This weekend the Associated College Press announced that Student Life won two Pacemaker awards for the 2010-11 academic year. The Pacemaker award, generally considered the highest recognition in student print media, is awarded in five different categories every year.

Student Life will be scaling back to two print issues per week for the 2011-12 year to help balance the organization’s budget. Student Life has published three print editions per week since 2003. Prior to 2003, the newspaper printed on a semiweekly schedule.

Junior Michelle Merlin was named editor in chief of Student Life for the 2011-2012 academic year. Her position was announced Saturday night at the annual banquet of Washington University Student Media Inc., whose board of directors oversees Student Life.

The kind of people who read an article and are moved to respond in an online comment probably feel more strongly about the issue addressed in the article than those who read it and move on, or than those who don’t read it at all. Video interviews have a higher chance of capturing the latter two types.

Kat Berger, president of the College Democrats, talked with Senior News Editor Kat Zhao Tuesday night while chalking up sidewalks around Wash. U. with health-care. She spoke with Student Life about the group’s motivations for stepping into the national health-care debate.

Set some goals for yourself, and remember to keep everything in perspective.