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In This Issue

• Christmas Gift to the World: Obama’s Dream Team Cabinet
• ‘Tis the Season for Booze and Folly
• Letter from the FEDitor
• From the Archives - Volume 15, Issue 2
• The Blue and White
• Problems That Only Hipsters Have
• A Special Holiday Message
• This Holiday Season, Eat Your Words with Roasted Chestnuts
• Recession Vacation!
• That Kid.
• The Pros and Cons of Being Chrewish
• Course Descriptions of Classes You Really Don’t Want to Take Next Semester
• The Top Five Ways To Get Laid on Campus
• THEY Watch
• The Staff of 24.4

When the current staff took control of The Fed, the newspaper was like an infant child tossed twelve stories down a compactor chute and abandoned in the sweltering desert with a buzzard tied to its ankle.

Our staff was weak in numbers, yes, but weaker still in spirit. Left to fend for ourselves (with the buzzard) in the wilderness of a CU bureaucracy we could scarcely begin to comprehend, a sea of apathy from a student body that seems to relish nothing more than watching peers pull epic fails, and amid fellow campus publications that would have been only too happy to take our office.

To fill 12 pages a month, we scraped the very bottom of the barrel. And we didn't stop there. We drained the bottom of the barrel with crazy straws, and then we licked what was left. Those were dark times, indeed. We began this year with the knowledge that without a massively successful recruitment The Fed could not hope to survive another year. During Orientation, The Blue and White offered their freshman milk and cookies; we gave ours beer and roofies. We did not take any chances.

We were lucky enough to net a group of talented and enthusiastic freshmen and transfer students as deranged and eccentric as ourselves. And it has been an absolute thrill to work with this group this semester. They have gone on to submit some of the most hilarious articles and bizarre cartoons The Fed has seen in a long while. In writing workshops and layout meetings, we've watched them contribute their time and energy, their bold ideas and oddball thoughts, licking their lips in eager anticipation of one day having our jobs.

Well, starting next issue, these misfits will get their wish. And I join the departing staff in wishing them the very best of luck in ushering The Fed into its next quarter-century of publication.

To our readers: I hope you've been enjoying the ride and I hope you'll stick around a while longer. To the staff, old and new: it's been fun. Thanks, guys.

-Sam Reisman,
Feditor-in-Chief, 2008