The Muhlenberg Advocate

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The Muhlenberg Advocate, colloquially known within the Muhlenberg College community as The Advocate or the Advo, is an independent online publication created and maintained by students of Muhlenberg College. It is unaffiliated with any political movement, academic department, or student group. Though The Advocate often features articles pertaining in some way to Muhlenberg College, articles frequently focus on issues and events of national and global importance.

The Muhlenberg Advocate was founded in the spring of 2000 by several former students, all freshmen at the time, including Russ Choma '03, Matt Targarona '03 and Jay Dombi '03. The publication was at least partially modelled on The Nassau Weekly, Princeton University's alternative weekly student newspaper.

Though the College funds the Advocate's online hosting fees, it holds no editorial oversight or decision making authority, allowing The Advocate to maintain its integrity as a member of the independent media.

1 Sections
2 The Kickball Saga
3 Editors
4 External link

[edit] Sections

The Unsigned Editorial, which states the general opinion of the paper's editorial board. It is unsigned because it represents the opinion of the newspaper, not any one individual.

Features, which consists of articles with an informative rather than opinionated agenda.

Op-Ed, which features opinion articles.

Culture, which features articles on contemporary music, movies, television and other components of media culture, as well as restaurant reviews and other reflections of non-media culture.

Columns, the mainstays of which are Sports, Social, International, and a sex column. From 2004-2005 the sex columnist was Kristie Bradnell, during which time the column was named "The K-Spot." When the current sex columnist, Bianca Foxwell, began writing for the Advocate, the name changed to "The B-Spot." Whether these student sex columnists are actual Muhlenberg students or simply students operating under pseudonymns has been kept secret from the Muhlenberg Advocate's reading public.

Mosaic Crossroads, which features student art, poetry, prose, photography, and other forms of creative student art.

Verbatim, a collection of comical and nonsensical quotes heard around the Muhlenberg campus.

[edit] The Kickball Saga

Since 2003, The Muhlenberg Advocate and Muhlenberg College's Writing Center have engaged in a facetious rivalry culminating each year in a kickball game at Muhlenberg's Scotty Wood Stadium. The Writing Center Radical Pedagogues are currently undefeated by the Advo Cats. In response to the Writing Center's most recent win, the Advocate published an editorial divulging the Writing Center team's often brutal, masochistic training regimen.