Once Upon a Time at the South Belt Leader

Above is the old school South Belt Leader boards (one wall of many) where the paper would be typed by columns and cut into strips to produce the weekly gem. 

While I doubt anyone at the Leader misses those days too much, here's what a group of today's students discovered when they tried to recreate these days with a dark room, manual typewriters, proportion wheels, exacto knives and rubber cement.

"Students should be reminded that what they’re producing is an artifact. Even as papers move to online-only editions, . . . this emphasis on a finished product is invaluable. In some regards, the paradox of composing electronically and for the web is that the story, page, or newspaper never feels like it’s done. It feels infinitely revisable, making students’ successes, and their mistakes, seem ephemeral."