Chairman
Austin Chu G
Editor in Chief
Nick Bushak ’10
Business Manager
Mark Thompson ’11
Managing Editor
Steve Howland ’11
Executive Editor
Michael McGraw-Herdeg G
News Staff
News and Features Director:
Arkajit Dey ’11;
Editors:
John A. Hawkinson ’98,
Jeff Guo ’11,
Natasha Plotkin ’11;
Associate Editors:
Emily Prentice ’11,
Elijah Jordan Turner ’11,
Pearle Lipinski ’12,
Robert McQueen ’12;
Staff:
Vinayak Ranade G,
Daniela Cako ’09,
Omar Abudayyeh ’12,
Jingyun Fan ’12,
Ziwei Hao ’12,
Jessica Lin ’12,
Meredith Lis ’12,
Maggie Lloyd ’12,
Ana Lyons ’12,
Camille Z. McAvoy ’12,
Natasha Nath ’12,
Sandhya Rawal ’12,
Zeina Siam ’12,
Aditi Verma ’12,
Joy E. Lee ’13,
Meghan Nelson ’13,
Jessica J. Pourian ’13,
Divya Srinivasan ’13;
Meteorologists:
Cegeon Chan G,
Garrett P. Marino G,
Brian H. Tang G,
Allison A. Wing G,
Angela Zalucha G,
Elizabeth Maroon ’10,
Vince Agard ’11.
Production Staff
Associate Editors:
Divya Chhabra ’13,
Connor Kirschbaum ’13,
Aislyn Schalck ’13;
Staff:
Alexander W. Dehnert ’12,
Joanna Kao ’13.
Opinion Staff
Editors:
Joseph Maurer ’12,
Ethan Solomon ’12;
Staff:
Florence Gallez G,
Alejandro Rogers B. G,
Gary Shu G,
David Weinberg G,
Keith A. Yost G,
Josh Levinger ’07,
Daniel Yelin ’10,
Ryan Normandin ’13.
Sports Staff
Editor:
David Zhu ’12;
Staff:
Aaron Sampson ’10,
Michael Gerhardt ’12,
Nydia Ruleman ’12,
Russell Spivak ’13.
Arts Staff
Editor:
S. Balaji Mani ’10;
Associate Editors:
Maggie Liu ’12,
Samuel Markson ’12;
Staff:
Sudeep Agarwala G,
Bogdan Fedeles G,
Joyce Kwan ’10,
Joanne Y. Shih ’10,
Kevin Wang ’10,
Tracy Kambara ’11,
Sun K. Kim ’11,
Emily Nardoni ’13.
Photography Staff
Editors:
David M. Templeton ’08,
Andrea Robles ’10;
Associate Editors:
Vibin Kundukulam ’11,
Jessica Liu ’13,
Sam Range ’13;
Staff:
Vincent Auyeung G,
David Da He G,
Perry Hung G,
Sheng-Ying Aithne Pao G,
Arthur Petron G,
Melissa Renée Schumacher G,
Martin Segado G,
Noah Spies G,
John Z. Sun G,
Scott Johnston ’03,
Martha Angela Wilcox ’08,
Peter H. Rigano ’09,
Eric D. Schmiedl ’09,
Biyeun Buczyk ’10,
David Chen ’10,
Helen Hou ’10,
Monica Kahn ’10,
Diane Rak ’10,
Jongu Shin ’10,
Christian J. Ternus ’10,
Michael Yu ’10,
Dhaval Adjodah ’11,
Jasmine Florentine ’11,
Dan Kubaczyk ’11,
Michael Y. McCanna ’11,
Michael Meyer ’11,
Allison M. Alwan ’12,
Yuanyu Chen ’12,
Rachel Fong ’12,
Rui Luo ’12,
Andrew Shum ’12,
Meng Heng Touch ’12,
Jennifer L. Wong ’12,
Feng Wu ’12,
Arfa Aijazi ’13,
Cole Houston ’13,
Sunny X. Long ’13.
Campus Life Staff
Editor:
Michael T. Lin ’11;
Staff:
Roberto Perez-Franco G,
Christine Yu ’11;
Cartoonists:
Michael Ciuffo ’11,
Ben Peters ’11,
Michael Benitez ’12.
Business Staff
Advertising Manager:
Greg Steinbrecher ’12;
Operations Manager:
Sherry Yan ’11;
Staff:
Wendy Cheng ’13,
Moya Chin ’13,
Jennifer Fong ’13.
Technology Staff
Director:
Quentin Smith ’10.
Editors at Large
Contributing Editors:
Caroline Huang ’10,
Jessica Witchley ’10,
William Yee ’10,
Monica Gallegos ’11,
Robin L. Dahan ’12;
Senior Editors:
Brian Hemond G,
Charles Lin G,
Andrew T. Lukmann G,
Ramya Sankar G,
Satwiksai Seshasai G,
Shreyes Seshasai G,
Benjamin P. Gleitzman ’09,
Ricardo Ramirez ’09,
Nick Semenkovich ’09,
Angeline Wang ’09,
Praveen Rathinavelu ’10.
Advisory Board
Paul E. Schindler, Jr. ’74,
V. Michael Bove ’83,
Barry S. Surman ’84,
Robert E. Malchman ’85,
Deborah A. Levinson ’91,
Jonathan E. D. Richmond PhD ’91,
Karen Kaplan ’93,
Saul Blumenthal ’98,
Frank Dabek ’00,
Daniel Ryan Bersak ’02,
Eric J. Cholankeril ’02,
Jordan Rubin ’02,
Nathan Collins SM ’03,
Keith J. Winstein ’03,
Akshay R. Patil ’04,
Tiffany Dohzen ’06,
Beckett W. Sterner ’06,
Marissa Vogt ’06,
Zachary Ozer ’07,
Omari Stephens ’08,
Marie Y. Thibault ’08,
B. D. Colen.
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