Carla

**Carla** is one of the writers for The Caullan.

## History

### Interning at The Catullan

Carla was one of the Catullan hopefuls who made it through the first round of cuts. Eric and Ryan told the eight of them that they would spend the next six weeks interning as support staff, running errands for the writers. At the end of that time, those still remaining would submit their final pieces for consideration.

### Final Submission

Carla came to The Catullan building on the day the final submissions were due. When Jeff turned in his at the last minute, she and Bela talked about how dated Jeff's humor was. Ryan then ended up taking them upstairs, a place previously off limits to them. They were in awe of all the comedy memorabilia.

### First Submission As a Writer and Reporting Ryan

After being selected as one of the new writers, Carla attended the first meeting. Evangeline explained that it was tradition for the new writers to submit pieces on their first day and one would be selected to be featured on The Catullan Instagram. Carla asked if she and Bela could write a piece together and Evangeline said that was okay. While they worked on their piece, Carla told Bela that Ryan had shown her his penis in a bad way and it was all she could think about anytime she was in The Catullan building. She asked if he had ever done anything like that to Bela and Bela said he hadn't. Unable to cope with it, Carla decided to quit The Catullan and gave Bela full credit for the piece they wrote, which was selected as the winner. Later, Bela took Carla to the Women's Center, where Alicia told them no matter what they told her, she was their ally.

Carla and Bela met with Rikki in the Title IX office and she explained that they'd both give written statement and the office would decide if they needed to intervene to protect the community. Otherwise, it was up to Bela and Carla if they wanted to move forward with an investigation. In the meantime, she recommended avoiding Ryan as much as possible.

### Ousting Ryan

Ryan was called into a meeting with Eric, Evangeline, Jo, Carla, and Bela. When he arrived, they told him they knew what he had done to Bela and Carla. He denied it and reminded them that Bela had given eight handjobs. Eric said it didn't matter how many handjobs she gave and told Ryan he was out. Ryan said they couldn't just kick him out when he was the co-editor, so Eric removed his co-editor plaque from the wall and said he wasn't anymore.

### Starting The Foxy

With the plan in place to start their own comedy magazine, Jo, Evangeline, Bela, and Carla brought in several prospective new writers to try out.

As they prepared for the release of their first issue, they worried about how to reach a larger audience. Jo said that a lot of them shared the same social circles, which narrowed their reach. Evangeline said they could just start small and trust that their audience would find them, but Bela wasn't satisfied with that and they ended up going to The Catullan's printer and replacing their cover with one that had a QR code linking to The Foxy. In retaliation, Eric hacked their front page and vandalized it.

### Eric Confronting Bela

Carla and the rest of The Foxy staff were having a meeting when Eric came in and confronted Bela for sleeping with Dan O'Connell. Evangeline told him Bela was allowed to sleep with whoever she wanted, but he said they were exclusive and that that was Bela's idea. Bela tried to explain, but Eric said they were done and left. Bela tried to get the other writers on her side, but it didn't work.

### The Foxy Write-Up

At a meeting, Bela told The Foxy writers that they were getting a featured write-up in The Essex View. Carla wanted them all to wear matching shirts with the nicknames she'd made up for all of them on them, but the others shot that down and Bela said she'd be curating everything for the piece.

When the reporter came, Bela did most of the talking. When they were finished, the reporter took a picture of them. Bela ushered Carla to the back of the picture.

The article came out and the other Foxy writers were upset that it focused entirely on Bela rather than The Foxy and the other writers. Bela feigned ignorance and said the reporter hadn't shown it to her prior to it being published. She offered to have him print a retraction.

When Evangeline and Jo found out that Bela had lied and the reporter did show her the article before it was published, they confronted her and told her she was fired from The Foxy and they were giving her room to Carla.

## References

1. ↑ Naked Party
2. ↑ I Think I'm a Sex Addict
3. ↑ The Surprise Party
4. ↑ Cheating
5. ↑ The Truth
6. ↑ Winter is Coming
7. ↑ Will You Be My Girlfriend?
8. ↑ The Essex College Food Workers Strike
9. ↑ Sex & Basketball
10. ↑ The Rooming Lottery