When the Wheel exposed the Student Government Association's spending of student funds to eat Sunday brunch at the Ritz Carlton last year, the organization's fiscal policy changed. After the Wheel shed light on the poor staffing and organization of the mail service earlier this year, things changed. The Wheel is the student body's eyes and ears and the community's watchdog. With a new Special Projects department, I intend to increase the number of investigative and in-depth stories we report as well as the number of profiles on the people who make Emory what it is. Only by better understanding the people and organizations that encompass this University can we see places where we can grow as a community.
More information is always better than less.
I have also brought back the Wheel's traditional editorial board structure in which all editors debate and vote on the paper's staff editorials. This system ensures a more diverse approach to issues effecting the Emory community as the editorial board, now made up of 17 members, represents a more accurate sample of the University population than the former five-member editorial board. I love the Wheel. I love reporting, and I love asking the questions the average student does not have time to ask. But asking is not enough.