The Paper Cut is Sahuaro’s newspaper, the very one you’re reading this from. It was built and run by Ms. Lange for the last ten years before she left it in the hands of her trusted friend, Mrs. Gandee, for the rest of the 2025-2026 school year. But what comes after this? Although Mrs. Gandee has done a great job filling in for Ms. Lange’s classes, The Paper Cut will be getting a new teacher in charge. Upcoming seniors, Sarah Bol, Nya Brown, and Mackenzie Comfort, will be helping with the change, as Ms. Good steps in. Editor-In-Chief, Sarah Bol shares, “I’m really looking forward to making The Paper Cut a lot more structured next year. With Ms. Lange leaving in the middle of the year, it’s been really hard to get everyone back on the same page. Next year will be a lot different, but I plan on setting The Paper Cut up for success with whoever ends up taking my spot.”
Sahuaro’s yearbook and English teacher, Ms. Good, will be taking over The Paper Cut starting the 2026-2027 school year. She shares that some changes will be coming to the program, but it’s all in good measure. To take some stress off the reporters, students will be split into two publishing teams, not 4 and they will get two weeks on their articles, not one. While keeping up with the online format for the newspaper, Ms. Good wants to start a calendar handout for all the students and open up some designing opportunities for physical media. She also shared that we will be moving out of room 207 and moving into a classroom designated for journalism and the yearbook. While the editor count and the number of teams are the main changes, Ms. Good reminded us, “I feel like students should be able to write about whatever topics they’re enjoying…As long as it’s presented in a respectful way and unbiased way.” She wants to focus the newspaper on Arizona and Tucson issues that are impacting us as residents here. Keeping up with our loved cougar tales and the Sahuaro community, “I feel like that’s really important, for us to get to know new people on campus and get to better know people we do know, but learn about them as a whole person,” she went on to say how we should get to know the people we spend 5 days a week with and maybe make new connections.
The Paper Cut is a very hands-on community, and we are students who take an interest in writing and sharing news with our classmates. Ms. Good’s message for any newcomers is, “It’s a very welcoming and all-inclusive environment, and whatever they’re interested in, there’s a space for them.” She wants to create an environment where students are free to write about any topic they’re passionate about, including a fashion blog she hopes to start up next year. “We could have like a Sahuaro look of the week, we can do really fun things that are related to people’s specific interests.” She hopes students continue to read The Paper Cut, that we get more readers, and that we continue to engage through polls and more new things to come.
