From the Editor’s Desk: We’ll See You Every Wednesday

Hello! I’m sitting here at the titular desk, so here goes nothing, I suppose. I am Griffin Krueger, a third-year political science major, and starting next fall I will be taking over as the editor-in-chief of The Loyola Phoenix. 

I am incredibly excited for the year ahead and the opportunity to continue to work and grow with the incredible student journalists who compose the Phoenix staff. 

It would be a lie for me to tell you I’m not a little nervous. The Phoenix is one of Loyola’s oldest traditions and is now entering its second century, as one of our writers Mao Reynolds recently reported. There’s a lengthy list of writers and editors which have guided us to where we are now, and I don’t want to let them down. 

However, I am confident that with our wonderful returning staff, talented newcomers and all the collective lessons we’ve learned so far, The Phoenix’s 56th volume will be amongst the best.

Whether this the first time you’ve picked up The Phoenix or you’re a weekly reader, my promise to you is that when school starts up again in the fall, every Wednesday we will once again deliver you everything you need to know about what’s happening in campus news, neighborhood happenings, arts, popular culture and Loyola sports. 

Now for the sappiness. First of all I’d like to thank my Mom, Dad and brothers for putting up with me and always being supportive. On a similar note, thank you to all of my friends who have put up with me talking about The Phoenix on an incessant basis over the past three years. 

Someone I must mention is my high school journalism teacher and newspaper advisor Laura Landsbaum, without whom I almost certainly wouldn’t be here writing this.

Graduating News Editor Isabella Grosso has been such an important fixture in my life, and I’m not entirely sure how to do this without her. Along those same lines, thank you to my partner in deputy news editing Jacob Danielson who taught me so many things.

I was uncertain coming into this school year as I made the transition to the sports section, and I couldn’t have been luckier to have Andi Revesz by my side as deputy sports editor to help me get my footing.

Outgoing editor-in-chief Austin Hojdar and managing editor Ella Govrik have provided an incredible model for going about this sort of thing, and I could not be more grateful. I am also heartbroken to see arts editors and dear friends Hanna Houser and Angela Ramirez moving on, but I know for sure all of them will go on to bigger and better things.

Featured image by Aidan Cahill | The Phoenix