December Issue Beacon Review

     Once again, I believe the quality of The Beacon as a whole went up, although we still had some major problems with this issue. The biggest problems with this issue were in the formatting of the News and Features pages and, or course, the "Girl Tennis duo wins State" article on the sports page. As we now all know, the WY girls tennis team did not win state, however this title was still published in The Beacon. Although mistakes like these should never happen, we can only move forward from this by fact-checking and verifying everything we publish rather than simply asking one person about a story. On the News and Features pages, both the "Interest in Ethnic Studies class grows at WY' article and the "Staff Picks Holiday Playlist" article chose really horrible backgrounds that washed out the text on top of them and made the articles hard to read. In order to fix this, we are going to have to print our test pages in full color as well as be mindful of our color choices when creating the paper in InDesign. Besides these errors, however, I was only able to find one grammar mistake in this issue (a missed comma in Claire's article), and I found no spelling errors in the rest of the issue. My two favorite stories were Claire's "CPS students take action in wake of budget crisis" article and Lydia's "An interview with a college admissions officer" article. Despite Claire's small typo, her article was really well written and interesting. I think it showcased WY's students in a very positive light and was well supported with facts and quotes. Lydia's article was also very interesting to me and I think it probably caught the eye of many seniors going through the college admissions process. Although there is still some things we need to work on as a staff, I think this was our best Beacon issue yet and that the quality of our paper will only increase from here.