Dear Readers:

If someone were to peer into my room at this ridiculous hour (virtually my 21st straight sitting in this chair in front of this computer), it would first of all weird me out, since I live on the third floor and I’m sitting here in my bathrobe. But, then it would most likely scare that person, because the sight of this muck hole I’m sitting in right now is certainly not what one would expect from a lady.

Clothes, shoes, plates, bags, books all over the floor; my bed covered in more clothes, NUcomment rough drafts, notepads, and a stack of jeans that I have been moving from my desk chair to my bed and bed to my desk chair every day for the past week; and let’s not even go to the desk—gross. How I have room for this keyboard amongst the dirt is really quite amazing.

There are a number of theories as to why my room looks like a war zone. One, as my mom would argue, is that I’ve always been a mess and have never known how to keep a clean room. Another is that I’ve been slaving away at NUcomment for the past five days and haven’t had the chance to clean it. And finally, since we communicated last, I’ve officially graduated college and have had little semblance of reality, while pretty much defining the word, “waste.” This, therefore, has manifested itself in me being a complete mess. But at the same time, every day involves excessive fun. Life is damn good.

And speaking of excessive fun, did you see the chickens running around campus? Bar night, chickens ... does NUcomment know how to have a good time or what? I mean, that’s what it’s really all about at this point. It’s time to turn it up a notch. It’s time to push the limits. It’s time to run around in chicken costumes to get people to read your magazine.

So, now that official NUcomment chicken mascot has reeled you in to the Comment, let’s talk about the magazine. In this issue:

We’ve got some new stuff for you this time around. First, we’ve started a freshman column section, which consists of two columns, one representing some aspect of freshmen life up North and one for down South—this time it’s Bobb and Willard. We hope that more freshmen will start to read NUcomment, pass along the word, and maybe even get involved.

Also new is the sports column, which was supposed to debut last issue, but due to a couple issues with the columnist, it didn’t happen. It was mostly due to this severe condition that involves laziness.

You’re also getting some of the good stuff you’ve come back for, like sex, sex, and more sex. In this issue NUcomment talks toys—the columnists give you their very, very personal opinion on various prop possibilities. There’s some more ingenious blather spewing from Slade Sohmer. This time he’s talkin’ TiVo. Stookey is back with another article—this time on his experience in David Protess’ class working to get Aaron Patterson off death row. Ryan Scammell also brings his musical expertise back to the table to talk Zwan. And Srikanth, your favorite chemical engineer and mine, takes us into the life of the ASG Election Commission.

So, without further ado, I give you NUcomment Issue no. 10. Read it up, love it. Tell everyone you know all about it—friends and strangers alike.

Sincerely,

Sandra Keats
Editor-in-Chief