Photo by: Michael Furman

It is 8:30 p.m. on our last night as editors at the Clarion and not one single page is done. Only 16 left to go.

This is not unusual – in the past we’ve been here until 3 a.m. working on pages (and uploading stories to the Website).

But it hasn’t all been tiring, frustrating and chaotic.

There have been plenty of good times.

You see, you never realize it when you’re not a member of the staff, but things tend to get a little crazy around here once the clock strikes midnight.

The truth is that the (friendly) yelling, the frantic phone calls for quotes and the computers and printers crashing are what have made us love our time at the Clarion so much.

Well, that and Clarion adviser Ania Savage’s infamous cake.

We might sound crazy, but we’ve gotten to be involved in a lot of significant events on campus throughout our time here.

Just in the last year we’ve covered the presidential election, the Boone controversy, Norovirus, a drug bust, a drive-by shooting and a hiring freeze.

We had the chance to see and hear Barack Obama before he became president and Bill Clinton before his wife didn’t.

We also met Lance Armstrong after his seven Tour de France wins.

We got to bring awareness to the issue of homelessness through special coverage of Project Homeless Connect.

For the three of us, this feels like the end of an era.

No, literally, it feels like it’s been at least 100 years.

Presidents leave their four- year term with gray hair.

We leave with a broken arm, a case of bronchitis and degrees in a dying industry.

We hope you’ve enjoyed reading the Clarion over the last year as much as we’ve enjoyed producing it.

Our readers have always been a priority, and we hope that you’ll embrace whatever changes the future editors make.

This is Sara Castellanos, Alex Gallegos and Daliah Singer, signing off.