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NewsvineCaley and Betsy got the pleasure this evening of reliving Intermission. We know that many of you might not remember when we started working here, but Caley and Betsy started out together. Intermission was a 40-hour job last year when we had no clue what we were doing. No one even knew the password to the email (have you ever sat in front of a computer and tried to guess every possible word?).
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Caley and Betsy began working at The Daily as layout editors on Tuesday and Thursday — this was WITHOUT Duran. Will Oremus, the Editor-in-Chief that volume, had put the trust of the whole paper in the hands of freshmen. The News Desk Editor, Brendan Selby, would always talk about Caley to Betsy, and vice versa; however, our paths hadn’t crossed yet. The next volume, under Cynthia Cho, C&B worked on Intermission as layout editors with Brendan Marten (Yes! The same one!), Tam Vo (Intermission Guru) and Sam Tanzer (Who?) as our bosses. It was through osmosis that we learned the Intermission trade, and the next fall we found ourselves in charge of the whole thing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
If you think that it wasn’t a good idea to let two fresh sophomores be responsible for a semi-independent publication, you have to consider they trusted us to send and layout The Daily as new-to-the Farm freshmen. The first volume wasn’t without its tests. No one had checked the email in two years, and most of the snail mail remained un-opened. We had to hold a garage sale just to be able to walk into our office.
Vegoose was our first true test — and we couldn’t even check in at our hotel (F.Y.I, you have to be 21 in order to check into a hotel in Vegas). Despite the pitfalls — bugs in the bed, a locked trailer and two Howard Johnsons (check out all the coverage in the November 4, 2005 issue of Intermission), Caley and Betsy had the time of their lives, to use a cliché. Caley was a professional photographer standing mere feet away from the big-name artists, and Betsy was third row for Dave Matthews Band and Blue Man Group
Like every epic story, there was a period where the protagonists split up. Caley defected to Sports — a dark time that she still doesn’t like to talk about. And Betsy took a chance on the man voted most likely to quit during the volume — Victor Fuste. C&B didn’t get to see each other much since we didn’t even work on the same nights. There was a mini-reunion at the end of spring quarter when Intermission traveled to Seattle. Caley and Victor’s homeland weekend was full of Tiger Woods 2006, baseball games and the Pike Place Market Fesival.
At the beginning of junior year, Caley left for Australia as Betsy settled into her new role as a Branner RA — both had their challenges. Caley had leeches and crocodiles while Betsy had, well, freshmen (I love you guys, really!). This week, Caley and Betsy finally worked together — like The Police playing at The Grammys. Natalie Justicz — one of our regular Thursday night layout editors — is out of town surprising her family.
I guess all this reminiscing has made both Betsy and Caley realize how old they are (bear with us if you are over the age of 21... we know we aren’t actually old, but we’re 126 in Daily years — that’s your age multiplied by the number of volumes you’ve worked here). Many of our best moments of the last three years have been spent together working long hours for The Stanford Daily. Some of those best moments are to come — next year, when we’re 21, we’re going to Vegoose, baby!