Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Doug Barkey First place visual arts competition.

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 1 I walked downstairs, past the P.O. boxes and through the door to the boiler room. Passing through another door, I wandered the large room until I came to a door with a sign that read “Clarion.” I don’t remember if it also said Welcome, come on in,” or “Enter at Your Own Risk. I knocked timidly on the door. A smiling and seemingly friendly journalist opened the door. 1 swallowed. “Hi. I’d like to write for the paper. I’m a freshman, but 1 had some experience in journalism in high school.. “Come on in. I’m sure we’ve got a story you can work on,” he said, still smiling. Since that fateful day, I have been writing for the Clarion almost every week. But instead of hiding out in the boiler room, I now play the role of an editor and work in the celestial heights” of the fourth floor, right next to the dean’s office. Some things remain the same. I still have to muster up some courage when 1 interview people like the dean or the president, and I still rack my brains on Sunday afternoon to put words on paper for an article due that evening. But my responsibilities have changed since I was a reporter. Now I am the editor that writers come to for help, when I can offer it. I am the one writing notes, stopping people in the hall, or calling them on the phone, pleading with them to write stories for the paper. Doug Bar key