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Ten years ago I was swept away by the current.
Make that _The Current_.
Time’s swift flow always catches me off-guard. Was it _that_ long ago that I was using a wax machine to paste strips of paper onto pageboards? “Coffee and donuts with your paper” at the MSC? Zip disks? Blanche? The bowling nights? The Ecchers? Coming in second at College Bowl? Was it all _that_ long ago?
Well, yes. It really has been a decade since perhaps the pivotal year of my life. During the 2000-01 academic year, I was editor-in-chief of UMSL’s student newspaper, _The Current_.
I remember a time in my office at _The Current_ when I was looking at the “editor’s mug.” It was a metal drinking vessel inscribed with the names of editors of _The Current_, going back to Michelle McMurray, who had been editor exactly 10 years before me. I thought at the time, “Wow. Ten years. That’s really long.”
And now it’s been ten years for me!
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