Calling all students: Join The New Hampshire

Spring is on its way, and with it comes a new staff to run The New Hampshire. Many of our current editors and writers will move up to higher positions or keep their current ones, but with seven seniors on the masthead leaving to graduate, there are openings to fill and I'm asking for any interested students to submit applications.

Applications are due by this Friday, March 12 before students depart for spring break. You can pick one up off the clipboard in our office, MUB 156, and drop it off in the yellow folder right next to the clipboard. You can apply for any position, regardless of previous experience, and the new executive editor will choose his or her staff after he or she is elected on March 22.

This is not a call for help; we have excellent underclassmen ready to step up into demanding positions. But we do want to make it clear that without our key volunteers and contributors – you, the students – our paper wouldn't exist.

While this message is perhaps most directed to journalism and English students who are currently uninvolved with The New Hampshire, we also welcome all majors to apply for positions. Our managing editor, Nate Batchelder, is a student in WSBE and has been part of TNH for all three years that he's been a student. Our design editor, Christine Hawkins, is an International Affairs dual major with European Cultural Studies and won Rookie of the Year of all student organizations last year for her work with layout and design. One of our top writers, Thomas Gounley, is an Environmental Conservation Studies major.

The message is this: You can help us, no matter what your major.

I'm proud of what we have accomplished this year as a staff, and I hope that many of you students have enjoyed much of what you've read or seen on our website since September. I have no doubt next year's staff will be capable of upholding our strong tradition in the paper's 100th year, but they can't do it alone.

So if you've written a story for TNH in the past, apply for a staff writer's position. If you've noticed a few too many misspelled words or articles with shoddy writing, apply for an editing position. We make no claims that we're the best journalists on campus just because we're part of the newspaper. If you have an interest in what we do, please apply. It's a great way to make a difference on campus.

Cameron Kittle
Executive Editor