The staff, editors, and Mr. Kulenych, the advisor, of The Advocate are looking forward to providing the Jonathan Law community with reliable, trustworthy, and accurate news, as well as lively and significant opinions, features, and columns.

We will publish seven monthly issues of the paper, and in May, we will publish Blink, Law’s literary magazine.In the spring, The Advocate staff will publish a senior supplement inside the June issue. The supplement, as per tradition, will include information about the senior class’ post-graduate plans along with the graduates’ most memorable high school moments and bequeathments.

After 49 years of upholding the highest standards of effective reporting and ethical journalism, The Advocate staff will continue to strive to provide the same excellent quality of school, local and national news. We will try to meet your expectations for this paper, as they should be high. We will aspire to include all viewpoints to ensure that our entire student body is represented in our publication.

We will also do our best to ensure that our streak of local annd national recognition continues. Over the years,The Advocate has won many awards from the New England Scholastic Press Association including its Highest Achievement Award five years in a row. We have also been fortunate to win First Place With Special Merit awards in the American Scholastic Press Association ‘s annual newspaper contest five years running.

The Advocate’s staff editorials, much like the one you are reading, will represent the opinion of our staff, and our commentaries will provide often unconventional perspectives on current controversial issues. Our articles will be fair and balanced and our staff is devoted to maintain objectivity, integrity and truth.

We indeed strive to include a diverse selection of opinions that so fittingly reflect the variety of perspectives at Jonathan Law. Without the desire to satisfy and inform our readers, our passion for creating a great newspaper would be short-lived.

We not only accept, but encourage, feedback by inviting all readers of The Advocate – students, teachers, faculty members, parents or community leaders – to contribute letters to the editor for publication. Letters should be submitted to either the main office at Jonathan Law or to Mr. Kulenych in Room 211.

We sincerely hope that our practice will live up to our theory — that The Advocate will competently serve as a forum for student opinion. As former editorial editor, Justin Margeson, once said, "The Advocate is not a high school newspaper, but rather a newspaper based in a high school."