Warning – This edition contains content that may be deemed useful. Readers beware.

 The sixth and final edition of The Bridge for the Spring 2002 semester is here. While parts are geared toward freshmen and full of insider’s tips, there’s plenty more for the seasoned Bridge reader. It’s fairly big, if you didn’t notice.
We’ve spent the entire month of April compiling information to get you through the ENTIRE summer. (That would be why you haven’t seen a Bridge on the shelf since April 1.) Or so we hope. We also have a little look back on the semester and year as it was, or at least as we remember it.

Enjoy,
The Bridge Staff, Spring 2002

The Final Say… 
    For This Year, Any Way

PHOTO BY STEPHANIE HOKE  

 To say I helped build The Bridge from the ground up is not a total overstatement. I came to LC on a scholarship with two years of high school journalism under my belt, having edited one student publication for Art and Literature called Calliope behind me and endless ideas.

I had many bumps along the path to making The Bridge good.

1.  For the first few months of the Fall semester, The Bridge office was under renovation making production impossible. I attempted to conglomerate a staff, mainly consisting of some weird Alton High Journalism kids and new faces who seemed receptive. In the beginning, it was chaotic to say the least.

2.  My advisor, Pete Hayes was new to The Bridge this year. He basically gave me the reins and told me to run with it, although he’d be around when I needed help. I tried and fell occasionally, but he was more than willing to help me up and show me the flaws in my judgment.

3.  The Bridge had a fairly poor reputation to live down. Although some students still don’t know The Bridge exists, I feel we’ve made it better than it’s been in recent years.

4.  LC is a community college and general interest in extra curricular activities is low. People come to class then rush off to the job/family. Informing people about current events is my job. Getting them interested is a different story.

 After jumping slightly massive hurdles, I feel that I have helped creative a positive student-run newspaper. I can definitely NOT take all the credit for this, however. On a personal note, I wish to give thanks for a year well done.

 I thank my staff, both current and former for making The Bridge happen. Your support and understand has been unbelievable, especially those on staff all year.

-    My advisor, Pete Hayes, for being there and for not getting too mad at my bratty days.

-    Vice President of Student Life George Terry and secretary Brenda Wallace for keeping me informed and in line.

-    Jerred Hennings for all the awesome Sports stuff and making the staff and me laugh.

-    Former Student Trustee Scott Gabriel for inspiration.

-    Tracy Grubb of Student Support Services for all the… support.

-    LC President Dale Chapman and Lewis and Clark Community College for making The Bridge possible.

-    Annice Brave, my journalism teacher at Alton High, for sparking my interest in journalism and helping me get away with things. 

-    The readers for giving The Bridge a purpose

-    Lori Artis and the LC Public Relations Department for supplying us with a plethora of information.

-    All the LC clubs that helped us inform the readers.

-   Brian Barrett, SGA President, forgiving me the opportunity to have a place on the SGA XO board.

-    Stephanie Bertels  for being lovely and wonderful and introducing me to the String Cheese Incident.

-    homestarrunner.com for making my officemates quiet for 5 minutes at a time – before exploding into giggles and weird catch phrases. “It all started when I decided to drink thirty-two glasses of melon-aid.”

-   Finally, the people at the LC Post Office who kept The Bridge from getting lost.

See you next year!

Amy Porter
Editor

Letters to The Editor

Dear Editor,

Nick Harvey is crazy!

Every picture, every article is completely off the wall! To say Harvey is stuck in the 80’s is an understatement. It is in his BLOOD.

Nearly every article is Goonies this, Corey Feldman that, yadda yadda yadda. Goonies is a good movie, but Corey Feldman isn’t THAT great! It’s getting just a tad old! 

It was relieving to see that the recent articles by Harvey were not about the 80’s. One was about a guy saying “I’m my own Baldwin” and the other was about a crappy movie.

By the way, Stephen Baldwin is NOT a sub-Baldwin! So he’s not the greatest actor, but did anyone see that guy on Fear Factor? All the crap that his brothers put him through paid off. Good for Stephen! Otherwise, that article wasn’t bad; it was actually pretty funny. Maybe goofy is a better word. 

Then there was the whole crappy movie thing. Nick wrote about the movie Dungeons and Dragons and then bashed it to death. Who wants to read about a crappy movie? If it’s crappy, it’s crappy, so don’t write about it. Tell us something we don’t know!

One more thing- what the hell is a yellow-bellied marmot?

~LCCC student~
Ashley Luster ;o)

Dear Editor and Staff
(especially Nick),

I have a confession. Since
the beginning of the semester
I have been a loyal reader of
The Bridge. I can no longer
hide my true feelings. I love
the “B-Movie Review.”

Every new issue distributed
on campus fuels my
depraved fandom. With
every silly “I-rate-this-a-
cheese-sandwich” like rating
my attachment grows. My
obsession with the
"B-Movie Review” has
caused me to laugh out loud
during lectures I should have
been listening to. I don’t
 care! The “B-Movie Review”
 is awesome!

When those papers come
out fresh from the presses,
I have to control my urge to
rip open the first one I see
and read the “B-Movie
Review” immediately. It’s
like having a bowl of fruit
cocktail. There’s only one
cherry, and you want to
eat it last, but it looks so
good.

Therefore I salute Nick
Harvey, the B-Movie
Reviewer, (and everyone
else on staff!)

Stephanie Orr