Staff

• Kevin Nguyen
  Editor
  Kevin Nguyen is a double major in English and international political economy, but his only marketable skill is an above-average knowledge of European geography. He has been useless since the introduction of the atlas in 1477.
• Nick Martens
  Editor
  Nick Martens is an English major, studying the famously lucrative field of Writing, Rhetoric and Culture. Psychiatrists describe his obsessions with the music industry, Malcolm Gladwell, and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris as “troubling.” His book, Interviews on the Unconscious Decision-Making of Music Pirates, has been rejected by several publishers.
• Jordan Barber
  Writer
  Jordan Barber is proud that the internet allows him to criticize, admonish, and irritate people from his own living room. And though this immense power only comes to the few, he promises to wield his hammer of judgment with a standoffish, thoughtful outlook.
• Caitlin Boersma
  Writer
  Caitlin Boersma is studying political science and English, but spends most of her time analyzing pop culture. Her premise for a new reality TV show, Killing Andy Milonakis, has yet to be picked up by VH1. She is notorious for spending a week’s wages on a ticket to see Morrissey live.
• Jeff Merrion
  Writer
  While he excels in most other areas, Jeff Merrion’s spatial logic falls within the lower third percentile of United States citizens. He is a Religious Studies major and, as such, has a long life of administrative assistantship awaiting him. To potential employers: Jeff makes a mean cup of coffee.

Contributing Writers

• Jack Eichorst
  Jack Eichorst is currently a student of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is actively involved in student government, and is always searching for any other opportunities to be labeled as “ineffective” and “self-aggrandizing.” Jack is looking forward to attending law school in the near future, where he can become an outstanding member of society’s most detested profession. In his free time, he is mostly ineffective and self-aggrandizing.
• Alexa Fritzsche
  Alexa Fritzsche can often be found with her head buried in a biology textbook or a Times crossword.
• Drew Gemmer
  Drew Gemmer is a psychology graduate from the University of Puget Sound. He resides in the rose-colored city of Portland, Oregon, where he spends time serving food to rich people and acting as an assistant editor of The St. Johns Sentinel.
• Brandon Lueken
  Brandon Lueken is a graduate from the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. He has done many things, including editing his college newspaper, writing and directing a short play, angering large groups of people en masse, and acting as both the good and the bad shoulder angel. One day, Brandon hopes to give people their dreams, but whether this is literal or figurative, no one knows.

• Andrew McGill
  Andrew McGill is a journalism student at Penn State. On the job, he’s interviewed accused murderers about their shoe preferences and published the phrase “a pilferer’s tickle.” Google it!
• Locke McKenzie
  Locke McKenzie is an English graduate from the University of Puget Sound. Currently, he is on a Fulbright scholarship in Hamburg, Germany, where he works as an English teaching assistant at a local school. In his free time, Locke continues to push forward with his pursuit of a penniless writing career.
• Dan Minch
  Dan Minch reinforces his existence as a Theology and Classical Studies major at Villanova University with an epic addiction to Fair Trade coffee. His thinking is split between dead languages and bits of Thai picked up from being the only white person at an Asian restaurant. He hopes to one day be paid to drink coffee and read the Bible.

• Alice Stanley
  Alice Stanley is an English major and a theatre minor at Principia College in the bustling metropolis of Elsah, Illinois. She digs improv comedy and is strangely unbeatable at Pac-Man.
• Lucinda Stroud
  Lucinda Stroud is a creative writing major and holds the firm belief that it is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.