Jo

Jo
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**Jo** is one of the writers for The Catullan.

## History

### New Writers

Jo welcomed all the new students who were attempting to join the staff of The Catullan. Among those was Bela Malhotra, who gave six standing members handjobs in exchange for them voting for her to move on to the next round.

At Theta's party, Jo and Evangeline Hashima ran into Bela, who introduced herself and said she was excited to work with them. Evangeline called her a slut and Jo told her she should have checked if the guys had girlfriends.

Jo later attended the get-together they had to celebrate the eight hopefuls who made it through the first round of cuts.

### Tapping Bela

Jo came along with the other writers to Bela's dorm to tell her she was being tapped by The Catullan. She said that Bela was a genius.

### Ousting Ryan

Jo was present when Evangeline, Eric, Carla, and Bela confronted Ryan for assaulting Bela and Carla. She told him they knew what he had done and the told him he was out. He objected and tried to strike down Bela's credibility, but they remained firmly on Bela's side and told him to leave. At the next Catullan meeting, Hank objected to how Ryan was removed from the staff and said he wasn't the only one who thought so. This led to Bela quitting The Catullan. Jo and Evangeline found Bela at the next party and told her that they had quit as well and wanted to start an all-female comedy magazine with her.

### 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

Jo 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.

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.

At a party, Jo and Evangeline confronted Bela and said they knew that she had lied about the article, because the reporter told them he showed it to Bela and she approved it. In addition to that, Bela had told one of the new writers, Jorja, to quit The Foxy and comedy writing entirely. They told Bela they were supposed to be creating something new and better with The Foxy, not perpetuating the same toxicity. They said that Bela was fired from The Foxy and they would be housing with Carla instead of her.

## References

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