Volume XVI, Issue One
Sept. 7, 2012
The Scripps Voice Inside...
We are hiring for all positions! page 4
RNC and Women page 2
SAS Welcomes Students Back to Campus By Mikayla Raymond ‘15 SAS Media Relations Chair Hello Scripps Voice Readers! My name is Mikayla Raymond and I am this year’s SAS Media Relations Chair! It is my job to keep you all up to speed with what’s going on in SAS so that we can all participate and be aware of what’s going on in our community. SAS training began a week before classes started, and during our numerous meetings with both the executive and programming branches, as well as Dean Lee and President Bettison-Varga, we were able to discuss (and occasionally argue about) our goals for the start of the semester and how best to implement these goals. One of our biggest goals is to increase our visibility on campus. The largest aspect of this change will be an overhaul of the SAS website. Over the summer, we began designin a more attractive, useful, and better organized website to help both SAS and the student body communicate, participate, and advertise events as well as to make necessary information for CLORGS and student leaders more readily available. The site still has a very long way to go, but we have made a lot of progress and expect to have things running soon. In conjunction, I am leading a WordPress tutorial for SAS officers so that the entire SAS team can upload important information online for your viewing pleasure. In the same publicity vein, we are currently working hard to create an enticing logo for use on the SAS Website, flyers for SAS events, and t-shirts. We are also working on building our Facebook presence so that students can engage with us easily. We are confident that these changes will begin to create a closer connection between
students and SAS and help inform students about what we are currently doing on campus. Another goal is to create a set of policies for the Student Union. We want to make the space as useful for Scripps Students as possible and are currently working out procedures for reserving the conference rooms. We also want CLORGs to have the option to reserve the entire Student Union space for community events. Additionally, we are in the process of revamping the Hall Council system. We are reevaluating the existing structure and plan to make significant changes to create a more substantial role for these representatives on our campus and within SAS. The current structure of Hall Council is not facilitating the need for more student representation on SAS and more collaboration between SAS and Residential Life, Peer Mentors, Hall Directors, and RAs. If you have been using your dorm kitchen, you likely noticed some new additions! Thanks to a generous gift from last year’s SAS, every dorm kitchen is now fully stocked and ready for you to use. These lovely tools include: toasters, hand mixers, vegetable peelers, can openers, pots and pans of all sizes, silverware, strainers, knives, and more. No more running over to GJW for a cupcake tin and then back to Dorsey for a spatula! Until next time, keep yourself informed by liking our Facebook page, and by looking out for signs about Hall Council and First-Year Rep elections! You can visit the SAS Facebook page here.
Meet your Editors-in-Chief ! Hello everyone! We are Rosemary McClure (left) and Lauren Prince (right), your Editors-in-Chief for the year.
Envorionment Column: Sustainable Brews page 4
This is Lauren’s (’14) third year at The Scripps Voice and her second as Editor-in-Chief. She is a Media Studies major and a Latin American Studies minor. Lauren hopes to go into marketing or public relations after college. She is Growth Chair of Relay for Life and also a student representative on the Educational Policy Committee on the Board of Trustees. She was born and raised in Mercer Island, Washington, and loves hiking and dancing (even in the rain). Her favorite movie is Finding Nemo. Lauren loves to travel and has been to 16 countries! She claims her spirit animal is a squirrel, but Rosemary doesn’t agree. This is Rosemary’s (’13) fourth year being involved with The Scripps Voice core and her first year as Editor-in-Chief. She is an Environment, Economics, and Politics major and is also interested in feminism, anti-racism, and indigenous issues. She just returned from a year abroad in London and Australia (a semester each). She enjoys rap, scuba diving, and breakfast sandwiches. Rosemary was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Stop asking her what she will do after she graduates.
Important Dates for Seniors page 2
In response to reader feedback, we will be making a lot of changes to The Scripps Voice. We envision the paper as a student forum for opinions and lifestyles of Scripps and 5C students. As such, we have several
specific goals for the year: • An emphasis on editorials and investigative journalism rather than news, in order to reduce competition with other campus publications. • Increased readership and involvement across the 5Cs, especially interaction and dialogue online via comments our Tumblr, scrippsvoice.tumblr.com • At least one photo with every article What do you think? We want to hear from you! We have been getting some feedback that is going to help us make the paper the best it can be. So tell us! Did you like the sex column? What was your experience writing for us? Please follow us online at scrippsvoice. tumblr.com!
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