A FRESH START

By: Rhoda C. Anniban

I was sitting under the umbrella tree in front of the faculty building of IEA when Ma’am Leah approached me and told me about the release of our first ever institute paper. At last, an institute publication for the students of the IEA. Having this kind of publication doesn’t mean competition among the six institutes but an opportunity for us to voice out what is happening in our own institution. A publication that focuses not only within the institution but it also analyzes issues outside the school campus as well.

Being the first editor-in-chief for the institute publication is just one of the roles that I never planned. Hard to believe because I’ve been to school politics for almost two years and entering the school publication never stroke a string in the recesses of my mind. But all of these changed when an unusual thing happened during the election of officers for the Supreme Student Council, a big thing to me that changed my perception about school politics and caught myself holding my pen as a weapon to write the truth. From then, I focused my attention and went full time writing for the institute publication-I never looked back since, not because I didn’t want to but because it’s been a dizzying and exhilarating ride.

The Institute paper will serve as a major venue for the exercise of campus press freedom. Through this, both the institute press and the target audience will appreciate the role of the press in shaping public opinion and the importance of maintaining the standards of the practice of journalism.

The institute paper will serve as the voice of the students and will serve as watchdogs for the public. In today’s setting, the institute press can help strengthen the youth and consequently will form a social change.

Institute press differs from other sources of information because Institutional publications are theoretically for the youth. It is expected to maintain fairness and objectivity but at the same time uses the perspective of the youth in analyzing the situations within the Institute and within the school campus and the larger community as well. That’s why the release of the first “baby” should be hailed by students of the IEA for we the Editorial Board, Staff and Adviser shed a lot of ink, spent sleepless nights and squeezed our brains for the completion of our “first born”.( Thanks to the Faculty and Staff of the IEA. Long live The Entrepreneur! CHEERS!!!