Staff & Contributors
This is where we wanted to post information about the captains of industry, luminary writers and editors, and revolutionary innovators behind Tiger. Unfortunately, we don’t have any of those, but here is our staff:
Chairman – Steven Liss
Steven is the 127th incarnation of the Great Tiger Spirit. When the preceding chairman, Dave, graduated and so passed from this world to the real world, the call went out to the five corners of the earth to find the new chairman. Tiger’s editorial board eventually discovered Steven in a humble fishing village outside Boston. He was a youth of only twenty summers, but the Tiger Spirit was strong in him. The accumulated knowledge of his predecessors lives on within Steven, and he has vowed to use his infinite wisdom and wit to help Tiger transcend the crude bounds of college comedy to reach a higher plane of humor.
Contact: steven@tigermag.com
President – Brian Edwards
Brian started with Tiger looking for a way to pay his way through Princeton. He had no choice once his scholarship from the United Negro College Fund was revoked on a formality. Brian brings executive experience to the Tiger team from his past employment as Human Resources Manager for the Mendoza cartel of Colombia, where he was primarily responsible for anonymous henchman recruitment. As part of the Japan-South America gangster exchange program, Brian transferred to Osaka where he quickly moved his way up the ranks of boss Tanaka’s syndicate. Even more notorious than his fierce skills with the Katana were his ability to turn a rhyme. His then rapid transition from rapper to rapper/actor has been chronicled in the best-selling Bust a Cap in Dat: The Brian Edwards Story.
Contact: brian@tigermag.com
Co-Editor-In-Chief – Myra Gupta
Myra was “Made in Japan,” as her parents often awkwardly remind her at inopportune moments, the angst from which has fueled many a comic endeavor and her participation in the illustrious (and illustrated!) Tiger Magazine. She likes puns and robots, but not put together. Her major contribution to Tiger is adding more gender/ethnic diversity than Jim’s android-gynous biweekly mani-pedi, and the accompanying tax breaks don’t hurt. Myra is also Tiger’s foreign correspondent (read: spy. I mean no, wait, crap), scouring the corners of the globe for more material with which to make fun of politics, culture, daytime soap operas, knitting patterns, and Jim. But really, she’s not a spy.
Contact: myra@tigermag.com
Co-Editor-In-Chief – Jim Valcourt
Jim only writes for the Tiger to work off the debts from his crippling addiction to chartreuse eye shadow. This strategy is marginally ineffective, since the position is unpaid. He originally worked as a spy, but his budding career at MI6 was cut short by a tragic case of restless leg syndrome. Jim spends his free time moonlighting as a psychotherapy test subject, sharpening his crowbar for the impending zombie apocalypse, and writing the “Alluring Lures” filler column for Bass Fisherman’s Quarterly. (Special note: we used a picture here that Jim’s mother could be proud of, but you can click here to see Jim’s true nature).
Contact: jim@tigermag.com
Head Writer – Dan Abromowitz
Dan has got so much game, he poops dice. He’s so fly, it’s like that Jeff Goldblum movie, The Fly, but every day. He parties so hard that the time he isn’t spending partying he spends in court, appealing the noise complaints he’s received. He has got so much bling, his nickname is Bling Crosby. He is so confident, people generally respond to him positively, but he is not confident enough that they are put off by him, because he is also so socially conscious. He’s got so much swagger that people are like, “Damn.” He has titanium bones and eats rocks for breakfast, and you can take that to the bank.
Contact: dan@tigermag.com
VP Marketing – Rodrigo Menezes
Rodrigo’s writing has been heralded by the New York Times as “obscene[ly]” funny and by the London Times as “terribl[y]” thought provoking. The New York Book Review considered his works “just plain awful[ly]” hilarious and Rodrigo has been known to describe his own work as “a toast to the grand institution of satire writing.” Various critics and authorities on and off campus have described his pieces in The Tiger as “offensive.” Rodrigo is certain that they mean this in an avant-garde sort of way. When not writing for Tiger under pseudonyms (which may or may not be related to Fox-sitcom Arrested Development), he can be found contributing to affirmative action quotas in other groups on campus.
Contact: rodrigo@tigermag.com
Editor/Writer – Dennard Dayle
Despite being declared legally insane in the late nineties, Dennard developed minor delusions of literary skill and major delusions of being funny. While evading mental health authorities, he nails articles to the door of the Tiger Magazine Office despite the best efforts of campus security. If sighted, please send a report to the Nurse Ratched Home for Slicin’ and Shockin’. May or may not be rabid. According to this picture, Dennard is also either an evil genius or a guest at one of P Diddy’s white parties…or both.
Editor/Writer – Eric Peñalver
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and surrender to the sweet & salty sensation that is Eric Peñalver. It takes only four ingredients – popcorn, sunflower oil, sugar, and salt – to enjoy this most astonishing of company. Four simple, natural ingredients to enjoy the company of a man who can best be described as a carnival of crunch. A festival of flavor. A celebration of salty sweetness. A party of palatability. A soiree of scrumptiousness… Give him a crunch and decide for yourself. Remember, Eric Peñalver: The Perfect Balance of Sweet and Salty.*
*This description may or may not have been lifted from the back of a bag of Trader Joe’s Kettle Corn
Editor/Writer – Stephen Stolzenberg
Stephen (von Germanberg) was engineered as part of a secret East German military project bent on creating the ultimate Olympic Scrabble team. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, his parents escaped to America with Stephen still inside his mother’s womb. Stephen never saw the point in playing Scrabble competitively, because the English version is far easier to play than the German (in English Scrabble each player receives 7 letter tiles. In German, each player receives 50). He has instead devoted his loosely associative mind to such important pursuits as writing articles for the Tiger and executing pyramid schemes. Click here to see Stephen prove that Tiger beats Lion.