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Editor’s Note

The struggling economy and lack of available advertising dollars has threatened the life of us here in the news industry, and none more than the Heckler media empire, which has never turned a profit in our entire six-year existence. In an effort to continue life and not face a hostile takeover from whatever media (robber) baron will own The Hoya in a few months, we are testing some changes in this issue. Gone is the hard-hitting investigative reporting you have come to expect from the Heckler and can only find here; it has been replaced by short news briefs written by homeless men living on Wisconsin Ave and sourced solely on hearsay. Gone too is the letters section; we can no longer afford to keep our free Yahoo!-based e-mail account. You will also notice we have done away with Heckler Video for this issue; the cost of hiring Dreamworks to produce these things has just gotten too high.

But we haven’t gotten rid of the fluff pieces, the inconsequential soft-journalism and features that newspaper readers still actually read and e-mail to their mothers. We have even added a section of interviews with Georgetown students just like you, and we’ve tacked on some of those Drudge sirens people seem like so much.

Eat this shit up, you greedy, brainless idiots.