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Designing History
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America has voted and Barack Obama is the new president of the United States of America. Students storm the libraries, cheers erupt in Collegetown Bars, and the staff of the Cornell Daily Sun frolick, drunk, through the Commons into a party held by the Ithaca Workers Council.
The staff heads back to 139 W. State street and up to the board room to hear the election speech. With Obama’s word of hope and message of change, we file downstairs to finish up the paper. Time to design the front page.
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Designing Breaking News
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Assistant Design Editor Munier Salem ’10 writes about what it was like to design at The Sun the night Schedulizer went down.:
Breaking news on State Street! It’s just after 8:00 p.m. down here at The Sun and we’re rearranging the front page to make way for the PeopleSoft debacle.
In a nutshell, the new software Cornell uses to enroll students is slow, buggy and frustrating to work with. Schedulizer.com, a website that aggregates Cornell course roster information and uses it to create optimized schedules for students, has had enough with the new PeopleSoft, and it has shut down the website indefinitely for its Cornell clients.
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Turn and face the Sun, cha-cha-changes!
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Well folks, we here in the design department are working furiously to bring you fresh new layouts for the fall semester (I always thought fall fashion trumped spring’s anyway!). Carol is in the home stretch, working on a brand new Ecplise layout on thick, white magazine-style paper. We’re also pumping out a tweaked sports section, featuring a new “Inside Sports” bar, a new “Inside This Issue” bar for the front page and fresh infographic styles and ideas. The entire department has been revving up with assistants and night editors to get ready for the first intense months of school, where we’ll be training new staff and balancing new coursework.