Dear Readers,

There comes a time, not when you give up, or run out of ideas, but simply when you're graduating and you have to focus on packing, relationships, jobs, ample other things. With degree in tow, it becomes improper to keep running a little campus magazine. Not only improper, but unnecessary, silly and probably a little pathetic, too.

More established campus organizations have a succession plan; NUcomment, always a bit haphazard, is facing a fork in the road with few places to go. Should we take this rag down with us, or is there a worthy heir to NU's only online magazine? We've fielded noncommittal inquiries, but so far, no serious takers.

Put together a team with a competent editor, a Web designer and a couple of right-hand funnymen/slacker types, prove to us that you won't turn NUcomment into the Chronicle, and maybe, just maybe, it'll be yours.

NUcomment is a sure-fire springboard for success: Stacy Shoemaker, who founded this rag, well, to be honest, I don't know where she is, but I'm sure she's doing well. Slade Sohmer, last year's editor, quickly landed a job in the journalism-heavy world of day trading. It's late May, and neither David Bartholow nor myself has yet to secure post-graduate employment. Like I said, this could take you right to the top.

Career jokes and succession pleas, however, must yield to sentimental waxing. I said in my first letter as editor that collegiate contentedness was simply about "finding something to be proud of." And as I close my last letter and start thinking about graduation, I know, wholeheartedly, that NUcomment was that thing.

So proudly, fondly and for the last time, I say, thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Luke Winn
Editor-in-Chief

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