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Founders Hall. (File photo)

An open letter to the Clarion student body

It’s a new year at Clarion University. The streets and parking lots are filled with cars again and the leaves are turning from summer green to the fiery tones our community celebrates each fall. Thousands of new freshmen have arrived in town, being bombarded by orientations, syllabuses, administration statements, bus schedules, maps, pledge drives, blood drives, bake sales, and campus events. Even for seasoned upperclassmen, making sense of it all can be downright bewildering. That’s where we come in.

The Clarion Call has been delivering the news to Clarion since 1913, two years before the university was acquired by the state of Pennsylvania. Nearly a century after our founding, a lot has changed — they didn’t have Twitter and Facebook in those days — but our core mission remains the same: to provide fresh news, engaging features, and comprehensive coverage of what’s important to Clarion students.

But we can’t do it alone. For a long time, the newspaper was a one-way lane of communication: We print, you read. With 21st-century tools, we hope to establish an open dialogue between ourselves and the community we serve. Send us an e-mail, make a comment on our website, share your photos with us on Facebook. Remember, this is your newspaper. Good luck in the coming semester, Eagles. We’ll be with you every step of the way.