As you may or may not know, last week was the week of Eboard elections on The Stute. I didn’t bother mentioning it at the time, honestly because it is a touch overused for the topic of the first editorial of the new Editor in Chief.
It is a young Eboard. I am the only one who has reached the age of 20. It is very cool to see so many younger students interested in The Stute, and I really, really look forward to hearing about all of their successes after I hand the torch to the next Editor in Chief.
But I digress. Even though it is only a week in, many things have happened: we finally got rid of a wall of newspapers that was closing in on us every meeting, we made a bunch of goals for this year, we started planning the newspaper for next year, we cleaned the office, rearranged the office, and even rediscovered our coffee machine in the office (quite a feat).
As I dredged through the clutter of The Stute, I stumbled across a number of things, relics of times long gone. I found photos of Jacobus after some monstrous fire, an archaic film scanning device, an inflatable pool, articles of other newspapers detailing a fraternity I have never heard of being infested with rats, and even The Stute¸ Volume IV.
Now, think about that for a second. Volume IV. When I help out everyone on Thursdays as we create the paper, I don’t really think about The Stute all that much, I am far more concerned with the deadline. But, gosh. Do you even realize how old this organization is? 1904 was the year of the first issue. If you took the current Eboard, and added all of our ages together, we’d still be short a good decade or two.
Volume IV.
They were talking of the start of a “dramatic society on campus” in that volume. I wonder to what they were referring.
It baffles me to think that I and the current Eboard are just links in this age-old chain. While it makes me realize that we are quite the small link in quite the large chain, I also realize that without this small link, there won’t be a link to follow.
In fact, that same ideology applies to every Eboard that The Stute has ever had. Maybe I’m not wholly ready to forge that link in the chain yet, but I am determined to do my best regardless.
Needless to say, our “Spring Cleaning” went over quite well in the office, and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone. You never know what little pieces of history you might find in your drawer or closet, or student organization office.
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