By Madeline Zann and Monica McFadden

Your lovely entertainment editors are tuning in to say “so long” to all y’all. The Clarion has been such a big part of our first two years at DU, so some serious thanks are in order, but first a reminder of who we are.

Madeline: It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that there has not been a single Monday since the first week of my freshman year that I have not spent doing something for the Clarion. Throughout my time as entertainment editor, a position I started in March of 2015, I’ve been lucky enough to have two awesome section editors. The lovely Adam Lujan was kind enough to spend his last quarter at DU being my partner in crime before handing it off to Monica McFadden. After around a quarter of general awkwardness, Monica and I have bonded to the point where we become slap happy each Monday night at exactly the same time, to I’m sure the annoyance of literally everyone else on staff. But all jokes aside (except we never put jokes aside because we’re too sarcastic for that), this past year would have been a lot more difficult without Monica and definitely a lot less fun.

#TeamEntertainment5Ever

Monica: I joined the Clarion in the spring of 2015 so, in a way, I jumped onto a ship that was already moving. I very quickly started writing two articles a week, and before long applied to be an editor. Madeline Zann and I began as acquaintances through Adam Lujan, the legendary previous assistant editor who coerced me to join the paper. However, after weeks of battling InDesign together, Madeline and I will forever be #TeamEntertainment. I can’t imagine a better partner for teaching me the ins and outs of the Clarion and making dumb jokes with me late at night. Thanks for such a fantastic year.

To everyone who’s written for the entertainment section, thank you so much for dedicating your unpaid time and effort to this paper. We literally could not do this without you.  We’d also like to say that our section is the best, no contest. This is an opinion piece, so we’re allowed to say that. Don’t edit this out.

To Jillian, Kellsie, Connor and Meg, you guys have been awesome editors-in-chief and executive editors. Thanks for the guidance, leeway and for making the paper go above and beyond.

Thanks to the whole staff of editors who tolerate our coordinated slap happiness/mental breakdowns occurring earlier and earlier each production night (we think we’re at about 7 p.m. now). You guys have made long production nights a blast.

Shout out to our roommates for accepting that we don’t exist outside the Clarion office on Monday nights.

We would like to apologize to our Tuesday morning classes for never being completely prepared, thanks to late Clarion Monday nights.

To Illegal Pete’s, thanks for providing the burritos necessary to fuel all of our pages.

Shout out to AP style for changing how we look at all writing ever—Oxford commas are forever the bane of our existence.

To Ryan, the incoming entertainment editor, you’re gonna kill it. Thanks so much for constantly writing wonderfully snarky articles. You are an amazing writer and we couldn’t be leaving the entertainment section in better hands.

Peace out girl scouts.