So The Slant has gone through some changes. Everyone should take note of the new section, TFLVP (Texts From Last Vandy Party), and oh yeah, our pages look different and we’re inside of Versus.
All of Vanderbilt’s publications are funded by one organization: Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC), a non profit-organization designed to keep Vanderbilt University out of trouble for the ridiculous stories some publications (I won’t name any names) are apt to publish. VSC is funded primarily from the sales of ads in its newspapers. This year and last year ad revenues have been down, and thus everyone in all of the publications have been trying to work together to spend less dough.
It’s interesting that Versus is called such. When the scheme was first proposed that to save money The Slant would need to be inserted in another publication, our staff met the pitch with much hostility. Give up our sovereignty? Never! However, when push came to tackle we didn’t really have much choice. The situation that you see here could have easily become The Slant versus Versus. I don’t know whether it was the jarring name of such a showdown or our dislike for redundancy, but currently there is no animosity (that I know of) between The Slant and Versus. The decision to combine the distribution of our publications came from necessity, frugality, and laziness. We used to have to get up early in the morning and distribute The Slant ourselves and let me tell you, this is SOO much easier.
Besides, being easier to distribute, getting a new dust jacket came with some other perks. Coming soon, the Slant will have a new website. Still located at www.theslant.net , our new website will have lots of content to flip through and you will be able to obsessively read our stories (for instance, you will be able to look through ALL of our Fucked Images… ever). The Slant is also now bigger. Although coming out only once every three weeks (a cut of one issue a semester), our issues are roughly 4 pages longer than last year. When distributed, we’re also now in more racks than we used to be, with 6,500 copies all over campus.
Being Vanderbilt’s, America’s and the world’s favorite publication comes with a lot of responsibility and so I find it necessary to reassure humor-loving people of the world, we are not going anywhere. It will take a lot more than a recession before we are dead and gone.
Meryem Dede
Editor-in-chief
