With the conclusion of the 2004-05 school year, the journalism class looks back on the many things they have learned and take pride in the expansion of their reporting repertoire during the past nine months.

Since school began last August, campus journalists have embarked on a road of higher learning and education. The class participated in competitions and conferences held at California State University, Fresno, and Columbia University in New York City.

Despite losing adviser Greg Stobbe for six weeks, due to eye surgery, the staff remained diligent and produced over 365 online articles during the course of the school year, along with six hard copy papers.

This upcoming school year will see many changes coming to The Feather. The paper will lose a majority of its staff and three of its editors will graduate.

Gary Darakjian, ?06, will replace seniors Alex Elmore and Anne Hierholzer as Editor-in-chief. Matthew Shattuck, ?07, will take over the Webmaster position from Doug DenHartog, ?05.

When summer begins, no new articles will appear online. Instead, the articles published in late May will continue to run until the staff begins to put new articles online in August during the first week of school.

Old articles running online will remain accessible by using The Feather?s archives. This can be done by searching a topic or idea, the name of a student, the name of an article or by searching under the author?s name.

To search for an article, one does not have to know its title; just use The Feather?s search engine to search for similar or related topics.

Classes will resume on Aug. 17, and the new staff will start up the presses again shortly thereafter.