Students chosen to lead CT, LVM
Campus Times
May 21, 1999
The Communications Department announced its editors for the fall Campus
Times and La Verne Magazine. Sophomores Ian Gratz and Isela Peña
will serve as photography editors for the Times and Magazine,
respectively, while junior Araceli Esparza and senior Stacie N. Galang serve
as editors in chief for the Times and Magazine, respectively.
Winds of change are blowing through the University of La Verne, and
the effects are beginning to take form.
The gusts have landed a cast of new leaders in the Communications Department,
as it has named its editors for each publication for the fall 1999 semester.
On the print side of the department, junior Araceli Esparza was named editor
in chief of the Campus Times, while senior Stacie N. Galang will
serve as the La Verne Magazine editor in chief.
Taking care of the photographers for the Campus Times will be
sophomore Ian Gratz. The fall 1999 semester will be Gratz's, who has yet
to declare a major, third semester on the photography staff.
In the meantime, sophomore Isela Peña, an art major, will handle
the photography craft for La Verne Magazine.
The final decision from within the Communications Department for the
Campus Times was made by Eric Bishop, assistant professor of journalism
and the paper's adviser, Dr. George Keeler, associate professor of journalism
and adviser to La Verne Magazine, and Kevin Holland, photography
adviser.
Each selected individual must have taken elementary photography and
spent at least one semester on Campus Times or La Verne Magazine,
print or photography staff.
Although each position requires different duties over the course of
the semester, each new editor wants to refine his or her respective medium.
"I'd like to push the magazine graphically," Galang, who is
a journalism major, said. "To move it to a different level."
Galang brings experience to her position for the magazine, as this is
her second time being a publication editor. She was also the editor in chief
for Citrus College's Logos Magazine.
"I knew I had done it before, so it wasn't a question of whether
I could do it," she said. "I was honored in their confidence in
me."
Esparza, also a journalism major, will spend her sixth semester with
the Campus Times as its editor. During her first five semesters,
she has been managing editor, editorial director, features editor, assistant
managing editor and staff writer.
Speaking with passion about her field, Esparza plans to spread her love
for journalism in the newsroom.
"I would describe myself as a person who loves the paper and who
loves the field of journalism," said Esparza.
"So I'd like to persuade other people to get into that area as
well -- maybe not the love for [journalism], but the passion for writing
and being interested as a whole," she said.
"Attitude has a lot to do with it. I think if you have a good attitude
and a positive outlook on the semester, then that is going to reflect on
the staff writers.
"If you show them that you are enjoying it, then they will enjoy
it as well," she said.
