UPON BEING elected the 121st chief financial officer of The Cavalier Daily, I knew the most difficult thing I would have to do on the job would be the inevitable parting shot I would have to write. Having written only one article during my three years working for the paper, I can assure any and all readers that the process is a good deal more painful than I ever would have thought. On a side note, it is undoubtedly assumed around The Cavalier Daily office that I functionally am illiterate; the CFO does not have any specific need for literary skills.
That said, my time with the University's independent student-run newspaper gave me a lot for which to be thankful. Since my time as a lowly Nation and World staffer, the staff of The Cavalier Daily has been nothing but supportive. It has been the people behind the newspaper who have made my time here one of the best memories I will have of college. If you are looking for a well written or entertaining column, you are excused for skipping the rest - see the parting shots by Ross Lawrence or Irene Kan.
Spending 50 or more hours a week in an office - actually in three different offices, courtesy of Newcomb Hall's extensive renovations - will bring any group of people together. Our managing board has survived a seemingly never-ending stream of calamities, in the form of deadlines missed, courier-cancelling snowfalls and story controversies, not to mention the accompanying crash in our GPAs. But through it all, we somehow emerged as friends and, quite possibly, even learned something in the process. And yes, that was me being incredibly clich
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