A couple of weeks ago something very strange happened here to The Pacer staff. When some students were turned away from Sodexho because of a heretofore unwritten Sunday dress code, students got angry. Then they got involved. Pacer staff received e-mails. People came up to us, telling us what happened, and that we had to address the issue. That’s not a problem for anyone on this staff. The two things that we all have in common are we hate injustice, and we have an insatiable curiosity. We have to know what’s going on, when and how it happened, who’s involved, and anything and everything else that other people don’t want us to know. To put it bluntly, we’re just plain nosy.

What was amazing though is that more students got involved than usual. Time and time again the staff laments that we just can’t seem to get students to get involved, care about issues, and last but absolutely not least, talk to us. So many times we hear a complaint that such and such wasn’t even in The Pacer. It’s true that there’s only so much space in the paper, and a certain amount must be blocked off for advertisers. Without them we wouldn’t have a paper at all. It’s also true that sometimes stories that the editors plan to publish get bumped because some other issue suddenly comes from left field, such as the Sodexho dress code, taking everyone by surprise.

And if the truth be told, we need your help. As good as we are, we don’t know everything. We don’t have a crystal ball sitting on a desk here that lets us look into the future to know what’s happening on campus. We have one ordered, but it hasn’t come in yet. No one here knows how to read tea leaves (we live on coffee, colas and chocolate), and we can’t find the little plastic pointy thing that goes to the Oiji Board. Actually, we can’t even find the board. We live by a rule of organized chaos.

If you know of something going on that you think isn’t right, let us in on it. If you think some issue should be addressed that hasn’t been, tell us. If your club is having some type of activity and you want everyone to know, write to us. And if you choose to not contact us, then don’t get mad when the story isn’t in the paper, because even we can’t print what we don’t know.