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With another week until classes begin on U of L’s Belknap campus, The Cardinal went to print early this year in an attempt to atone for past sins. We humbly confess that The Cardinal has maintained an almost microscopic level of visibility on the Health Sciences Campus. Our penance, we hope, is change.
This year’s staff at The Cardinal acknowledge our oversight; in past years we have, on several occasions, failed to report key events and breaking news outside of our little niche at Belknap. Mindful of these glaring omissions, the staff at The Cardinal has warmed the presses early, and devoted our first issue to you, the health science students and faculty, with the following objective in mind: shameless begging.
We need your help. The typical Cardinal writer is an undergraduate peon in a liberal arts field. Our staff’s resident expert on matters pertaining to the hard sciences is a sophomore pre-med student — and while he’s helpful, we could certainly use more representation from the field. As for the rest of us, we likely couldn’t find the Health Sciences Campus without using Fourth Street Live as a landmark.
In short, we need guidance from those of you who call the HSC home.
Whether it’s an unaddressed student issue, breakthrough research, or a unique student or faculty member who deserves attention, your continued feedback and support will empower us to write a paper relevant to the concerns of all U of L students, and not just the ones we meet in our classes.
Moreover, we are aware that the University of Louisville has emerged as the breeding ground for innovative medical research in recent years. The national attention and admiration awarded such breakthroughs has been belied by our silence.
It is only fitting that these accolades receive the media attention they so justly deserve, and again, it is only with your help that The Cardinal can provide this much-needed service to the student body.
Having humbly and whole-heartedly said our mea culpas, we ask for your participation. Write a letter to the editor, submit an opinion column on a topic of note, or contact Editor in Chief Charles Westmoreland about a permanent position on the staff, and teach us how to write what you want to read.
We’ll thank you.
