Photo essay: Wednesday nights with The Weekly Wronger

by JOSEPHINE GOOD

Life Editor

“We’re The Weekly Ringer and we’re trying our best” is the newspaper’s lesser-known, unofficial motto. With a staff of 11 editors, more than 30 writers and photographers and eight pages to fill each week, we often find ourselves questioning our sanity during Wednesday night layout sessions.

Lovingly known as “the mansion,” the building on the corner of William Street and College Avenue is the home of the communication and digital studies department and, more recently, The Weekly Ringer. Each Wednesday night, this is where the fun—or agony, depending on the week—happens. Editors spend anywhere from four to 14 hours editing articles, fighting with InDesign to format them in the print edition and occasionally wishing for death.

From the jacuzzi tub to the Wall of Wonders, the mansion’s many quirks give us editors the pizzazz we need to keep going.

The “Is This Fugly?” plate, carefully curated by Copy Editor Grace Schumacher, hangs proudly over the clock in the editing room. A classy touch to the mansion, the “Is This Fugly?” plate gives a little bit of spice to our editing process. The phrase was coined by News Editor Callie Harkins, who always asks other editors, “Is this fugly?” about her layout pages. Bring your own watch to layout, though, because the time is always fugly in the mansion. | Josephine Good, The Weekly Ringer

This story is a part of our April Fool’s edition and is intended to be satirical in nature. All information or quotations are made up and not to be taken seriously.