Dear readers of the Irish Rover,

By now you will have noticed that the Rover is sporting a new design layout.

The man behind the curtain responsible for these design and graphic changes is Adam Conrath, a freshman whom we are now privileged to have contributing to the Rover as a member of the layout and production team. Adam brings a considerable amount of expertise and experience to newspaper layout design and style, and together he and I have agreed upon a new look that better comports with contemporary newspaper design standards that are at once informative, straightforward and aesthetically attractive.

We are pleased to take this step in light of the Rover’s mission to be an informative, reader-friendly source of top-quality news, journalism and opinion writing from and about the University of Notre Dame.

As always, I invite and welcome reader feedback and commentary on our content and work, and in particular on our stylistic changes in this issue.

In Notre Dame,

Michael Bradley,

Editor-in-Chief