you are off-stream too!). Spenser Good and Brent McCleave deserve special recognition; you were the two most frequent first year writers.
Finally, Mikayla will be my successor, so look forward to an amazing set of issues in Spring 2011!
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