Staff

As the editor of The Spectator and a 5th year student I am the “Old Boss Lady”. This has its perks as I can pull rank in heated discussions, but who really likes being made to feel like the old fogy in the room (even if only by a few months)? My staff keeps me young and in touch with campus life, and in return I entertain them with the latest tale of the craziness that is my life.  I love animals, though currently I only have two cats. This combined with my hermit-like tendencies makes me afraid of becoming the crazy cat lady. I like to toss in a few nights at the bar or random road trips every so often to delay that inevitable label.  When I’m not a work I’m either curled up with a book or up to miscellaneous adventures that I can’t say the details of (you never know who reads these things).  If you ever need a favor I’m easily bribable with caffeine and dark chocolate.

Lizzie  Locker

Though my job title may sound simple, the niche I fill here at the Spectator is a necessary one: temper the cynicism of my hard-boiled coworkers with sunshine and sparkles. I am the eager beaver who lives to relieve the ever-growing epidemic of Super Spectator Stress with hugs, backrubs and really bad jokes. And let me tell you – with the levels of pre-print-edition pressure that build up around here, that is a huge undertaking. I am our editor Juna’uh’s spunky sidekick (though I think I might actually be her soul-sucked slave. I’ll have to check up on that…) I also keep our editing team on its toes with my overly-creative articles. I suppose that’s just a side effect of my overactive imagination. The fact that I am a creative writing major might have something to do with that… oops.

Jessica Benigno
Online Editor

This year, becoming Online Editor as well as keeping up with the pressures of being a Culinary student has become a more daunting task than I thought it would be. Between getting all of the right stuff online, to fixing the stuff online, re-organizing  the desktop of DOOM (thanks for leaving me with that Casey) and keeping up with my occasional article, it seems like I never leave the office. The small amount of time that I’m not in the office, in class, or asleep is usually spent in the dorm messing around on the computer and playing Spore, at the pool, sharpening my culinary skills or occasionally out and about with my buds. If you see our Copy Editor, Rachel, around campus I’m usually not far behind.

Rachel Mordecki
Copy Editor

This year, I come to the Spectator as copy editor, and I am attempting to fill the shoes left behind by Alison Sliwa, who was a scary Grammar Nazi. I’m a little too nice, surprisingly, but that’s soon to change. (Fear me newbies, fear me!) When I’m not confined to the Spectator office, I can be seen dashing around campus trying to get to my next class or relaxing in Grossnickle’s lobby with some friends. I remain an English major with a creative writing emphasis, though I’ve decided to take on a Communications minor. I am still from a small town that nobody’s heard of on the Coast, and I still walk around campus with my iPod on full blast.

Sarah Wilson
Editorial Assistant

Hello there, I’m Sarah Wilson. As former editor-in-chief and current over-stressed senior, I’m playing the “try to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life” game (whilst editing copy and making sure Juna’uh doesn’t break anybody). After spending over three years in newspapers, I’ve learned that I’d rather have an angry monkey nest on my head than work in the daily newspaper business. I’ve considered trying to work for a magazine, a church, a school or a summer camp but it’s all going to boil down to who will actually pay me money to do something so I can buy books and cute shoes and pay off my student loans (most likely in that order – college has taught me nothing). I’m tempted to run away and hide on some primitive island where I’ll string bark beads together to trade for food, swim all the time and call myself Uk-oo-ba. It’d at least save me from the damn debt collectors… but they do have their ways – I wonder if they’d take bark beads.

As graphics coordinator, I’m responsible for our weekly strip ‘W Days’ and putting together various pictoral odds and ends for both online and print. And being the sole art major of the bunch, I also tend to be occupied with matching colors and shiny art supplies when I’m not being a hermit in the back room coloring my comic for the week. Outside of the Spectator office, I’m a residential honors art student with aspirations to be a graphic novel artist. If you’re lucky, you can spot me sprinting between floors of the Fine Arts building, lurking in Grossnickle, or in Stark. Although I have lots of responsibilities and homework, I do enjoy my free time, and I generally spend it reading comics, playing video games, or napping.

Andy Currie

My name is Andy Currie, your current managing editor. I’m a senior English major, meaning anytime you see me not reading and/or writing, I assure you, I’m thinking about reading and/or writing. Being a senior majoring in English who doesn’t intend to teach has given me plenty of opportunities to freak out and, as our lifestyles editor Josh Lee would say, curl up into a gibbering ball of madness and despair. I’ve got no clue as to what my path in life is right now, but I can at least take comfort in the fact that I haven’t looked like an idiot while working in any of the myriad of jobs and clubs I seem to fall into. Well, at least not too big of an idiot. If you run into me and find it hard to start a conversation, try guessing my full name. That mystery has kept more than a few people up at night.

Photos by Sarah Wilson