The Justice is not my newspaper-it's yours.The Shapiro Campus Center is almost always bustling, even at 2 a.m. when Java City closes. Between countless club activities, students studying into ungodly hours of the night and new buildings rising by the handful, I see Brandeis as a place of dedication and excitement.

The Justice does its best to capture this energy and preserve it in print.

We have covered campus news for 57 years, and I am proud to continue that tradition as the paper's newest editor in chief.

The Justice office was one of the first things I saw when I arrived at Brandeis. Wide-eyed and enthusiastic after a sportswriting internship at a newspaper in Worcester, I was ready to help represent the school. But I never could have anticipated the extent to which my life would be swept into serving the campus community through journalism. After working as a sports writer, sports editor and deputy editor, my peers elected me to my current position in November, and I am ecstatic at the opportunity to make the Justice a newspaper everyone in the community can look to with pride.

But this cannot be accomplished without your help. I want to know what you want from your newspaper, and how you think the Justice can better serve you.

Although a newspaper can never please its entire readership, there are many ways to make sure the Justice represents you. I openly welcome criticism of the Justice, no matter how large or small. You can e-mail me anytime at justeditor@brandeis.edu, or come to my office hours, held Wednesdays from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Justice office, on the second floor of the Shapiro Campus Center.

And if you would like to voice your opinion about the Justice in print, send us a letter to the editor for publication. As long as it meets our very basic guidelines (responding directly to an article, 400 words or less), we print every letter we receive.

Furthermore, everyone has the right to compose an op-ed of general interest to the community, although space in the forum section for this is generally more competitive. Letters can be e-mailed to justletters@brandeis.edu or submitted on our Web site, thejusticeonline.com, and op-eds can be e-mailed to justforum@courier.brandeis.edu.

The Justice is not perfect. But we are strongly committed to producing a newspaper deserving of our readership. I invite you to look at our corrections box every week on page two. If there's an error we've missed, you can point it out by e-mailing justcorrections@ brandeis.edu.

And although we work tirelessly to find the stories that inform you, there are always things we miss. You can always contact our news editors, Rachel Marder and Noah Bein, with any tips at justnews@brandeis.edu.

The greatest way to help, though, is to come join us. Everyone is welcome, and from reporting to writing, photography, illustrating, advertising and helping us with countless other tasks, there is no shortage of help needed at the Justice. No matter your experience, you are welcome, provided you come with the desire to improve, and to help the Justice improve. I invite everyone to attend our recruitment night next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.

Journalism, though too often viewed in a negative light, still serves a noble purpose at its root: to inform citizens so that they may be knowledgeable members of society, and to act as a watchdog on large powers, be they governments or any other entities. I am proud to serve this role at a university as unique as Brandeis, and to work every week to bring you the news you need. I'll see you on page one.