Dear GUCians,

Imagine entering a new university and being a student among its first classes. What would you want? How would you enrich your college experience? There may be as many answers to this question as the number of students in that case. Fortunately, a group of students realized that they needed a place to speak their minds and to communicate with all the other students on campus. They needed an ECHO. And, thank God they did.

The first issue of this magazine was 10 pages long. This might sound trivial to people who have never worked on similar projects, but it takes a lot of thought and concentration to come up with a magazine from scratch. The first issue paved the way for a bigger second one and a third.. The tenth issue is 100 hundred pages long.

The founders of Echo might not have met all members of its current staff now, but we all have one thing in common: the dedication and the interest to make this fine publication a venue for all students to communicate; a podium for them to share their opinions on a wide spectrum of topics ranging from happenings in their own faculties to local and international phenomena; an opportunity to publish their art; and a way to hold on to memories.

We are a diverse group of students from different majors and with different interests. We meet up to think about the things students like us want to know about. You might see us running around in events interviewing people, or you might read our names in the magazines and then find out we are actually with you in your tutorial (yes, it did happen). You can definitely join us by sending us your contributions and your opinions.

An echo would not exist without a voice. Yet again, a voice, without an echo, would not be heard ;-)