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Editor's Back Page by Paul Nagai '88 #978
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[This editorial has been displaced due to the NAP Honor Roll and fund information. It was absent from the last issue. Maybe it will appear in its normal location in the next Oak Leaf. Maybe not. Isn't mystery grand? --Eds.]
You will have found by now that this issue of the Oak Leaf contains a considerable number of short articles written by Chris or me. You will also notice that there are several features that reprint content from earlier issues of the Oak Leaf. And if you are really paying attention, you will notice that there aren't that many letters from you, the readers. In the last two issues of the Oak Leaf, Chris and I have made seemingly bold and daring statements about our renewed commitment to you, dear reader, to publish the Oak Leaf regularly, and to publish it frequently. We did not expect these commitments to immediately draw respect. Nor do we assume that the unheard-of swift arrival of this issue will completely convince you this phenomenon is a local disturbance in the way of things and that we will soon slip into printum in anno solementum. However, now that we have met our first goals, and we are confident that we can meet the rest, we have challenges for you. First and foremost: While we will be making a special effort to reprint topical, historical, fascinating, or just plain funny letters and articles from previous issues of the Oak Leaf (going all the way back to the very first issues), it is not our intent to fall inward into the mere recycling of old material. You must respond to our efforts, you must write us about your successes, your businesses, your parties, your friends, your children...your lives. Your letters, be they nostalgic, poetic, literary, or comic, will truly define the success or failure of the Oak Leaf as we hurtle toward the end of this century and begin the trek toward the 100th anniversary of the founding of Nu Alpha Phi. Toward this end, encouraging letter writing, we, the editors of the Oak Leaf issue the following challenge: If you are mentioned in a letter or an article published in the Oak Leaf, you must write something for the next Oak Leaf whether a letter, an article, a poem...whatever. Failure to do so will be severely punished by 47 whacks with an initiation paddle! The names of those challenged (by mention) will be published somewhere in each Oak Leaf. Lists will be checked, performance monitored, and the names of the laggards given to the Sergeant-at-arms for the meting out of paddle-justice. The first group of Oak Leaf Challenges follow:
Brent Adamson '75 #759 We expect to hear from you in our next issue. The second and nearly equally foremost concern is dues. Increasing the frequency of Oak Leaf publication has a direct and significant impact on the annual cost of operating the Nu Alpha Phi Alumni Association. Participation in the paying of dues must rise. The annual dues of $10 pay, rather directly, for the publication and distribution of the Oak Leaf, the cost of which, like all things in this world, continues to rise. Furthermore, while the use of computer technology has improved the quality of the Oak Leaf and helped ease the pain of frequent publication, the materials and equipment is not cheap. The birth of the Nu Alpha Phi homepage and its continued development also bears not insignificant expenditures, some of them ongoing. To date, these costs have almost exclusively been borne by your editors, Chris and myself, the webmaster, Matt Kosokoff, and the site master, Robert Falconer. So, please, if you have let your dues paying slide due to the infrequent or non-appearance of the Oak Leaf, now is the time to renew your commitment by beginning to pay annual dues again and, hopefully, bring yourself up to date for any past dues. Those of you sorely in arrears need not pay all of your past dues at once. We will be here publishing the Oak Leaf regularly for some time to come, so, if you must, spread your catch-up payments over the next couple of years. - Paul Nagai '88 #978 |
