Join Nubian Message, the sentinel of the N.C. African American community since 1992, for a panel discussion on Diversity in the Media. The event will be Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Washington Sankofa room of Witherspoon Student Center.

The Student Media Board, which hires and provides input to the collective Student Media in accordance with our constitution, contains three student body representatives elected at-large in a student body election. Nominations are being accepted now through Monday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. Any students interested in running for the Student Media Board should visit the NCSU Student Government Board of Elections for more information.

Applications for Student Media leaders for the 2012-2013 academic year opened Jan. 18. A position package from each applicant was due Thursday, Feb. 23 at noon. The next two steps in the application process are the candidate forum and advisory board meeting.

The final step is the full STUDENT MEDIA BOARD MEETING on Tuesday, March 13 at 7 p.m. in Witherspoon 201. During the meeting, a member from each individual advisory board will make a recommendation to the Student Media Board. The Board may then accept the recommendation and hire that candidate, reject the recommendation and interview the candidate(s), or choose to hire no candidate and reopen applications.

On Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m. all applicants will appear at a public CANDIDATE FORUM to answer questions about their vision for Technician, Nubian Message, Agromeck, Windhover, WKNC 88.1 FM and the Student Media Business Office. The forum, in the Walnut Room in Talley Student Center, is open to anyone who wants to attend.

Student Media's spring advertising supplement, N.C. State Living, is available in the Feb. 23 issue of Technician and as a downloadable PDF. The semi-annual publication features articles from Bob Larson's COM 316 Public Relations Writing course.