• Blog
• Videos
• Latest Issue
• All Issues
• Wallpapers

• About Us
• Join
• Staff
• Affiliates

• Site Management
• Helpful Links

From the Editor

As this is the final issue in my control as Editor-in-Chief, I couldn't help but think about what I'll leave to my staff and to the student body.

In the last two years as leader of this publication, I realized that The Artemisia is a direct reflection of the changes that the student body has made in recent years.

The student body voiced its opinions on the last yearbook, which was last published in 2003. Out of hundreds of copies printed, about 35 students picked up their yearbooks. Students were in fact making their own yearbooks, through on-line blogs and social networks. In order for the publication to serve the students, it had to evolve into a mass media form that students are accustomed to, which was a magazine. It is actually the second campus magazine, the first being the "Desert Wolf," which was abolished by ASUN in 1933.

The publication went from a documentary style magazine during my first year as leader to a student interest magazine for the second. It's not that students disliked the documentary version; it was that after asking and receiving opinions from students on this campus, the student body felt that it would better served as a student interest magazine. I decided to listen to my fellow students, because the founding principle of this publication is to serve the general will of student interest.

This publication has changed drastically in the past four years than it has in its entire 109 years of existence (a few years it was not published). For 98 volumes prior to 2004, the Artemisia was a yearbook, which did everything a yearbook did: it documented the school year through photos, illustrations and writing.

It served the University well and it not only gave students a book of school memories to take home, but it also kept a historic document of student activities.

Only a few people on campus today would know that the once famous "Sundowners" club prompted student fun through smoking and drinking. Also, few would know that the University used to host as many as four major dances and celebrations throughout the year, including the Winter Festival and the Wolf's Frolic. The rapid growth of technology and communication was the precursor for the evolution of this publication.

I have received many questions from students on where this publication is heading. My response has always been the smart-ass reply of "where would you like to see it go." Students should not be asking me where the publication is heading, but instead they should be coming to tell me what they want the publication to become. The future of this publication, as well as the rest of them, rests more on the student body than anything else.

I would like to say that I did a bang-up job with the publication, but I regress because it was mostly from the tremendous help from my staff and the student body that made this publication as great as it is today. But, I'm far from saying these have or are the best issues published. This publication has a lot more potential in it that future editors, staffs and students will hopefully tap into.

Lastly, somewhere in recent history, students have for the most part "forgotten" the history of UNR and the traditions that surrounded the campus and the student body. I have attempted to show some histories and traditions of UNR and the student body in the following timeline. Hopefully, this will help get more students involved with their campus's history and further enrich the campus that once was all about the students.

Seed Newsvine

Save This Page