It is a month filled with roses, promises, and words of affection. However, beneath this revelry, there is a more uncomfortable reality: love, when not tempered with a sense of accountability, can easily lead to manipulation. In a world where love is easily equated with loyalty, there is a danger of a line being blurred between these two ideals.
This February 2026 issue of Bagwis looks into this conflict of ideals. With our theme “Twisted Love,” we aim to explore how blind adoration, be it of leaders, institutions, or even established ideas, can lead us astray in our sense of accountability. In halls of power and in the halls of our own institution, we are reminded that love of community, country, and truth should not lead us to abandon our right to question.
We, as campus journalists, are not here to romanticize reality but to engage it. After all, journalism is the act of love in its most radical form: the refusal to look away.
We ask the reader in the following pages to ponder the kind of love that buil
