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A Club’s Inspiring Transformation: The Decline and Revival of The Spectrum
BY SOPHIE ZHANG '22
From assembling the newspaper’s layout by hand in the ’90s to conducting meetings over Zoom in our present day, The Spectrum continues to evolve. However, I learned last year that The Spectrum I know and love today differs greatly from what it once was. There wasn’t always an organized process of writing articles or a precise structure to running meetings. In fact, The Spectrum couldn’t even afford to print around five years ago. With an ever-rotating staff, our beloved newspaper has surely had its ups and downs since its founding in 1982. Between 2014 and 2016, The Spectrum experienced “a steep decline,” according to Ms. Hammond, the newspaper’s advisor since 2005. She points out that there were “some less motivated members of the editorial staff” who had inherited the titles but “weren’t contributing a lot.” One leader in particular had other commitments and couldn’t be regularly relied on. Few were coming to meetings and recruiting writers, and articles were pulled together at the last minute. Furthermore, no one was willing to sell advertisements and raise money to print The Spectrum, leading to a virtual newspaper in 2015. However, creating a website lacked appeal to staff...
BY SOPHIE ZHANG '22
From assembling the newspaper’s layout by hand in the ’90s to conducting meetings over Zoom in our present day, The Spectrum continues to evolve. However, I learned last year that The Spectrum I know and love today differs greatly from what it once was. There wasn’t always an organized process of writing articles or a precise structure to running meetings. In fact, The Spectrum couldn’t even afford to print around five years ago. With an ever-rotating staff, our beloved newspaper has surely had its ups and downs since its founding in 1982. Between 2014 and 2016, The Spectrum experienced “a steep decline,” according to Ms. Hammond, the newspaper’s advisor since 2005. She points out that there were “some less motivated members of the editorial staff” who had inherited the titles but “weren’t contributing a lot.” One leader in particular had other commitments and couldn’t be regularly relied on. Few were coming to meetings and recruiting writers, and articles were pulled together at the last minute. Furthermore, no one was willing to sell advertisements and raise money to print The Spectrum, leading to a virtual newspaper in 2015. However, creating a website lacked appeal to staff...
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