This week’s Club Spotlight is focusing on the very newspaper that you are reading now: The Spur.

The Spur is a place for like-minded people to meet and write articles for the local campus newspaper.

“Nicole Schwing is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and when I first met her, I thought that she was kind of scary,” An anonymous source said. “But then she turned out to be nicer than I thought. I heard some rumors that [the staff writers] actually don’t write any of their own articles, that they have ghost writers do it for them.”

Another anonymous source agreed.

“Yeah! That definitely supports other rumors that I’ve heard,” The second anonymous source said. “I hear that the ghost writers are the ghosts of students who worked for the Spur in the past but didn’t get credit for the articles they wrote, and now they spend their afterlife here in the boring office writing articles for students, not getting any credit for it.”

Andrew Bradley, staff writer, disagreed.

“The writers are definitely writing their own stuff. Also, Nicole and the editors are absolute dreams to work for. They are absolute angels. No, I am definitely not reading off a script that has been prepared for me. Do not be so preposterous. You are funny. Ha ha ha.” Bradley said.

As for why the campus paper is named The Spur, the two anonymous sources had their own theories.

“I hear that when the school first opened and the newspaper was started up, the students were paid in spurs. As in, actual spurs. Made of gold,” The first anonymous source said.

“What I heard is that when the newspaper first started, the staff had all these extra spurs around because their hobbies included being jockeys, and if the students didn’t have their articles in on time they would have to wear the Spur of Shame. I haven’t personally seen it, but I wouldn’t doubt that it’s still somewhere in the office,” the second anonymous source said.

Regardless of what the rumors may be, The Spur is a great place to gather with friends and write articles about something that interests you. Meetings are held in IL 216 on Thursdays at noon.