For Halloween this year, I was Kelly. It was actually kind of a lame costume, as nobody knew who I was (in the end I would just say "your mum"; it got too hard trying to explain the shoes thing).
We don't have any fashion editor(s). As far as I'm aware though, the policy is not to reject any article; anything sent to ussu.thestag@surrey.ac.uk is forwarded to me for copy-editing. I don't have access to that account though. I can understand that the design editor could've rejected your article on 'Mishaps of Jennifer Lee' since she's the one who writes that, but I see no reason why your current article should've been rejected.
As for bylines, if the author doesn't include it in the document itself, we don't bother to look. In your case though you did include it, but the credit wasn't added. That's a failure at design desk / my end.
The person who writes Campus Boy isn't the same as last year. I didn't tell you this.
To be honest, I do think that there is a lot that could be improved with the newspaper this year, including copy-editing. One of the major things that we've been working on is to have a strong online presence. Evil minions are sweating away and hamsters are running around in giant hamster balls to prepare for a launch of The Stag website in 2010. In the interim, I've tried to make the ussu.co.uk/thestag minisite more useful, in the sense that people can actually read content online now on it.
Loved your Disneyfication piece, although I do think that the Marmite croissant recipe was in bad taste.
Ankur, if you don't have any fashion editors, then who were the sweet girls claiming to be so??
I never submit to ussu.thestag, I always send directly to the section editor, and they can forward it to the copy editor for perusal for inclusion if they feel it's appropriate.
I know Campus Boy is written by a different person now. It was sort of a rhetorical question.. :-) But I do think his change encompasses the whole shift that the paper has taken, now that past writers have graduated or previous section editors have become redundant. I know that's nothing to do with anyone on the commitee at the moment, and it's out of your control who chooses to submit and who doesn't. But the old Campus Boy would never have revelled in Fetish and Halloween nights the way that the current one does. And I don't believe that the Jennifer Lee fiction pieces accurately represent the student experience either, although this is my personal opinion and I don't intend to speak on behalf of the whole campus. I do enjoy reading The Stag, and I will continue to write for it. It's true that part of my bitterness stems from the fact that I wasn't invited to be a more integral part of it this year. But hey, that's life, isn't it.
Also, it was a Vegemite recipe. I think that Marmite is in bad taste. ;)
Ankur, if you don't have any fashion editors, then who were the sweet girls claiming to be so??
Dunno. We certainly don't have any fashion editors. We have a few writers who contribute fashion articles, with a different set of people contributing articles for each issue. The fashion pages fall under features editor Mariam Nasir, so any articles should be sent to her, not anyone who claims to be 'fashion editor'.
How exactly did you miss out on The Stag AGM? Did they send the email to only those who signed up for the mailing list during Freshers' Fayre?
Re: Fashion Editors, in the Fresher's issue the fashion girls had their email addresses included. I submitted to them, telling them to forward my article onto Mariam if they liked it. Yeepp.
And no, neither myself, nor the other girls on my course (aside from Mariam) were contacted about the AGM this year. We feel it's a conspiracy.
I think they included the email with the intention of getting feedback on whatever they did, instead of seeking new articles. Mariam remains the one who actually vets the articles.
Terrible mismanagement on part of the transition team if they botched up sending information about the AGM.
Now that you mention it though, I just noticed that the film, music, literature editors haven't been elected! During the AGM, only an all-encompassing arts editor was elected. Over the period of a few weekly meetings though, she just handed out control of those editors to other people and became the dance editor.
As for bylines, if the author doesn't include it in the document itself, we don't bother to look. In your case though you did include it, but the credit wasn't added. That's a failure at design desk / my end.
The person who writes Campus Boy isn't the same as last year. I didn't tell you this.
To be honest, I do think that there is a lot that could be improved with the newspaper this year, including copy-editing. One of the major things that we've been working on is to have a strong online presence. Evil minions are sweating away and hamsters are running around in giant hamster balls to prepare for a launch of The Stag website in 2010. In the interim, I've tried to make the ussu.co.uk/thestag minisite more useful, in the sense that people can actually read content online now on it.
Loved your Disneyfication piece, although I do think that the Marmite croissant recipe was in bad taste.
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I never submit to ussu.thestag, I always send directly to the section editor, and they can forward it to the copy editor for perusal for inclusion if they feel it's appropriate.
I know Campus Boy is written by a different person now. It was sort of a rhetorical question.. :-) But I do think his change encompasses the whole shift that the paper has taken, now that past writers have graduated or previous section editors have become redundant. I know that's nothing to do with anyone on the commitee at the moment, and it's out of your control who chooses to submit and who doesn't. But the old Campus Boy would never have revelled in Fetish and Halloween nights the way that the current one does. And I don't believe that the Jennifer Lee fiction pieces accurately represent the student experience either, although this is my personal opinion and I don't intend to speak on behalf of the whole campus. I do enjoy reading The Stag, and I will continue to write for it. It's true that part of my bitterness stems from the fact that I wasn't invited to be a more integral part of it this year. But hey, that's life, isn't it.
Also, it was a Vegemite recipe. I think that Marmite is in bad taste. ;)
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Dunno. We certainly don't have any fashion editors. We have a few writers who contribute fashion articles, with a different set of people contributing articles for each issue. The fashion pages fall under features editor Mariam Nasir, so any articles should be sent to her, not anyone who claims to be 'fashion editor'.
How exactly did you miss out on The Stag AGM? Did they send the email to only those who signed up for the mailing list during Freshers' Fayre?
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And no, neither myself, nor the other girls on my course (aside from Mariam) were contacted about the AGM this year. We feel it's a conspiracy.
Not really.
But it would have been nice to be asked.
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Terrible mismanagement on part of the transition team if they botched up sending information about the AGM.
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I would not have been a TRANSITION team if we HAD received information about the AGM. Ha.
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Now that you mention it though, I just noticed that the film, music, literature editors haven't been elected! During the AGM, only an all-encompassing arts editor was elected. Over the period of a few weekly meetings though, she just handed out control of those editors to other people and became the dance editor.
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