The roots of The Goatkeeper go back longer than history can remember. It is reported that there was such a newsletter as early as the 1970s, but this fact can not been proven. Several professors and long-time students remember a The Goatkeeper series in the early or mid 1990s, though no one has been able to produce any back issues.
Perhaps the greatest era of The Goatkeeper history was in the Fall of 2003 when an anonymous student or group of students (no one has ever admitted to it) produced eleven issues of tongue-in-cheek, laugh-out-loud-as-you-read newsletters over the course of thirteen weeks. Issues were available on the campus of NOBTS as well as through an electronic format known as a website.
Unfortunately, the anonymous creator(s) of the 2003 The Goatkeeper ceased their sarcasm- and satire-filled writings with the advent of the spring semester in 2004. Another writer resumed publication with a hype-filled website, but only one and a half issues were ever produced in 2004’s spring semester.
NOBTS alum Bill E. Goat provided a wealth of humor and introspection to The Goatkeeper as the fall 2004 semester began. Goat served as the writer, editor, graphic artist, copy editor, caterer, web designer, and CEO of The Goatkeeper. According to BIll, his only reason for producing this newsletter was “for the money.” He had hopes to get extremely rich and famous through this publication in order that he could afford to live in the Courtyard Apartments which opened in the spring of 2005. Bill never lived in the Courtyards.
The current iteration of The Goatkeeper is decidedly old-school, primarily in its anonymous nature. In fact, anonymity is pretty much the only way in which it will resemble previous Goatkeepers. The current Goatkeeper can be found primarily in two locations – www.goatkeeper.blogspot.com and www.myspace.com/thegoatkeeper.
The current Goatkeeper writers and staff are not particularly skilled, and as such make no promises as to the quality of the articles or any part of The Goatkeeper. However, the normal dose of chapel speakers, made-up names, and outstanding graphics may possibly be available in each new issue. The website will continue to contain the much-expected low-quality design introduced nearly one year ago, which was created by an unknown, low-paid web designer.
Those interested in submitting material to The Goatkeeper are encouraged to do so via email (thegoatkeeper@gmail.com), though no guarantee can be made as to the fate of such submissions.
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