BOO! Welcome to the third annual Halloween Issue of The Stute! What started in 2019 has now become a very fun Stute tradition in which we take off our journalistic hats for a moment and operate more so as a magazine: a more stylized front page design, photo spreads, spooky stories, and more can be found within the next few pages.
We are still a newspaper, but for a few “special editions” each year we morph into something a little more creative. Some other special editions include what we call The Orientation Issue, published during first-year orientation, The Stupe, published on April Fools’ Day, and The Grad Issue, published and distributed at commencement for the graduating class. As new faces join The Stute we have come up with other special editions, such as this very one you’re reading, as well as holiday season and Earth Day features I could see becoming special editions.
We get to do this because while we are journalists, we are student journalists, who like to have fun every once in a while. This is an opportunity to be more creative than our traditional newspaper might call for and get students involved in new ways. There is always a plethora of autumn and Halloween-themed events on campus, enough to make this special issue, and enough to make it more visual with images than text heavy as a regular newspaper might be.
Within these pages you will find a few news articles reporting on Halloween events that have happened on campus, decorated dorm doors by first-years, some fun science articles, creative stories about the haunted University Center, the mystery of the missing Stute newspaper racks, blood-sucking lanternflies, a cupcake recipe, movie reviews, a spooky crossword, and more.
Happy Halloween, and happy reading!
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