It is vital that college campuses have a forum for students as well as faculty to voice their opinions unbridled, and we have worked hard to make the Opinion section exactly such a forum.
To that end, we have collectively decided to change the parties involved in the production of the weekly Verbum Ultimum. In the past, the editorial board consisted of an opinion editor, both executive editors, the publisher and the editor-in-chief. Instead, the opinion editors and editorial chair, a new position committed exclusively to the Opinion section, will meet weekly with Opinion staff to discuss the Verbum, and collectively they will decide what to write in the Verbum column based on this discussion.
With this, the Opinion section has become even more distinct from the rest of the newspaper, in align with our conviction that while opinions should be encouraged, they should be separate from other sections of the paper.
We are committed to providing the campus with not only the latest opinions but also the most recent, and most objective, news available, and changing the composition of the Editorial Board brings us even closer to this goal.