Amid the growing demand for more campus news, a new weekly newsletter, The Acquisitor, aims to provide just that. The Nubian Message sat down with co-President and Founder Caimile Loy to discuss the direction of the newsletter and why they created it.
The Nubian Message: Would you mind introducing yourself and why you created The Acquisitor?
Caimile Loy: So I am currently a senior at NC State. I’m majoring in English: Rhetoric and Professional Writing. I want to say last year, sometime in 2023 over the summer, one of my friends, Kemmia Ghodrat, and I wanted to start a personal project together. We didn’t know exactly what it was going to be at first, but we wanted to start a personal project together. We thought that something we were really passionate about was sharing our experiences in college and just having conversations about college in general.
TNM: What is The Acquisitor?
CL: The idea was just to send out a little curated thing once a week via email that has blog content and news content that relates to those things. It’s meant to provide these sort of no-nonsense college tips, insights and news that helps students maximize the college experience on every level. Because sometimes I feel like a lot of college students feel lost…But we’re hoping that through this, you can kind of pull insights that can guide you to a better way to figure out how you want to use college, really, to build your future. The whole thing about college is that it’s not an experience that happens to you, it’s a tool you leverage.
TNM: What are your goal for the future with The Acquisitor?”
CL: Besides just growing our number of readers, we’re also hoping to grow the number of writers that are working on this project with us. This is an opportunity. Right now, we only send out an email once a week, but in the future, I hope to be able to send out more than once a week and maybe change up the content, change up the layout for different days…And the hope is that we have more writers on board from all kinds of different departments and organizations that can just bring their own insights that they’re looking to share with other students and have them also write. Whether it’s short form, long form or even just small snippets of things that they just want to share and put out there as it relates to the college experience. So that is the biggest goal right now for The Acquisitor, is to really turn this into a platform where people feel like they can share the things that are important to them that they think would help other students cool.
TNM: The Acquisitor is also trying out a new forum that you have called “Campus Chats,” can you expand a little more on this?
CL: We just wanted to create an open forum for college students to bring their opinions and ideas about a number of different topics that we feel like are important, or at least that are being talked about right now. It’s to talk about anything that is relevant to the college experience. We wanted it to be discussion-based learning, where you’re engaging outside of the classroom and talking about these things that are important to you in a space where you are free to say whatever it is you would like to say about that thing. You’re learning more about a topic, you’re learning about what other people have to say about that topic, and you’re sharing what you feel or what you think about that topic. It’s also meant to help generate actionable insights. And I know that sounds super vague, but the idea there is that…when it comes to that particular topic you can turn into some kind of action or project or incentive. The point is that it’s very explorative.
TNM: How can people find out more about The Acquisitor?
CL: To find out more about us, you can go to our website: www.theacquisitor.com. You can also find us on Instagram: @the.acquisitor. And you can find us on LinkedIn as well. You can also reach out to us via email, which is [email protected].
