Do we have to leave?

Our Chips Quinn orientation's end is near. The more time I spend with my fellow Scholars and CQ speakers, the more I don't want to leave. It has been a pleasure listening to many seasoned journalists share their wisdom with us as we prepare to enter newsrooms across the United States. It also has been refreshing to meet 15 other journalism peers and share our stories, lives, perspectives and especially humor with each other. Maybe we should just stay here and start our own newsroom! But we are needed elsewhere, as the speakers and workers advocating Chips Quinn's interest in newsroom diversity have said.

-- Benny Polacca, Arizona State University, The Bulletin, Bend