Dear readers,

As you can see we’ve changed a few things about this issue. There are color schemes, show stoppers, packages, and the most noticeable factor, it’s glossy, finally. See, as a staff, before establishing the content for each cycle we ask ourselves questions. What’s going on in the world right now? How are students at Northwest being affected? What are they talking about? Why do they care? And the most important. How can we make them care? Colossal divides are impacting this country, in regards to politics, religion, gender, sexuality, morals, and more. But rather than prompting curiosity, or celebration, people have made differences a point of contention. 

Our mission for this issue is to angle the spotlight on different students and their struggles with being different. This issue represents our student body and the struggles we face in and out of NW. Within the Targets package, all stories are meant to represent the different reasons as to why a student could be targeted.

  We hope those who take the time to read this issue will think about ways they might be targeted. And ways they might be the arrow.

The Northwest Passage Coeditor-in-Chiefs,

Greta Grist and Sofia Ball