Dear Reader:

Through many gut-wrenching, hair-pulling, nail-and-tongue-biting, and head-spinning brainstorming sessions—and some not quite so dramatic—we've finally delivered this somewhat wobbly-legged new Web collection of work we call COMMotion.

This e-zine began as a hands-on experiment given to twenty-some inexperienced students at Salem College, in Dr. Kaitlin Hanger's public relations class, in the Spring of 2002. Why COMMotion? COMM for...well...obvious reasons, and motion because it represents who we are—movers and shakers, achievers seeking to reach those sometimes yet-to-be-defined goals, with places to go, people to know.