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A Brief History of The Rambler and Its Unique Mission
The Rambler is an independent student journal at Christendom College dedicated to providing a new generation of conservative and Catholic journalists and intellectuals. The excellent and unparalleled liberal arts education at Christendom allows us to train future journalists and intellectuals uniquely equipped to face the challenges of tomorrow. According to The Rambler’s original masthead, it was founded in 2002 in order to provide a forum for Christendom students to express their “political, social, spiritual and academic ideas, opinions, thoughts, and conjectures.” The Rambler is a publication unlike any other
student journal, because we are training the journalists and intellectuals of
tomorrow to engage the world and their communities with the unparalleled
education they receive from In the Spring of 2006,
then-junior John Jalsevac ’08, took the reigns of The Rambler as
editor-in-chief in order to revive what had unfortunately become a flagging
project largely ignored by the campus populace. From a journal with a staff of
only three or four, The Rambler’s staff under Jalsevac’s leadership quickly
burgeoned into an effective hierarchical structure of editors, assistant
editors, section editors, and writers. The Rambler went through
a complete visual revamp from a 4-8 page, half-size publication printed on a
laser jet printer and stapled by hand, into a 16-page, full-size,
magazine-style weekly, printed on high-quality paper. The first edition of this newly redesigned Rambler was entitled The Phoenix Edition, and saw a total of 8 issues printed, and impressed the college with its professional spirit and ambition.
In the summer of 2006, The Rambler marked a milestone and vastly expanded its potential after it applied to and was accepted into the
Collegiate Network (CN), a large nation-wide network of conservative
collegiate papers and journals. The Network put The Rambler’s
staff in contact with professional journalists willing to help out in
any way possible, and hundreds of other conservative student
journalists across the United States. Every year The Rambler’s
editor-in-chief, and one other junior staff member attend the CN’s
all-expenses-paid annual editors conference at the Hilton Scottsdale
Resort in Phoenix Arizona to learn how to improve the paper, which serves as a training ground for future Catholic leaders in media.
The Rambler’s second major transition began in Fall 2007, when John
Jalsevac stepped down as editor-in-chief and handed responsibility for The Rambler and the success of its
mission to current editor-in-chief Peter J. Smith ’09, who had returned from a
year-long sabbatical from his undergraduate studies at Christendom College.
The Rambler has continued to undergo changes in its design and its content, always seeking to pursue the highest level of professionalism possible for an independent student-run journal.
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