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One of his most interesting contributors
was a student who wanted to cover the
school’s hockey team. The catch was
that this student was on the hockey
team and wanted to write the articles
incognito. He was an enthusiastic fan
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together is something | am still proud of.” He detailed how
he and the team would assemble the paper without the use
of computers—which was much cruder than how it is done
today. He said that they would section out each area of the
paper to figure out how much space they needed that would
allow them to put in their articles while also leaving enough
room for ads. He told me that if a picture did not work or

an article was too long, they would resolve the problem

with X-ACTO knives. “We would spend four to twelve hours
making the paper fit into the various pages we had,” he said.
When | asked him how he feels about The Plant being online
only now, he simply chalked it up to a “sign of the times.”

Seeing as my dad has such a flair for writing, | always found
it odd that he never continued with his writing in any major
capacity. He clearly enjoyed it, and even today still reads the
physical paper that is delivered to our doorstep every day.
While my dad's current contributions to the writing world mostly
consist of the “dad joke of the day” variety, | hope that one day
he considers looking into ways he can write again.

My goal of writing this article was not just to profile my
father’s work at his college paper, but to showcase how much
fun it can be to write for a college paper. In the year plus since
| joined the paper, | have made content that | am proud of,
but also some great friendships. For anyone out there who

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is reading this, wondering if they should contact the paper
about contributing—but worried about putting themselves
out there—| can tell you that | felt this way too, but
challenging that fear and getting my first article in the paper
was one of my best moments. | can only hope that others can
enjoy the same pride and satisfaction that | feel writing for my
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strations by CJ Sommerfeld