700 Copies of Campus Magazine Disappear

Most people take just one or two copies of the magazines laid out in Lerner. This weekend, one avid reader took 700.

Of the nearly 1,700 copies printed of the current issue of Jester magazine, around 700 were found to be missing on Saturday morning from the Student Government Office in Lerner Hall.

Jester, a humor magazine originally founded in 1901 and recently reincarnated, usually comes out twice each semester. The theme of this month's issue is "liquid," and the publication is available in print as well as online.

"We're sort of surprised," said Alex Weinberg, CC '08, who is on the editorial board of Jester. "When we came into the SGO we had two more boxes of Jester to distribute and they were gone."

While members of Jester are upset over the missing issues, they have avoided making public accusations, and have decided not to involve the administration in the matter.

"We don't have a problem letting people know that this happened, but we don't want to get Public Safety involved," Weinberg said. "We don't want this to be a big deal."

Currently, the magazine has no plans to reprint the missing issues.

"We don't want to reprint them and then have the issues turn up," Weinberg said. "We're just hoping they'll turn up."

For now members of the publication have contacted the maintenance workers on duty at the SGO to see if they saw anything, and hope that they will enjoy increased traffic on their Web site.