From the editor — September 2014

I want to welcome you to the updated print format for the Harbinger. After nearly five decades of printing as a newspaper, the Harbinger is boldly taking a new magazine-style form.

The decision to make this change wasn’t made lightly, and the process to make it a reality wasn’t an easy one.

What you are holding right now is the result of months of research, weeks of design and countless conversations that were all directed towards making this the best possible resource for students at ICC and a pioneer among Illinois community college publications.

Every letter and line of this publication was created by student hands. While our college advisors gave occasional suggestions, the editorial board, and supporting students, were this magazine’s true creators.

“Deuces,” the last word in the last column on last page of the May 12, 2014 edition of the Harbinger, now has new significance.

It was meant as a fond farewell from the then-graduating editor-in-chief, Kelsey Wernsman, to the college and newspaper with which she had become so familiar, but it became the last word typed into the Harbinger during its 47 years as a student newspaper.

I feel it was a perfect way for the Harbinger to depart in peace from its past and move with excitement into its modernized future.

I am proud to be leading this new journey for ICC, and I am excited for where I know it will take us in the months to come.

Please read on and don’t hesitate to send me your thoughts on our progress.

Reid Harman

Editor-in-Chief