A black and white stippled image of an eye lies centered within a mustard yellow rectangle. The word “unquestioned” fills the space below the artwork. 

This describes the cover of the Fall 2025 edition of The Undecided magazine, a student publication established a semester before in the spring 2025. While serving on the historian committee of the Plan II Students Association, Vijay Davis, Plan II and international relations and global studies junior, gained the inspiration to create The Undecided. He discovered an old publication of the same name in the archives of the Plan II office. 

The Undecided, which published several times per semester in a newspaper format, from 1994 to 2011, covering creative writing, prose and poetry as well as events in the Plan II community.

“(The Undecided) was a real thing, they’d have stacks of them in the Plan II office, and people would come in and read it,” Davis said. “I thought to myself (that) … nothing like this really exists anymore.” 

In spring 2025, Davis, along with friends, printed and distributed 100 copies of The Undecided, now in a magazine format. For the following semester’s issue, the team doubled its production to over 200 copies. Will Spencer, Plan II and economics junior, submitted writing to the magazine last semester and took on the role of design editor this semester. 

“The Undecided has definitely gone through some big identity changes in the past year,” Spencer said. “In the ‘90s, (it) was strictly a Plan II (publication) … but I think it was last semester when we realized that making it the Plan II magazine … puts a limit on the audience we can reach.” 

Efforts to grow the magazine’s reach include publishing work by artists beyond the Forty Acres. The Undecided’s Instagram account recently featured filmmaker Jan Winters, whose interview with The Undecided will appear in the upcoming edition, “UNDONE.” 

“(We are) staying true to the initial vision of the (publication),” Davis said. “(We make) it as accessible to people as we can but also try to capture our own individual identity, which is taking interesting stories and giving them a home.” 

Ben Catterton, Plan II and English sophomore, reads and contributes to The Undecided and said that they appreciate that The Undecided accepts their prose poetry, a writing style that can be difficult to publish elsewhere. 

“I think The Undecided responds to publication more so than it does art,” Catterton said. “And in that process (The Undecided) has brought forth a lot of really good art.” 

Davis said he estimates an audience of 150 readers and looks forward to this semester’s edition, its design changes — such as a bigger format and color printing — and its nearly 60 submissions. The team plans to host a magazine launch event on April 22 at Calamity’s Coffee, their unofficial hub. 

The Undecided witnessed changes to its structure and identity over the past decades, but its new motto best sums up its current mission and purpose.

“We take anything interesting from anyone interested,” Davis said.