Well, it’s that time of year again, the end of the year. A few weeks from now, we will be saying goodbye to 2024 and hello to 2025. 2025 feels like a year from a futuristic science fiction movie, not a year that’s imminent. Nevertheless, here we are, almost a quarter of the way through the century. 2024 has been a wild year, to say the least. A lot happened in this year from beginning to end. For instance, Ziv flooded! With POOP! Who can forget that! Fortunately, one of our editors has been inside the Ziv suite in question this year and can report that no trace of the messy disaster is left. It smells great. Thank goodness. In recent news, a new president has been chosen for both this school and country. After a dramatic vote of no confidence in Ron Liebowitz, our president for many years, he ended up resigning. Ron Liebowitz was unable to project confident, respected leadership to many students of Brandeis, and losing the faculty’s support was the last straw. The issues that the university faced—from campus protests to the university’s ongoing financial problems—were too much for him to face. The interim president that is replacing him, Arthur Levine, seems to bring a new hope of taking on these issues, as expressed in our interview with him. We hope to welcome the school’s new president with open arms. The same cannot be said for the country’s president. The re-election of Donald Trump and the failure of Kamala Harris to win over many important voters was not the result that many of us hoped for. Specifically, many students and faculty have expressed fears over the radical “Project 2025” set of proposals which might come to fruition, even if the Trump campaign has tried to distance themselves as far away from it as possible. If it’s any consolation, based on the way his tariff proposals are going, Trump will probably face electoral blowback in the 2026 midterms. In the meantime, we encourage our readers to not be afraid. We should all continue to stay politically involved, exercising the First Amendment rights that we have in a democracy and continuing to organize to support the causes that are important to us. In short, anything can happen with both university and national leaders in the upcoming year, so we are all waiting to see what could happen. See you next year, folks!