The Lanthorn and the Drawing Board will be finishing up the year with some new events. The Lanthorn will be releasing a staff edition of the Lanthorn and will host a storytelling night. The Drawing Board will be ending this semester with a color issue for the first time in at least four years.
Both the editors of the Lanthorn, Megan Specksgoor and Hannah Hanover, as well as Patricia Powles, the editor of the Drawing Board, will be graduating at the end of this semester, and so new editors will be coming to take their place. Leah Doty, junior, will be replacing Powles as editor of the Drawing Board and the next editor of the Lanthorn has not be chosen yet. Applications for this position are available online through Survey Monkey, and they are due no later than Monday, April 15.
“She [Leah Doty] is going to be great,” said Powles.
The Drawing Board hopes that the color issue will be much different than the regular issues not only because it is in color, but also because it will hopefully be a larger in size.
The Lanthorn’s last publication this year will be an issue with all staff material; usually, The Lanthorn takes submissions from the student body and then as a staff chooses which pieces to publish. By publishing an all-staff issue, The Lanthorn hopes to show a different side of their publication.
“People doesn’t always realize that we have very creative and talented staff,” said Specksgoor.
As part of their year-end activities, The Lanthorn will also be hosting a storytelling night.
“We want to go back to the oral tradition,” said Specksgoor.
In looking ahead to the coming years, the current Lanthorn editors plan to encourage the new editors next year to start a website, which would offer the opportunity for creative writers at Houghton to get their work published to a larger audience.
A website could also open up Houghton to prospective students. Hanover said, “That way when prospective writing students and art students look at [the website] they see a venue for publishing.”
Hanover and Specksgoor hope for editors who share a similar vision for the Lanthorn next year: one of branching out and reaching all of Houghton’s community.
“We really want it to be less of a ‘here are twenty English majors on a pedestal’ kind of thing . . . we really want it to be more open so that everyone can feel included,” said Specksgoor.
