Should the Griff go full digital?
Photo by Thai Sirikoone/The Griff To my surprise... some students apparently don’t care about the Griff. To hear that a MacEwan student representative candidate wants to take action to reduce funding for the Griff and turn it into a fully digital magazine was disheartening to say the least. As someone who’s always been the “art kid” and has centred my creative success over everything else, it’s always a shock to me that my peers don't hold art and creativity to the same regard. In hindsight, it makes sense. Why would a finance student really care about art? Or care as much as I do, at least. But it makes me wonder whether the lack of regard stems from simple disinterest or from the times we live in. In the great 2026, anything...
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