Get ready

We need your help.

Today 25 new editors publish our first issue of The Daily Princetonian. After a term's hiatus, we just returned to our home at 48 University Place, where for decades student journalists used this newspaper to attack such injustices as the Vietnam War and discrimination against African-Americans and women.

We enter our 128th year today, but it seems that the wrongs of former eras may have been more obvious. Or perhaps our predecessors were more attuned to the pains of the community than we are. We need your help.

We are here to serve the University's students, faculty, staff and community. We cannot be satisfied with the way things are because they can always improve. We want to find the policies and practices of this campus that hurt people. We want to expose them.

But we need you to reach out to us and point the wrongs out. We will also double our efforts to reach out to every corner of campus.

The priority for the editors of this paper is to ensure that the power of truth on our front page and the power of persuasion on this page be put to good use.

This requires us to be meticulous and fair. It also requires a community moved to uphold the lofty ideals that the Princeton University name and motto are supposed to inspire.

Exploit this paper as a tool to engage your fellow Princetonians. Should you want to keep your contact with us private, we'll make an arrangement. Our website and masthead can help you get in touch.

Even as we hold ourselves to these ambitious goals, we strive to provide down-to-earth newspaper coverage that is compelling, entertaining and informative:

On Thursday, we'll release the weekly 'Street' section, a new guide to Princeton life Thursday through Sunday. It'll feature a full directory of what's happening on and off Prospect Ave., risqué and fun campus life columns, articles, styles and fashions and pay a newfound respect to the student arts.

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We're ending the four-year-old "Page 3" and will instead be putting out frequent series and special reports on the front page. From the quirky to the serious, check out our profiles of students bickering and signing in to eating clubs, student politics in the 2004 presidential election and the top ten ideas at Princeton that will change the world.

The views expressed on our editorial page now are the product of debate, discussion and the experience of almost 10 staff members who research and examine issues from all perspectives.

'The Brief', a regular feature on Page 2, will summarize the news, at Princeton and beyond, in just a few minutes.

We've launched a new visual design for the paper and plan to launch a new design for the website soon.

Expect more articles about the ordinary lives of Princetonians, and more articles about sometimes touchy subjects — plagiarism, race, health or athletics.

We'll have continued coverage of sports, but more thought to the life of the student athlete and Princetonians involved in sports but not on varsity teams.

The 'Prince' will be branching out into new places, whether with campus forums or books.

The staff of more than 100 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors on the newspaper is a hardworking bunch.

The thousands of Princetonians with whom we get to interact form a remarkable community.

This year can be one of the most special in this newspaper's history — for those in the newsroom, for our readers and, we hope, for many who are not yet readers.

Get ready. — The 128th Managing Board