Get to know the Echo Staff: Milo Lani Caputo

Milo Lani-Caputo `23 is The Colby Echo’s ever-reliable Arts and Entertainment and Opinions editor. The Colby Echo sat down with him to learn about his editing career, his anger towards the Amish, and so much more. 

Q: What’s your favorite part about working for The Colby Echo?

A: My favorite part is layout. The atmosphere is so friendly. We are all united by a common goal which is putting out a paper, which is great. There’s all kinds of lovely drama and gossip and whatnot which we busy ourselves with. We get to dress up and drink ... orange juice. 

Q: Hmm … what’s your least favorite part?

A: My least favorite is 11:55 on Monday night when I don’t have my article in and Conall (the Lead Copy Editor of The Colby Echo) is disappointed in me.* 

Q: Don’t worry, Conall is disappointed in all of us. Where are you originally from?

A: I’m originally from Whitefield, Maine. 

Q: Oh, a Mainer. Favorite thing about your hometown?

A: The Amish people are hilarious because they can’t read newspapers. Not that they’re not able to, they’re just not allowed to. They don’t own their own washers and dryers but they have no qualms about using their neighbors electronic appliances. Not my house, ‘cause we don’t take that sh*t, but they use other people’s freezers and stuff. It’s cheating, I think. Their horses sh*t all over the road. 

Q: Wow, you’re very passionate about the Amish.

A: Well, I know them better than most. I speak with the Amish on a pretty regular basis. 

Q: Okay then. Favorite dining hall?

A: It was Foss, but since we can’t control the portions this year I’m back on Dana. I like curly fries, first and foremost. I like the mozzarella flatbreads too, those are really delicious. Sometimes they’re skimpy, though. 

Q: How do you come up with ideas for your opinions articles?

A: Well, uh, um, ooh - well - WAIT, don’t put all my onomatopoeias in. Well, I’m a very passionate guy, so I get very excited or enraged about things and then I write about it. Yeah. 

Q: If you could tell the Colby student population one thing, what would it be?

A: Stop whining about everything. Oh my goodness. All I hear from my fellow students is that “Oh, this class is so hard and this professor is so bad,” and it just makes me sad because these kids are limiting themselves because they don’t see their own capacity and they pawn it off on the wrong things. 

*Conall claims he actually loves that Milo is the singular editor who tells him when articles are late.**

**Sarah Warner has never been so communicative***.

***Sarah Warner takes offense to this accusation and wishes to be excluded from this narrative.