What is What If?
In the 1830s, the Granville Literary and Theological Institution had grown large enough that societies and social cabals had begun to develop. Over the years, the Institution's financial hurdles and lack of substance aimed towards an imminent failure. Graciously enough, one Ohioan farmer - William Denison, decided to make a $10,000 grant keeping Granville Literary and Theological Institution open for classes.
In midst of such an expansive time for Denison, young intellects took the opportunity to shape what would become one of the nation's top liberal arts schools. Building these groups came with an overwhelming amount of competition and rivalry. Social and academic societies began to develop all in hopes to play an integral role in creating Denison's undeveloped roots.
Few students saw this as an opportunity to improve the school's social landscape by breaking away from Denison's concrete form of development and thus often were outcasted as University mishaps or thorns in administrative sides. As a direct reaction to administrative growth and lack of connection with the students, the previously dismissed outcasts had found refuge in exposing the hegemonic corruption growing along with the fame of the University.
In 1910, this group of young artists and intellects gathered to form one of Denison's first arcane literary societies. While sneering at Denison's latent, it was found within this society that deception could be used for the good; it was in fact tool a to end organizations not worthy of Denison's seal.
Unfortunately for the recipient, our acts of reverence often ended with confusion and disarray. By acting as one organization mocking another, the society caused conflict away from their immediate surroundings and thus comfortably placed themselves at the throne of Denison's social scene.
Upon growth of this literary society came attention from national groups and offers to onset a new journey for an official greek contract. As the founding father's of What If left Denison, the organization's youth could not help but to accept institutionalization as their fate.....
One hundred years after its initial creation the giant of mutiny has risen again. In combination with discovery of archaic documents, wrong doings from administrative figures and villainy from the student population, the new era jesters have found redemption in their own undiscovered roots.
Hello again.
By providing you with our knowledge and the unspoken history of Denison, we hope that you too can take part in a social movement that has yet to begin. You attend a private institution where political dynamics have moved away from a democratic community, and unfortunately the Denison general population has not worked to bring power back to the most pertinent group of people --- the students. You mustn’t let the power above you scare you, and you mustn’t let it control you.
By abiding my Denison’s system in place, you have become a part of an institution that has formed its exterior image as a diverse and accepting community, but unfortunately, an institution who's interior relationships are completely marginalized and broken. Denison’s most important constituents have been successful in their scant schemes: the president, the board members and the trustees all have integral relationships with the University, yet hide under a veil of personal prosperity; one in which they benefit while we as a community watch. It is time to defy your surroundings and demand the transparency Denison so unwillingly aims for.
Today is a day, tomorrow is new
Midnight marauders, live for virtue
To be benign is divine, but there are only a few
This is not a request, nor is it a clue
If you have done yourself wrong, may corruption ensue
You don’t see us, but we see you
Jeers,
The What Ifs