New Year brings new goals
Features editor shares 2001 plans

By now we’ve all realized that last year’s big celebration of the new millennium was in actuality a celebration of just another year. People across the world toasted to a new millennium Dec. 31, 1999, just like some did for the year 999.

Unfortunately, they got the wrong year.

Like 1,000 years ago, the same thing will happen over and over again. It’s really not a big deal aside from the killer hangovers the next day.

Although this year’s celebration wasn’t as big as the Y2K craze that hit last year around the world, I, personally, had a reason to celebrate. Two weeks before Dec. 31, 2000, I had been offered the position as features editor.

When I was offered the position, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting or what the job entailed, but I knew I was excited. After a week of training, I’m still not sure what I’m doing, and I’m feeling somewhat anxious.

A couple of years ago, I finally decided on a major. I had switched from criminal justice to English to sociology almost to Spanish and French and, probably, a couple others. Needless to say, amid all the confusion and overwhelming loads of homework, I decided on news-editorial journalism.

I have a great passion for writing, and I’m also excited about designing the features page. I think photographs are an important quality of a features page. Sometimes too many words can ruin what you already have in a picture, so I plan to use a lot of art. I suppose that means I need artists and photographers as well.

For now, the ideas in my head are useless until I find writers to help me turn these ideas into stories.

That’s where all of you come into play. I admit I need help with putting this page together, and I want to have a lot of fun doing it. I look forward to working with new faces and old faces that I’ve worked with in the past.

So, to all of you, e-mail me with story ideas. Even better, come up to the Skiff and fill out an application to be a writer.

I have many story ideas for this upcoming semester. Since most students here like to go out Thursday nights and to not show up to class the next day, I intend to have a weekend planner every Thursday. The planner will consist of local restaurants and bars, art exhibits, theater and even a movie guide with locations and times. If there’s anything else you want to see in the weekend planner or you know of an event that might be fun to attend, you can contact me.

Other ideas that I have somewhat brainstormed in my head are decorating tips, spring break getaways, fashion trends, names and faces of professors, students, faculty and staff and an upcoming story on beer.

Each week I would like to have someone critique a restaurant or bar in the area. Distinguishing the good ones from the bad ones is always key in determining where to go on a Friday night.

Whether it’s about travel, health, science, technology, art, entertainment or some other idea, I want to hear about it. Let’s start off this millennium the right way.

So, as we begin a new semester in a new millennium, let’s remember that a millennium is 1000 years, not 999. Hence the word millennium.

Features Editor Yvette Herrera is a senior news-editorial journalism major from Albuquerque, N.M.
She can be reached at (yvebex@yahoo.com).

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