Thank Yous and Acknowledgements . . .

What a year it has been! The process of creating volume 27 has been challenging, but ultimately rewarding and has led to so many fantastic opportunities to grow and learn. Taking on the role of leading an organization like ours has the pressure of history associated with it. There is a lot of responsibility in handling the legacy of an institution like Mars’ Hill and being able to handle that legacy takes more than just the few of us officially on staff.

We must take time to extend a multitude of “thank yous” to everyone outside of the dozen members of staff who worked to make this year’s paper possible. Thank you to the TWUSA team for welcoming us so graciously into the TWUSA fold.

Thank you to the many members of TWU’s staff and faculty and members of the volume 26 team who offered practical support, encouragement, and advice. Thank you to everyone who allowed us to interview them or who gave us comments for stories. Bailey would like to extend a special thank you to SAMC as a collective for putting up with their jokes about arts students in the horoscopes.

While there are many, many people who supported us throughout the year, there are a few we would like to highlight in particular: Kristian Trevena, Christa Lyford, Jasmine Mancuso, Simon Shackelford, Loranne Brown, Carter Sawatzky, Chrisaleen Ciro, Kelsey Voth, and Andrew Bouchard.

It would be remiss of us not to mention our many fabulous regular contributors, guest writers, and cover artists. Mars’ Hill cannot function without the work of contributors who truly make each issue unique and special.

And, lastly, thank you to you, the reader. Mars’ Hill exists for the benefit of the student body of TWU. If it were not for the people who read our publi- cation — those who have passed on their encouragement, held us accountable for our mistakes, or just idly perused an issue in between classes — we would have no purpose. Thank you for reading this far into the issue and for your continued support of the work that we do.

Of course, not to sound like a broken record, but we are currently hiring for our team next year. The experience of working for a publication like this is a true delight and ultimately very rewarding.

Until next year,

— MARS’ HILL