CREATIVE EDITION: Formal encounter of Wil Courtney

The metal trash can in the Exponent conference room clanged as a pen soared through the air and struck it.

When the Exponent reporter who had last held the pen was asked about it, he began yelling.

“I have nary thrown a pen toward nobody!” reporter Wil Courtney said.

No one else, save the writer of this article, was in the room when it happened.

When the two journalists settled down for their interview, Courtney began asking questions, such as the definition of ‘indubitably.’

For those like myself without prior knowledge of this word, it means beyond question or doubt.

Had you heard from Courtney, a Purdue junior in communications, one should know of the word.

When an Exponent editor told him he didn’t know the word, Courtney grabbed his new pen.

“Don’t know the word ‘indubitably,’” Courtney said slowly, writing down the words in a notepad.

He said his goal as a journalist is to educate the public in an “unbiased way.”

“Outside of the Purdue Exponent, I largely partake in many formal gatherings where I can use the time to network and get to enchant myself with meeting several dozens of people,” he said. “These formal gatherings can vary whether they be on campus or at a denizen of alcohol.”

Curious reporters opened the door and stepped inside the conference room to watch the undoubtedly dignified interview taking place, which to two Gen-Z individuals, can be quite distracting.

“Shoo!” Courtney soon said. “Shoo!”

He picked up a small red book next to him titled “Free Press Fair Trial” and began waving it at them until they left.

Despite his responses to being asked why he threw a pen and how he responded to onlookers who he repeatedly called “riffraff,” he claimed he is “known to deal with conflict very well.”

“If somebody calls you a ‘skibidi toilet,’ which I've been called several times. When I hear that inflicted toward me, I cannot take it personally," he said. "It's something that people use to inflict ill will toward me. But by not responding, I inflict ill will toward them right back, for I am also known as ‘ill Wil.’”