It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what moment changes everything. The smallest decisions you make can lead you to so many places. From the Daft Punk duo’s song of the same name, Veridis Quo is a play on the Latin phrase quo vadis?, meaning: Where are you going? The question remains a constant thought in my mind: What is next for me? As I reflect on my college career, I think about all of the small decisions that shaped who I am now. I never predicted that I would be running a magazine alongside some of the most creative people I’ve ever met. It all happened because I needed to fill up my schedule. I chose to register for Journalism 207, which led me to fall in love with the field. I’ve always been nosy, so maybe I was bound to become a journalist so I could continue to learn and share others’ stories.
Quarter after quarter, we publish stories from the people within our community about the people within our community. With the future so uncertain, it’s imperative that we keep telling these stories to uplift the voices of those around us. That’s why this question is important to all of us. Working on four editions of Klipsun has helped me realize just how everyone around us all interacts to keep us moving forward. The stories in this edition remind us that we are all going different places, together.
Logan Schreiber, Co-Editor-In-Chief
Letters from the Editors-in-Chief
One of my favorite memories is of standing in a graveyard. My mom and I visited the Glasgow Necropolis in Scotland, after catching a glimpse of some of the largest gravesites I’ve ever seen from our bus window. The setting sun cast shadows on the stone monuments that patterned the sloping green hillside. I couldn’t look away.
Together we trekked up the hill, laughing as we took silly photos of one another on the way.
We reached the top, gasping for breath. It felt like the top of the world. History stood all around us; what looked like a castle to our left, the city sprawling to our right, towering graves on all sides and us smack in the middle of it all. I felt like I should hold my breath.
As we “hurrah!”-ed to my survival of freshman year of university, the wind whipped through our hair, carrying stories of those who had lived centuries before us. A celebration of my youth in a place of death. Probably crude, definitely superficial and infinitely metaphysical.
“Veridis Quo” is a culmination of what came before, what is happening now and what comes next. How we see the world and how the world sees us — beautiful, ugly, dumb, eloquent, funny or some combination of all of the above — shapes how we live. When we learn from the past and about where to go next, we help shape history.
Simply put: Be present, look forward to the future, reminisce in the past and — most importantly — let your freak flag fly because we are here now and the future is always there waiting for you, wherever you go next.
Best,
Miranda Grogger, Co-Editor-In-Chief
