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Meet the Athenian

Case Western Reserve University’s Best, Worst, and Only Active Satire Magazine

Exec Board

Meet our Exec Board! If you are interested in joining us, feel free to reach out to athenian-editors@case.edu.

Evan Durkee

Editor in Chief

Majors: Electrical Engineering/Material Science and Engineering

Year: Junior

“He’s Evan”

Jake Bridge

Managing Editor

Jake (Mathematics and English ’27) was once but a copy editor. He has now ascended to the position of managing editor, but still continues to regale The Athenian with really bad articles (in both verse and prose). Outside of The Athenian, he is a brother of Theta Chi Fraternity, researcher in poetics, board/card game enjoyer, and consumer of bad music. He is often found with his shoddy wooden saw, stick with two prongs on the end (à la a backscratcher), and two vaguely semispherical objects.

Fiona Arado

Business Manager

Fiona Arado is a 3rd year majoring in Economics, Anthropology, and (tentatively) Business Management. She is the Business Manager and is very passionate about managing business. Obviously. She can be found crocheting, agonizing over her fantasy football leagues, or ruining the lives of sims. She also really likes aquatic mammals (except dolphins because dolphins are evil).

Nat Qiu

Design Team

Natalie “Nat for short” Qiu (4th year, CS major + studio art minor) was once a Business Manager for The Athenian, but after they were discovered skimming bagels from the ledger, they were sentenced to 300 years of graphic design. They will be in touch once their sentence is up.

Nealey Barak

Head of Design

Nealey Barak (3rd year Biology and Psychology major) is the head of design for the Athenian. She joined for the free rubber ducks and somehow ended up in an exec role, but she is trying to learn Adobe Indesign to make up for it. Outside of The Athenian, she has a radio show on WRUW, volunteers at the Cleveland apl, and can often be found avoiding homework to watch dancing with the stars.

Arya Srivastava

Head of DistrIBution/Copy Editor

Arya Srivastava is a second year who started off as a contributor and somehow managed to get golf cart keys. (They’re not sure who approved that decision, but are grateful nevertheless). Outside of The Athenian, Arya is also involved in CWRU Crew and Film Society, so if you see someone crying over schoolwork in the dusty corners of Strosacker on a Friday night, that’s probably them!

Kai Tibbitts

Social Media Manager

Kai Tibbitts (Sophomore, major undisclosed) is the Social Media Manager and lowkey just a chill guy (6’2 btw). Avid reader of feminist literature. Likes long walks on the beach, looking for a life partner (6’4 btw). Really cool and awesome at managing social media and being a psych and cognitive scientist major (6’7 btw)

David Kaplan

Webmaster/ARCHIVIST/Copy Editor

David Kaplan (sophomore-on-standby, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major, Electrical Engineering and Human Suffering minor) is The Athenian’s Webmaster and Archivist for the second year in a row (because nobody else wanted the job). He also Copy Edits and is now fundamentally incapable of reading any document without immediately seeing all comma errors (please help me). He can often be found in the basement of the buildings of local manufacturing companies, retrieving components to assemble The Device.

Ren

Design Team

Bio Coming soon

Cade Kuhlins

Bitch Boy Copy Editor

Cade Kuhlins is a third year Chemical Engineering major (Yeah, Science!), mathematics and physics minor, and full time nervous wreck. Some may refer to him as “bitch boy,” but according to the official bylaws of The Athenian, this is not a real position in the organization. When not writing and/or editing the funny pages, Cade can be found singin’ and dancin’ his lil’ heart out for the CWRU Footlighters and Case Glee Club, tootin’ his trombone in the Jazz Ensemble(s), or some other third thing. Cade would like to thank his parents for bringing him into this mortal coil, Ryan Reynolds for being so sexy and funny, and the academy for this great honor.

Contributors

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Jenny Fu

jenny is a third year biology and sociology double major (very cwru coded), she loves birds (especially ducks), and matcha. her favorite type of articles to write involve niche chronically online references that will inevitably confuse readers. when she’s not writing for the athenian, you can probably find her on the 3rd floor of ksl working on something on canva or sitting in a coffee shop somewhere in cleveland.

Jonah Kerchner

Jonah Kerchner is a second year Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major who spends his spare time writing for the Athenian, plotting to take over the world, and gathering an absurd collection of dice, MacGuffins, and Chekhov’s Guns. If you have any spare d20s or tips on global domination, you can find him through the third door on your right.