Mother McAuley Review

Overall I would consider the Mother McAuley newspaper as a very well made and successful student publication. The paper was rather long, but throughout the entire thing I thought the McAuley staff did a good jobs of writing interesting articles that their students would want to read. One of my favorite pages in the paper was page 8 with the articles that debated whether or not the U.S. should accept Syrian refugees. This article was similar to the "vs." articles that we publish in the Beacon, however, I really loved the fact that at the end of each article the authors got two members of the McAuley community to give a statement about what they believe the U.S. should do. I think any opportunity to include more people from WY's community in our articles is an opportunity that we should take and this could be a fun way to do that. One thing that I didn't like about Mother McAuley's paper was that it didn't really cover sports very well. Their paper had two sports articles, however, both articles were the equivalent of our athlete spotlights. There were no articles that actually covered a sport's progress in their season or how they were doing this year. Although athlete spotlights can be interesting, I don't think a sports page in a newspaper can go without actually covering the sports that are in season and updating the the school community on how they are doing.