Madison Munro - 2020 January 27

Hello! Being my first day of work, I think it went well and that I'm really going to enjoy working here. I only had to ask Sara a couple of questions which is a personal triumph. I finished scanning The Mill 2017 which was full of student work particularly poetry with some graphic images, seeming to be mixed media or collage. These were rather fascinating to leaf through as I was scanning, as poetry and art are two of my interests. The system of saving information was a bit challenging but I  got the hang of it after a few tries. After completing The Mill scanning, I got to visit the archives to retrieve the Jason box #5. I was quite curious to see what would be in a box labeled "Jason", my true-crime-obsessed- brain immediately thought of evidence boxes. Rationally, I realized it was unlikely that someone would donate incriminating evidence to their Alma mater, but who knows. Having gone through the first of the Jason books, I see that they are also pages of poetry and artistic rendering. I find it interesting that the Willamette poets of the 1970s utilized the space of the page much more than the 2017 poets. The lines were often broken up and spaced out spanning the whole of the page. I'm excited to dive further into this box and the ones following it.