Dear Reader,

Thank you for picking up the final Fenwick Review issue of the academic year. We are both immensely grateful for all your support throughout the year and we hope to have provided you engrossing and enriching reading. As our time as Co-Editors comes to an end, we are happy to introduce Anthony Cash and Evan Poellinger as our successors here at the Review. We are confident they will carry on the good work we’ve been able to accomplish this year.

As we look back over the year, we can’t help but consider how “quiet” things have been for us. We haven’t had the sparks of conflict that arose from events like the Benny Liew article or when Heather MacDonald came to campus. We never strive to create controversy, yet we also do not purposely avoid addressing contentious issues or from providing a perspective that differs from the apparent popular consensus.

Take this as you will, but we hope it sets the stage for a future of the Review free from the bog of its mistaken appearance as a firebrand publication. We hope this will challenge readers to engage more earnestly with our articles, not simply dismissing them as “hateful.” Again, this is not to say we have or that we plan to water down our message or our values. But, this does anticipate an appealing future for our publication.

We hope to see issues of The Fenwick Review adorning campus for decades to come, and we hope likewise for the mailboxes of all our donors. Thank you again to everyone who has supported us.

Sincerely,

Andrew Buck ‘22 & John Pietro ‘22 Co-Editors-in-Chief