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Émile Borel and You

Okay, Brewster. You win. You want us to say it? Fine, we’ll say it: We need you.

By our estimation, we assigned 350 articles this year, give or take a few hundred. We received, at last count, two. Most of the paper you see below was created by chaining a roomful of monkeys to typewriters and having them bang away indiscriminately at the keys.

We want articles. We need articles, specifically articles that have made it into corporeal form. We have a dream of printing more than two issues each year, and in our dream, 75% of the paper is written by more than one person (or more than one roomful of monkeys, we suppose). In our dream, we pull late afternoons in the computer lab, furiously meeting deadlines while knocking back coffee and candy cigarettes. In our dream, we actually leave out submitted articles for lack of space, rather than chasing down groups of random students to harangue them with demands for movie reviews and editorials.

This is your paper. It can be whatever you want it to be. It can report on our lacrosse season, reflect on the debate over funding a Student Resource Officer, review our production of Beauty and the Beast, rant against the weather’s refusal to stop raining, regale its readers with humorous anecdotes, remind us what events are upcoming, and many of the other “r” verbs that you might imagine.

We welcome creative pieces, essays, reports, reviews – basically any bit of student writing. (We would open up the submissions to faculty and staff, but the first few columns of Mrs. Skrobalak Tells It Like It Is met with disastrous focus group results.) We welcome student artwork, photography, poetry, graffiti – basically any creative outpouring that could be included here as a preview of the wonderful Ursus and Creative Expression collections that are printed at the end of the year. We also welcome students who are interested not in creative photography but in documenting the goings-on in the school. We might be able to find a reporter’s fedora and a press pass for you to wear.

Here’s the long and short of it: Bear Facts can become a vibrant part of the school, or it can continue to limp along, muscles atrophying as interest wanes. It’s entirely up to you.

-The Bear Facts Staff