Behind the scenes

With a staff that changes every year, few things in The Cavalier Daily's operations are constant. To maintain some form of continuity from year to year, The Cavalier Daily operates on the basis of a policy guide and its constitution. Not all policies make sense forever, though, so The Cavalier Daily's staff recently completed its annual update to each of these documents.
In last week's Constitutionals meeting, the entire staff — at least, all of the staff members who didn't have a legitimate excuse to not be present — gathered to amend our organization's constitution. In the meeting, the staff altered a few positions and sections of the staff, including the online department, the business staff and the copy editing staff. Normal readers should not have any reason to notice any difference in the newspaper and website being produced for them daily — updates to the constitution reflect basic institutional changes that often have already been informally implemented for several months or years.
Our policy guide, meanwhile, contains procedures that affect readers more directly. To see updates relating to how letters to the editors are processed, policies on gathering quotes by e-mail versus telephone and other topics, check out the updated version policy guide on our website at your convenience, and don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions.