Well, as expected, the beginning of a new semester was entertaining, exciting, exghsting, and calorie-burning. Not only is this our first issue of the paper but it one of the most important issues the Met is putting out. It sounds a little odd because we are doing our DNC pullout this week... yes, two weeks before the actual convention but because we are weekly this is the ideal time. Our issues come out on Thursdays and most classes are not held on Fridays so most of the student body will not even see the issue until the following Monday. This poses as a problem for us since our campus will be on "lock down" as of the 23/24. Hardly any one would be able to see our most important issue. So we have decided to put it out this week, giving students a full week to pick it up. However, that has left it a little stressful because a lot of staff (not including Editors) are still on summer mode. So the issue will have about 4 of my 12 fotogs work.
Now just because they are locking us out of their office and we are a weekly (which means any coverage we do at the convention will not be published till a week after the DNC is over) does not mean we are not covering. We are setting up a home base at my Assistants apartment right off of 15th and we are going to be doing all web work. We hope that we will have video and slide shows to put up on the site. I will post that site as soon as it is ready!
This is a shot I took on Sunday of a group of protestors who met and then marched over to the Pepsi Center to say their piece. Their sign says: "Our Future Will Be Decided For Ourselves." In both Spanish and English.
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