The Flor-Ala editorial board is happy to welcome a new student newspaper to campus: The Snore.

The satirical publication recently released its first print edition on campus, though the anonymous writers and editors have been regularly posting on various social media since last spring.

We applaud the staff of The Snore for taking advantage of their First Amendment rights. We also commend the paper for its often-humorous material.

In fact, we should thank the writers and editors for taking a little of the pressure off of The Flor-Ala staff to be funny. It gives us more room to do the best job we can to professionally report UNA news.

The Flor-Ala editorial board believes that a little competition is healthy, and UNA should have as many student newspapers that the student body desires.

We also appreciate and understand satire. As the content of The Snore is largely generated by satirizing the content of The Flor-Ala, we feel an almost fraternal connection between us.

It’s obvious that one of the main purposes of The Snore is to be funny, but the criticism isn’t lost on us. We appreciate it and see it as an opportunity to improve.

Of course, it’s only fair that we offer a little criticism in return for the healthy dose that The Snore gives The Flor-Ala.

We have to show our faces after every blunder we make and success we have, so we encourage the writers of The Snore to stand by what they say and be more open about who they are.

The Flor-Ala editorial board asks The Snore to learn from the great satirical comics of the day, such as Stephen Colbert. We do appreciate the disclaimer stating that the quotations in The Snore are not true, but the best satirists find humor in what actually occurred.

So, quote us directly. We can tell from The Snore’s first issue that the writers have the ability to find the humor in what The Flor-Ala actually says. And we mess up enough that The Snore shouldn’t have to invent content.

We’re looking forward to the next issue.

The opinions expressed are the collective ideas of The Flor-Ala editorial board.