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Two years ago, the NS Times editorial staff was sitting in an airport discussing the purpose and future of the school newspaper.
They wanted a slogan, a mantra, that would help promote what they felt the purpose of the paper should be and the direction it should take. After brainstorming several ideas, they decided on this: Real. Human. Connection.
This is a mantra that we have carried forward because not only do we write about what is happening in the school, but we also write about people and how the things they do impact our community.
The desire to have real human connections with our school and our community has pushed us in different directions to look for more than the surface story. We want to know more of the why. We want to tell real, personal stories that help connect us, and we want to share information that helps us know and understand what is going on around us.
Real human connection helps us to unify both on the journalism staff level and also as human beings living and working together in our community and school. It reminds us that we are part of something bigger and that we owe it to each other to come together and connect with each other.
This year we decided that it was more important than ever to have connection and dive into the idea of connection more deeply. We have become less tolerant of each other’s differences and those differences continue to divide us. Things like physical appearance, social status, political affiliation, varying opinions, and many others have become wedges instead of bridges.
This year has also caused difficulty with connection because of our inability to be with each other as often as we used to. So the need for connection is greater than ever. This is why we are going to explore connection through writing, video and other interactive mediums to unearth the things that pull us apart and bring us together to ultimately find out why it is important to connect as humans.
