Don't call her chief!
West Hempstead student named editor of school paper
Okay. You can call her chief, but please, no references to “Great Caesar’s Ghost!”
Melissa Bykofsky, a senior at Binghamton University, has been elected Editor-in-Chief of Pipe Dream, the university’s student-run newspaper, and the free word on campus since 1946.
Until recently, Bykofsky served as news editor for Pipe Dream, and is a member of the paper’s executive board. Having overcome the early childhood onset of lactose intolerance, and while continuing to struggle with an unfounded fear of butterflies as “crickets with wings,” Bykofsky nonetheless thrived in the world of print media, first finding comfort amidst the copy as Editor-in-Chief of Rampage, the official newspaper of West Hempstead High School, from whence Melissa graduated in 2007, and then, following her nose for news to Binghamton in New York’s Southern Tier.
“It’s been difficult,” said Melissa’s dad, Seth Bykofsky. “We have to begin every conversation with, ‘Off the record.’”
The 2007 recipient of the New York Press Association’s First Amendment Essay Award, Melissa joined Pipe Dream as a writer during her freshman year, learning the ropes and honing her skills as a news and features reporter. For two summers, she interned with the Long Island Herald Newspapers (Richner Publications), and will intern this summer for Newsday’s ExploreLI.
Melissa, a major in English Literature with a concentration in Rhetoric, was recently inducted into The Phi Beta Kappa Society, and will earn her Bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University in May, 2011.
