It’s hard to believe that last year around this time, we were just starting the Mock Convention process. We submitted our Steering Committee applications over Washington Break last year. A few weeks later, we found ourselves becoming a part of a historic tradition that goes to the core of what Washington and Lee University is all about.

Today, that historic tradition is becoming a present-day reality. Tom Wolfe Weekend is April 1 and Spring Kickoff is close behind on May 4-7. We’ve been hard at work over the past few weeks planning out our upcoming publications for these events. We will publish a preview newsletter for Tom Wolfe Weekend. The actual weekend will covered in a Pre-Spring Kickoff magazine that comes out right before the event. Then our subcommittee will have to put their noses to the grind and churn out another publication the next week that covers the actual events of Spring Kickoff.

It’s going to be a lot of work and we’re going to be asking a lot from our subcommittee. But we think they’re up to the task. We had a brainstorming session tonight at our weekly meeting and there are a lot of great ideas.
Look for our reporters out trekking across campus during these events. They’ll be the ones with the pens and the notepads talking to all the important people.