NEWS RELEASE
Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu)
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
http://www.nsula.edu/news
5/15/2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES – Four Northwestern State University students have been chosen to head campus media outlets for the 2007-2008 school year.
Lela Coker of Longview, Texas, will serve as editor of the campus yearbook, the Potpourri. Benjamin Kitterlin of Natchitoches will be station manager of the campus radio station, KNWD-FM. Andi McKay of Covington will be editor of Argus, the campus literary magazine. Kera Simon of Kaplan will be editor of the campus newspaper, The Current Sauce.
Coker, a junior journalism major, was a member of the Potpourri staff last year and a contributor the year before.
“My goal is to provide the most accurate coverage possible of the entire school year,” said Coker. “The yearbook should be diverse and reflect the different groups on campus. It is something that lasts forever. I know I have a huge responsibility to try to capture all the events that take place and provide something that people will pick up as a way of remembering those events all over again.”
Kitterlin, a sophomore general studies major, hopes to build a station that is comparable to area commercial radio stations. He hopes to actively promote the station, add news and talk programming and create public service commercials to promote university events.”
“I want things to run as smoothly and sound as professional as any other station,” he said. “We’re going to be an alternative source of music, but we will also try to get the word out of what is going on around campus.”
McKay, a senior English major, takes over a publication that has been selected as one of the top three campus literary magazines in the nation for the past three years. She wants to maintain quality by getting more students to contribute works and having an attractive looking magazine.
“I’d like to get more participation and get people to submit work who wouldn’t normally do it,” she said. We need to make more aware of Argus. A good design is also an important element. If you have a design that no one wants to pick up, it will be hard to get people to read it.”
Simon, a sophomore journalism major with a news/editorial concentration, has served as a reporter and news editor for the paper.
“I would like to see the Current Sauce cover more subject matter on campus,” she said. “I also plan to focus on a redesign of the paper to draw in more readers.
Simon also plans to improve the paper’s organization and recruit more students to cover campus news and events.