The newspaper racks that once held IVC's copies of student newspaper The Voice and Saddleback's The Lariat continue to be taken over by a free Catholic newspaper which is now delivered regularly to campus it seems. It's a free public service, apparently at our public education institution: delivery of religious material seemingly with the imprimatur of the college itself. Gloria Patri, et filio, et spiritui sancto…
Early last week, working late evening, Rebel Girl had a visitor to her office. She was startled as she wheeled around at her desk (for reasons she won't divulge here), wishing she had shut her door, not kept it open. (For the record, denizens of the LA building have long complained that the dominant office layout with the majority of faculty desks facing away from the office doors present a clear safety hazard. For the record. If anyone is tracking faculty and staff concerns about campus safety.)
But Rebel Girl had nothing to fear. Whew. It was a student interested in the history of the school newspaper and curious about whether or not it could be revived. He had been directed in her direction. He carried a little notebook, like reporters do. He had lots of questions. Rebel Girl gave him lots of answers. He was especially curious about the paper's demise. She showed him some of the newspaper archive that she still keeps.
She saw the student throughout the week: walking the campus, in BSTIC, in the LA building waiting to talk to the dean. He seemed engaged by the enterprise, gathering support, cheerful, optimistic. Later in the week he wrote to her telling her he had run into the college president and took the opportunity to ask him some questions, including one about the demise of The Voice. The college president gave him a different answer from Rebel Girl's. Tee hee.
On Thursday night, before she left, Rebel Girl found this flier outside her office door. Check it out. Let's do what we can to help him and ourselves.
