Eric Miller

**Eric Miller** is a student at Essex. He is a co-editor at The Catullan, formerly alongside Ryan, his once best friend.

## History

### New Writers

Eric and his co-editor, Ryan Hutton, welcomed all the new freshman who wanted to write for The Catullan. They explained the selection process and told the news writers what they'd be expected to submit for consideration. Later, one of the freshmen, Bela Malhotra, found Eric on campus and asked if she could film her submission instead, so they could hear it in her voice. He told her not to be disappointed if she didn't make the cut the first year, because they didn't have a lot of female spots with so many people applying. He also told her there were other comedy groups on campus she could join.

### Next Round

Eric and Ryan congratulated the eight writers who made it to the next round. They explained that those hopefuls would spend the next six weeks interning as support staff, running errands. Those still left at the end of that time would submit their final pieces for consideration.

### Catullan Benefit

Eric attended the benefit that was thrown for past and present Catullan writers. When Danny Marawitz gave a sexist and racist speech and Bela confronted him over it, he withdrew the sizable donation he'd pledged and left. Eric followed him how, desperate to get Danny to reconsider. Despite this, Evangeline believed Bela had done the right thing. When Evangeline herself had introduced herself to Danny, he'd told her he would just call her Ali Wong. Fortunately, Thomas, another alum, stepped in and replaced half the donation Danny would have made.

### Catullan Party

Eric was at a Catullan party when he answered the door to find Bela, who had not been invited, there. Later, she tried to join a discussion he was involved in and he said they were discussing Franzen. She mistook that for Franzia, but then pretended she was joking.

### Final Submissions

Eric waited by the submission box as the time ran out for the final submissions. He watched as Jeff put his in right before the time ran out. He told them they'd read the submissions and might not even choose any new writers. After the submissions were reviewed, Eric went around with the other writers to congratulate the new writers, including Bela.

### New Writers

After the new writers had all been informed, they held a meeting to welcome them and explained that it was tradition for each new writer to submit a piece on their first day and the winner from among those would be featured on The Catullan Instagram. At their next meeting. Eric said that Carla had quit and that Bela's piece, which she had co-written with Carla, had won. He said that Carla said it was mostly her, so she could enjoy solo credit.

### Bela's Report

Bela asked Evangeline and Eric to meet with her privately. When they did, she told them that Ryan had assaulted her. Evangeline was immediately supportive and checked on Bela's state while Eric was more doubtful. Bela said that he'd done the same thing to Carla, which was why she quit. After Eric walked out, Evangeline assured Bela she did the right thing. Eric later came to Bela's dorm and apologized for how he reacted. He told her believed her and would be taking action based on her report.

### Ousting Ryan

Eric called Ryan in to meet with him, Evangeline, Jo, Carla, and Bela. They told him they knew what he'd done and told him he was out. Ryan objected, trying to impeach Bela's character and saying they couldn't just oust him as he was co-editor. Eric took his co-editor plaque off the wall and told him he wasn't anymore. Ryan left. At the next Catullan meeting, one of the writers said he thought it was unfair, what had happened with Ryan. Upset at the things that had happened to her at The Catullan, Bela decided to quit and left. She later approached Eric on campus and he told her he wasn't doing very well because he'd had to end his relationship with his best friend and he needed to find a new place to live because he and Ryan had lived together.

### Helping Bela

When Bela struggled with starting her own comedy magazine with Jo, Evangeline, and Carla, she went back to Eric and tried to get her spot back at The Catullan. He said he couldn't do that because no one would want to work with her. He told her to find her team instead of waiting for them to come to her. When that worked, she came back to thank him and then kissed him and pulled off his glasses.

He and Bela continued hooking up while still being open to see other people, though Eric was surprised to see Bela trying to find another hookup while still in bed with him.

Eric and Bela were working across the table from each other when Eric asked Bela what she kept giggling about. She said she was writing a piece about the benefits of having sex with a short king. He was flattered, thinking she was talking about him, but she said she was talking about Wes, though he got her to admit that the sex with him was better than the sex with Wes.

### Holiday Issue

Eric asked Bela for her input as he designed the cover for The Catullan holiday issue, which was coming out the same day as The Foxy's debut issue. He told her he was excited to read it even though they were the competition. He found what they were doing much more impressive than The Catullan using alumni money to print a bunch of copies and deliver them to everyone on campus. Bela suddenly ran out, leaving Eric alone.

Eric confronted Bela at the KJ House Kissmas Party, asking if she was behind the cover of The Catullan being replaced with a QR code that led to The Foxy. He said he felt betrayed by her actions, but later he admitted that the site was good. While they were having sex, Bela got several notifications and learned that Eric had hacked their site and vandalized it. She pledged to burn The Catullan to the ground.

### Bela's Jealousy

Eric was at a party with Dana, his date and one of the new Catullan writers when Bela approached. Eric introduced them, triggering Bela's jealousy. Bela found Eric and Dana later when they were sitting on a bench and pretended not to see Dana as she talked to Eric. Dana excused herself and Eric told Bela that he and Dana were going to the Theta party together. Bela said she was also going with a date.

At the party, Bela introduced Eric and Dana to Aaron and pretended not to remember Dana's name. After poking herself with a straw in the eye, Bela excused herself to the bathroom. Eric found her in there and called her on her jealousy. She told him she didn't want to be non-monogamous anymore. Instead, she might want to date Eric. Eric said they could do that and they kissed. The two of them then left the party together.

### Dan O'Connell's Show

Eric was jealous when Bela was named the student liaison for Dan O'Connell's visit to campus. He told her just to be herself and no force things. During his visit, while they were at a party together, Bela bragged to Eric about Dan. When she said she needed to bring Dan a beer, Eric grabbed a beer and took it to Dan himself. He told Dan he was a huge fan and Dan suggested that both Eric and Bela work on submission packets for his show. He told them what the packet needed and Eric said he had all that, thought Bela did not. Dan gave Eric his number and said he liked his attitude.

### Confronting Bela

When he learned that Dan O'Connell and Bela had slept together while her was in town, Eric went to Bela and confronted her. Evangeline defended that Bela was allowed to sleep with whomever she wanted, but Eric said they were exclusive and that was Bela's idea. Bela tried to defend her actions, but Eric said they were done and left.

Bela went to Eric's place to try to talk to him, but his dads answered the door and told Bela to leave because Eric didn't want to talk to her. Later, as he left his building, Bela approached Eric and tried talking to him again, but he deleted her number because they were over.

## References

1. ↑ Welcome to Essex
2. ↑ Naked Party
3. ↑ Kappa
4. ↑ That Comment Tho
5. ↑ I Think I'm a Sex Addict
6. ↑ The Surprise Party
7. ↑ Cheating
8. ↑ The Truth
9. ↑ Winter is Coming
10. ↑ Frat Problems
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Short King
12. ↑ Will You Be My Girlfriend?
13. ↑ Taking Shots
14. ↑ Doppelbanger
15. ↑ The Essex College Food Workers Strike