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I started to enjoy what I had been looking forward to since freshman year: the community of this paper.

Media Credit: Arielle Bader | Assistant Photo Editor Each year, graduating editors are given 30 final column inches – “30” was historically used to signify the end of a story – to reflect on their time at The Hatchet, published in the final issues of the year. If there is one thing I learned from The GW Hatchet, it is to love the art of storytelling in journalism. From my first published assignment as a freshman covering a Chinese Culture Fest hosted by a student organization to my first experience covering protests, I learned how to navigate the complexities of capturing a moment and...

Media Credit: Courtesy of Lia DeGroot Lia DeGroot was elected Saturday to serve as The Hatchet's editor in chief for Volume 118. The Hatchet’s staff members elected junior Lia DeGroot as the next editor in chief Saturday night. DeGroot – a journalism major from Longmont, Colorado – will lead the paper’s 118th volume, which starts in May. She currently leads coverage of health and sciences, which has included reporting on expertsleadingCOVID-19 research, disparities in the distribution of coronavirus cases and vaccines and the mental healthimpact of the pandemic. The previous year, sh...