The Editor in Chief position had one candidate Josh Boyter who put forward a platform of sustainability, accountability, and leadership. After a two minute platform pitch and several minutes of questions and answers the students in attendance voted Josh to lead their newspaper for the coming academic year.
The other positions that were filled were the Copy Editor, News Editor, Opinions Editor, Arts Editor, and Sports Editor. Many of the candidates that were successful in their election had similar areas of focus which included writing more on what student societies are doing, using each other and university resources to assist them, making the newspaper sustainable, and additional communication methods with students and the community for news items.
The Editor in Chief also gave her annual report at the end of the meeting which highlighted that there were over 100 contributors to the Gazette this year and that each contributor averaged 3 articles. This is impressive and in the coming years hopefully the Gazette will increase the number of contributors.
So please take this as my personal plea to all Dalhousie students to get involved and write articles for the Gazette on areas that they are passionate about (whether it is the band that is playing at the Rebecca Cohn next week or what the Ruby Team is doing), the Gazette will appreciate your assistance in providing a newspaper to students that they want to read.
And remember - this is your university experience so make it a good one!
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