James Witherow is the new Editor of the Perspective for the 2008-09 school year as he takes over for Summer Gemmati who graduated.

“Being named editor is a huge honor to me! I’ve put a lot of hard work into the paper over the past year and a half and really enjoy what I do,” Witherow said. “It’s going to be hard in the footsteps of two great editors before me, Lisa [Cialfi] and Summer, but I think I can bring some new things to the table and hopefully make the paper even better.

Witherow follows Lisa Cialfi and Summer Gematti who has run the paper the past two school years respectively. He plans on building off the success the paper has had the past two years.

“Over the past 2 years we’ve really become a staple in the Medaille community and I look to keep that going all through next year. There might be some minor tweaks here and there but overall I want to just keep the Perspective going on the track it’s on now, and that is to keep the students informed and to be kind of a second voice of the students to the faculty and staff,” Witherow said.

Witherow calls his a sports freak but he doesn’t plan on letting his love for sport, get in the way of his responsibilities as editor.

“Sports will stay about the same as it is now. The athletic department and teams are getting better and we recognize this, however, we don’t have as many teams as a lot of schools and it’s not as big here as in other schools so for right now it will stay about four pages. However, as we do with playoffs and NCAA tournaments, we will continue to send out sports extra pages via e-mail to the students and faculty as well as keep everyone up to date on the latest on conference championships, ECAC tournaments and NCAA tournaments.”

Next year should be a good year for the newspaper as it continues to go in the same direction as it has the past two years.