I'd like to officially welcome you to The Daily Pennsylvanian's newest blog, The Spin. This blog will feature a slew of online columnists whose exclusive focus will be posting interesting and opinionated content that affects the Penn community. There will be some familiar faces — Stephen Morse, Liz Hoffman, Eric Obenzinger — but also many new faces you will soon get to know.

As an opinion blog, we won't shy away from telling you the truth as we see it. You'll get to hear the candid truth (or at least our Spin), as often as we can put up new posts. We hope that by joining the blogosphere, The Daily Pennsylvanian — which is now entering its 122nd year — will remain ahead of the curve in delivering the news. And with easy-to-post, easy-to-read comments on each blog, we hope you become a part of the conversation. Online columnists can and will comment on the blog as well, so the conversation doesn't end once a post has been made; in fact, we hope the conversation will never end.

It's all a part of trying to make this newspaper into a conversation between our staff and each member of the Penn community. Because after all, it's all about you — the reader.

And if you don't like how things are going, (or hey, even if you like how things are going) be sure to let us know. Deputy Editorial Page Editor Eric Obenzinger will be running The Spin — so be sure to let him know what you think.

Stay tuned, there are great things to come!