The Concordian

Because the office for The Concordian has seen few renovations, the time has come to update the workspace for the staff.

The office, with an adjoining soundproof room, formerly served as a studio for TV and radio. While not the ideal environment in which to run a newspaper, The Concordian staff made the best of the space, but it is now time to transform the rooms into a true newspaper workspace.

The ongoing renovation project is now nearing its final stages. The soundproofing materials on the walls, electrical wiring, holes, and spare hardware were removed or hidden.

A wall was taken down to transform one large and two smaller rooms into two large rooms. These spaces will be used as a staff room and a separate interviewing room for the editor-in-chief.

The old furniture was removed and is to be replaced by two large desks, a printer table, and a bookshelf donated generously by the Greenbrier Times in Lewisberg, WV, which recently went out of business.

“Although we were saddened to see the small newspaper go out of business, we were very excited to get the furniture,” Professor Lindsey Mullins states.

The Concord maintenance staff has spent the last two weeks brightening up the rooms with a fresh coat of paint and delivering and assembling the new furniture, while the custodial staff has helped immensely in tidying up.

As for technology, the CAT has helped to install new programs and to network the office computers.

As the Concordian Workshop advisor, Professor Mullins shares, “The newspaper here at Concord is the main media outlet for students on campus. It is my hope that having a professional looking atmosphere for our students to learn in will draw more students into our department and into our newspaper workshop. I also wanted the students to have a true-to-life newspaper office that they could be proud of here at Concord. When we give student tours I didn’t want the newspaper to be a place we don’t take potential students.”

Professor Mullins feels that the staff now has the tools they need to continue improving the newspaper. The office is now a professional and convenient atmosphere for working and learning. With this transformation, it looks as if The Concordian is going to be better than ever.

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