What is a provost? “Some kind of emergency alarm-related thing?” — Maxi Rossetti “It’s a dude that’s like a vost but a professional vost, you feel me?” — Nico Hernandez-Webster “I genuinely have no clue but it sounds like sombody’s last name.” — Shreeya Tilva “A person that gives you a rundown of school events and has fun trivia. I don’t know?” — Vivian Khan “It’s a title of some kind…It’s an academic knighthood.” — Lauren Chamberlain “Provost is my boyfriend, provost is a god, provost is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.” — Jonah Sharp “Public affairs maybe…public relations?” — Rowan Tipping “The leader of…carbon-based beings? No yeah. Yeah I’m gonna go with the leader of carbon-based beings.” — Libby Lang-Smith “Some biology thing?” — Johnny Dahl Adam Fleischer, Co-Photo Editor“No idea.” Rose Williams, Copy Editor“The provost is the dean of the faculty, which explains why most students don’t know what a provost is is.” Mercury Thornton, Copy Editor“Some sort of administrator.” Photos by Alex Stanger, Adam Fleischer, Jamie Dong and Alana Melvin.