UO BOOKSTORE
Annual Meeting
TODAY
3:30 p.m. EMU FIR ROOM
Students and UO faculty should come to
nominate themselves or others for the UO
Bookstore Board of Directors.
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• $50 monthly stipend for directors.
• Great resume builder.
• Represent your peers.
• Real world experience.
Enter to win free coursebooks.
• One Raffle winner will be reimbursed for the
cost of their required Spring term coursebooks.
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Campus buzz
Thursday
"Thinking in Layers: Painting and Print
making" (lecture), 7 p.m., 115
Lawrence, 346-1444.
"Thinking in Layers: Painting & Printmak
ing" (lecture), 7 p.m., 177 Lawrence,
346-3610.
Oboe class recital, 7 p.m., 198 Music, free.
Spring term equipment swap (sponsored
by Outdoor Program), 7:30-10:30 p.m., EMU
Ballroom and EMU Gumwood Room.
Korean Student Association (meeting),
7:30-9 p.m., EMU Alsea Room.
"SenOr Mouse" (Faculty Artist Series with
Charles Dowd and Tracy Freeze), 8 p.m.,
Gerlinger Lounge, $7, $4.
Daily Emerald
appoints new
editor in chief
Brad Schmidt is the 2003-04
editor in chief after spending
one year on staff; his term as
editor begins on June 10
Robin Weber
Freelance Reporter
Although Brad Schmidt has spent
only one year on staff at the Oregon
Daily Emerald, that year was enough
for him to affirm his passion for jour
nalism and his desire to learn — and
teach — more about the craft. The
Emerald Board of Directors named
Brad Schmidt the 2003-04 editor in
chief Tuesday night.
He steps in for current editor in
chief Michael J. Kleckner, who grad
uates in June.
“I’ve only been at the Emerald a
year, but it was a very important
year,” Schmidt said. “It helped me to
grow, and I want to continue to grow
and guide other people next year.”
Schmidt’s journalism career took
flight at his high school newspaper,
where he learned “a little bit of
everything” from page design to re
porting and served as a sports editor
and columnist.
As a journalism major and com
munications studies and business
minor at the University, he joined
the Emerald staff in spring 2002 as a
community reporter. He continued
on staff in the summer as the sports
editor. By fall, he was a senior re
porter and was promoted to news
editor before accepting a Charles
Snowden internship to the Albany
Democrat-Herald and Corvallis
Gazette-Times for the spring.
Schmidt has also held leadership
positions within his fraternity, Kap
pa Sigma, and he has been a Stu
dent Alumni Relations Board mem
ber for three and a half years,
planning University activities and
career-building events.
“It will be really exciting to hand
over the reins of the paper to some
body who’s really talented and real
ly excited about news,” Kleckner
said. “I hope, and I think, that I
brought some new ideas to the pa
per, and the University community
can look forward to a very profes
sional, top-notch newspaper.”
Candidates
are evaluated
on experience,
Emerald news
room knowl
edge, journal
ism skills and
management
skills.
Deciding
who will lead a
student publi
cation is often
debatable. Al
though there were three qualified
candidates this year, Schmidt’s
mixture of experience and emotion
about journalism made him
a standout.
“He wanted to implement enter
prise reporting as well as covering
the basic ins and outs of campus,”
Emerald board chairman Chris
Frisella said. “He struck us as some
body who’s passionate about news
papers. He’s a newshound.”
Schmidt said he’s ready — and ea
ger — for the challenge.
“I’m excited for the opportunity,”
he said. “The Emerald is really im
portant to the community.”
First on his list is soaking up as
much information as he can from
Kleckner, while balancing his out-of
town internship for the remainder of
the term.
Schmidt hopes the position will be
a win-win situation for himself and
the Emerald staff, and good prepara
tion for his future career.
“Working at the Emerald gives you
a sense of what it’s like being a pro
fessional,” he said. “It’s what you
want to do, and you’re doing it every
day. It’s a great rush.”
Schmidt’s term as editor begins
June 10.
Robin Weber is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
Schmidt
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