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[email protected] 1 EDITORS’ NOTE Welcome to the 5th edition of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Crimson Quill. Our mission is to encourage undergraduate students from English 100, 101, 121, and 202 to find ownership and take pride in their contributions to the university community through their writing. In the past, CQ was carefully curated to display exceptional student work that was further polished by CQ editors; it has served as a journal for IUP’s core undergraduate English courses. However, in this latest edition we have revamped our approach and design to better serve not only as a showcase for student writing, but also as a clearer pedagogical tool. Some of the changes in this edition, in brief, include: • In previous editions student submissions have been carefully edited by Crimson Quill editors; in this edition, however, each piece appears exactly as it was submitted.