Welcome to summer at Stanford. It’s a season to travel, read, relax, try something different, make new friends, learn about a new culture and apply ideas learned in the classroom to the larger outside world. It’s a time to swim at Avery, walk the dish and jog around Lake Lag. Watch the sunrise. Savor a latte and contemplate deep thoughts. If you haven’t before, try journaling.

Our modest, student-managed, tabloid-style weekly will strive to puncture the comfortable Stanford bubble while providing readers with information they may not find anywhere else.

Everyone working on this summer volume is committed to multiple endeavors and projects (Palo Alto has a high cost of living, if you didn’t notice). I hope the broad experiences and travels of the staff will be reflected in our content.

This volume will be a testament to the role telecommunications can play at connecting readers and writers in a world more globalized than ever. We will run two stories filed from Germany this week. Our opinions editor is based out of Alabama. A good deal of the paper is completed by people off campus. A dedicated and highly capable team with varying commitments helps put the paper together. We are debuting a redesigned Web site this week. There will be kinks but be patient. It’s part of our drive to innovate content, quality and delivery.

The newsroom is much quieter over the summer than during the school year, just like the University. Organized team sports are not in progress, but the preparation for next season is in full swing. The best television shows may be on hiatus but some good movies are scheduled to come out over the next nine weeks. You can bet we’ll review them for you. There are not celebrity campus speakers clogging the docket but compelling events remain worth covering. There is not the flurry of University-sanctioned activities but we have assembled a cadre of top-notch reporters and columnists who will report on campus life over the summer and brilliant designers and photographers to make those words come alive.

As the guardian of the venerable institution that is The Stanford Weekly, I will be responsive to you – the reader. Contact me anytime about anything at eic@daily.stanford.edu or (650) 725-2100, ext. 501. Come by and visit our office in the Storke Publications Building.

The summer editorial leadership sees The Weekly as filling a very unique niche in the larger local media market. Where others lack the time and space to cover every nook and cranny of campus, we hope to shine light on what’s going on across The Farm. We’ll do our best to let you know what Stanford stakeholders are up to and what an astute observer can expect to see unfold here over the year to come.