The Kansan marches on

I have found this blog entertaining so far, and even though many of you know me only from my rude harassing phone calls to reporters, I thought I would send a greeting from the Kansan. We published the first summer 2005 Kansan last night. I left at 2:15, but Vaupel stayed until the bitter end. EdPerks is dead! We have something new called InCopy. Even though none of us really know how to use it, we are learning, and it is far friendlier and more rational than EdPerks. But we are learning slowly. Our techie said today's Kansan was the first paper in the United States to be published using Adobe InCopy. I don't know whether that is true or not, but it sounds good. Much to my surprise, I woke up a couple of weeks ago and found that I am the Kansan summer copy chief. Malcolm only has 4 people in his 699 class now that one person dropped out, for bad grades I think. One of them is the main copy editor, and for three hours a week on Tuesday nights, we have another copy editor. The reporters are going to have to be writing a lot of stories. The eternal Vaupel is our leader, and the crown prince Austin is the campus editor when he's not working his real job. I hope all of you out there doing real things in the real world appreciate what you have.

John S.