As you may have noticed, the Justice has changed since our last printing on May 20. Although the newspaper may not look exactly the same on the surface, please be sure you are looking at the same reliable weekly Brandeis students have been reading for 54 years. While our style and layout may change from time to time, please know our content and reporting remains as professional and complete as we can make it.The Justice has a large staff of dedicated students and an editorial board of 17 sophomores, junior and seniors who constantly attmept to improve the newspaper. Redesigning the look of the Justice is just one way in which we are seeking to betterour product.

Giving the Justice a new look is not a new affair. Our newspaper has evolved over our half-century of existence, as many other newspapers have as well. A newspaper must remain current and be able to respond to its readership; we feel the changes we have made achieve that. Unnecessary style elements have been removed and bulky elements refined. New items also have been added to make the paper easier to read and more interesting to the eye. We hope we have achieved our goal of making our paper more accessible in these ways.

Please be aware of some more substantial changes: "Brandeis Talks Balk," our section in which students get to voice their opinions on fun topics, has been combined with the "Quote of the Week" to create what we call the "Op-Box;" a new index can be found at the bottom of the front page that will guide you to what is most important and interesting in the current issue and in future issues; the Features section has also been given a new look to define it better as a truly separate section of the newspaper.

We are most proud of our new editorial page, however, which you are now reading. The increased size of the staff editorial section will allow us to use this space to better serve the Brandeis community with useful commentary on our university and our world. We will still run as our lead editorial the same commentary we have always given on the most important issue of the day, but we will also now run additional editorials on other more general issues we have not had the room to focus on in the past. We plan also to run series of editorials that will give in-depth focus to different angles of important issues over the course of a few weeks.

We hope our readers will enjoy the changes we feel have improved the product we work hard to put out almost every Tuesday morning of the academic year. Please note, however, that we may adjust certain elements over the course of the semester as we strive to perfect the changes we have made.

Enjoy the Justice and the 2003-2004 academic year!