On Friday, April 3, a body was recovered from the Hudson River. FDNY maneuvered the extraction, and the Hoboken homicide unit began its investigation at the pier. The recovery was unknowingly an anniversary for the death and rebirth of the victim, a Snevets student who contributed to the campus newspaper as Editor-in-Chief, Giya Dressingonit. This was not the Dressingonit that had led countless meetings, events, and served as the friendly face of The St*te for two semesters. Initially presumed missing, Dressingonit was confirmed to have drowned with suspected foul play at hand, leaving friends, family, and club members to question who or what they’ve been trusting as their President.
There’s the dead Dressingonit and the living… or at least the “walking” until we know if this thing is alive. The morning following the investigation began, the living Dressingonit had disappeared. A covert operation tracing back to their last coffee order, last Pierce dining hall sighting, and their last text message led me to a trail of nuts and bolts in the MakerSpace and only more questions. The remnants of what had been operating as our Editor-in-Chief ever since last April lay as metallic pieces in a dark and scattered Ph.D. office that housed power tools and bare wiring. Competent hands intentionally dismantled the shell of a machine that now stared idly at the four corners of the office, smoothing fingerprints and biomarkers that once passed as human life. A single SD chip reader remained empty — the “life source”. Mind racing as memories and interactions with this machine I’ve come to know as our EIC flashed before my eyes, I turned to get out of the office, and the words “I will be back” loomed back at me from the flickering computer screens.
-Managing
