Nov. 15, 2004 • 6 - 7 p.m.
Witherspoon Student Center
Student Senate ChambersCALL TO ORDER at 6:10 p.m.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES (CLICK HERE)
OLD BUSINESS
None
NEW BUSINESS
1. Hiring of Nubian Message editor (CLICK HERE for qualifications/process)
Applicant, Johnathan Brunson, spoke in summary of his position paper, outlining his goals established for his term come Spring 2005. Johnathan was given 10 minutes to do so, followed by a Q&A session with the board members where he addressed concerns of timeliness and publication neutrallity.
The Board deliberated for 45 minutes over the hiring of Brunson. After this debate, he was asked to enter the room where the Board proposed its motion to hire him only if he agreed to share co-editorship of the Nubian for his term due to his graduating in May 2005. Also, the Board proposed
that the two-semester experience requirement be dropped to 1-semester. Mr. Brunsen agreed to those termsJohnathan left the room and Executive Session continued .
Open Session
The Board presented the motion and, with Johnathan's support, passed the motion. Out of the 10 voting Board members, 9 agreed, 0 disagreed, and 1 abstained the motion. The Board voted to open the co-editor position for one week (until Monday, Nov. 22) at which point the Board would meet to hire a co-editor.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
EXECUTIVE SESSION
The Student Media Board may adjourn into executive session to discuss matters of litigation, potential litigation or personnel.ADJOURN
Next meeting TBA.
REPORTS
Copies will be available at the meeting.1. Agromeck, Josh Bassett, editor (no report)
2. Americana, Nathaniel Horner, editor (CLICK HERE)
3. Nubian Message, Robert White, editor (CLICK HERE)
4. Technician, Matt Middleton, editor (CLICK HERE )
5. Windhover, Brian Darragh, editor (CLICK HERE)
6. WKNC, Jamie Proctor, general manager (no report)
Agromeck • Josh Bassett, editor
No Report
Americana • Nathaniel Horner, editor
CLICK HERE for PDF version
Nubian Message • Robert White, editor
Production Status: I am working on giving the design editor, Jared Legrand and managing editor, Johnathan Brunson more responisblity with the actual layout. Jared usually lays out two pages to four pages and gives me feedback on how the rest of the paper should look for that issue.
Announcements: We are looking for writers and photographers to join our staff for next semester.
Coverage Issues: The only coverage issues are coordinating interviews and article coverage. We working on increasing our communication amongst the staff to insure we cover all of our stories each week. We will be more stringent on editors in developing their story ideas and keeping contact with their writers.
Positive difference at N.C. State: We continue to use the Nubian Message as a medium to educate the students, faculty, and staff about the issues and events important to African Americans at N.C. State. We also use the Nubian as a tool to educate the students about the facilities and resources available to them at N.C. State. We have also added public service announcements and event announcements to inform students about upcoming events and issues of direct importance to them.
Technician • Matt Middleton, editor
Nashville excursion
Four members of our newspaper editorial board took part in a four-day trip to Nashville to participate in the annual ACP/CMA Convention. They missed two days of school, as well as two production nights – during the election, no less – and hopefully learned valuable journalistic lessons. In Nashville, they attended seminars geared toward their specific role in the paper and also enjoyed some bonding time, as three of the four people
that went are underclassmen – the future of the paper.At the convention, the Associated Collegiate Press awarded three Student Media members national individual awards.
Thushan Amarasiriwardena, honorable mention, news spread
Thushan Amarasiriwardena, first place, infographic
Taylor Templeton, first place, feature photo
Rob Bradley, third place, sports photoBest of Collegiate Design
Four Technician members were recognized and published in the College Media Advisers' "The Best of Collegiate Design."
Thushan Amarasiriwardena, fourth place, advertisement
Win Bassett, third place, feature page
Thushan Amarasiriwardena and Taylor Templeton for feature page
Thushan Amarasiriwardena, Taylor Templeton and Carie Windham for editorial/opinion page
Thushan Amarasiriwardena, second place sports pageRED
We will publish our third installment of RED tomorrow; this time, we did our annual basketball preview tabloid, and more important, we made money on it. Kudos to the ad department on that.Ad sales
It’s very frustrating that our ad sales continue to fluctuate. Take the first two days of this week as a case study. Monday: more than 40 percent ads. Tuesday: One (1!!) display ad (1/8 page) was sold. I realize this is the byproduct of breaking in almost an entirely new staff, but I hope to see the staff gain some consistencies in its selling
and ready to parlay that into a profitable spring.Windhover • Brian Darragh, editor
Budget/Expenses: Current status of the budget is on-track with our spending schedule. As of Nov. 1, 2004, the only expenditure has been our advertisements/flyers. Because of the publication schedule, the heavy bulk of our budget will not be used until approximately February.
Personnel: Kim Tran, our webmaster, has done an outstanding job with the new Web site. Electronic submission has been made monumentally easier because of her hard work. Josh, design editor, and I are working with current submissions to solidify a theme for the magazine. I have approximately 15 literary staff members (voluntary positions – unpaid) interested in helping with literary selections next semester.Advertisements: Windhover is being solicited all over campus, and off campus. Flyers have been posted in “high traffic” areas on campus; presentations have been made to several classes and professors about submissions; off campus – flyers have been handed out and placed in places like Global Village, Cup a’ Joe’s, Reader’s Corner, Bruegger’s Bagels, etc. Josh and I have received a significant volume of submissions (ie, both iterary and design submissions).
Goals: We look to be on-track for achieving our goal of an earlier publication date. Things are moving along better than expected.WKNC • Jamie Proctor, general manager
No report
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