ce. The September 22, 2004 edition of the Brunswickan (Volume 138, Issue 3) offers a representation of the stories that a student editor has deemed deserving of news. This newspaper includes the consistent staples of most large-scale papers, including the news, arts and entertainment, and of course, the sports pages. A multitude of stories are offered, yet, as one delves into these stories, as one looking at a common form in a new light, they become confused by the nature of these stories. Indeed, these are not the same "stories" shared between old friends at the Pub. As Robert Fulford explains, " these pieces of information tend to be like office memos, rather than real stories, since they, "lack a story's main qualities: suspense, organization, voice, mood, and point of view."[2] So if these "stories" are not really stories at all, but instead carefully constructed forms of communicating information, does the construction end there? We react to these stories, yet these reactions have not only been foreseen but the message has also been carefully crafted to guarantee it.
             Oftentimes, the reaction evoked is a personal one. Clifford Geertz offers that, "humans are symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animals, with a drive to make sense our of experience, which is as real and as pressing as the more familiar biological needs." [2] We as humans have a desire to understand the reactions we will inevitably have to what we read, and the most credible reference for understanding these reactions is to relate it to our experience. To relate it to another point in our life when we had a similar feeling, and then hope to draw relationships between this interaction, and the previous. Certain articles in the September 22nd edition of the Brunswickan are fine candidates to generate this type of personal reaction.
             In the opinion and editorial section, the first editorial, titled, "On Woodside", written by Pat Reinartz (photo by Meg Folk...