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Luke Lapp
AD Communications | NUGSS

B onjour a tous. Je me présente

comme votre directeur associat de
communications pour NUGSS. Nous sommes
le deuxiéme semestre de l'année 2014/2015
et je suis certain que nous aurons bien profité
ala fin.

Il n’y a que quelque temps depuis j’ai
commencé travailler avec le groupe sur
NUGSS et déja nous avons tellement
avancé avec des idées fraiches et 4 vos
intéréts. Bientét on luttera avec les
devoirs et les nouveaux cours, mais
n’oubliez jamais ce que nous vous offrons
chez NUGSS : l’avis, l’aide, et l’amitié.

A trés bientét!

Welcome. I am introducing myself as your

new Associate Director of Communications
for NUGSS. Now that we are in the 2nd
semester of the 2014/2015 year at UNBC, I
am certain that together we will have made
good headway by the end of it. It has only
been a couple of months since I started
working with the group at NUGSS, but we
have already delved deep into new and
exciting ideas which will benefit students.
As we struggle with homework and get

the hang of our courses, do not forget that
NUGSS is here and ready to help, always
willing to offer: advice, help, and friendship.

See you soon!
FS

nugss

northern undergraduate
student society

Over The kdge at NASH 77

Kelley Ware
Multimedia Coordinator

Fe" January 14 to 18, student journalists
all over the country flocked to Ottawa for
the 77th annual Canadian University Press
conference (NASH for short). It was full of
informative sessions and amazing keynotes.
It was also full of a lot of complaining.

For a group of people that idolizes foreign
correspondents who can often live out of a
bag for substantial amounts of time, student
journalists seem to like their luxuries.

It did not take long for the complaining

to start. On the first night, during the
keynote by Peter Mansbridge, conference
attendees discovered that breakfast was
not included. This launched the hashtag
#breakfastgate, with people tweeting their
displeasure. It became quite a scandal.

Ignoring the habit of people to add the
suffix “gate” to things, this type of reaction
surprised me. I recalled reading about the
lack of breakfast on the conference website
when I went to check what meals were being
covered. The fact that a group of journalists
failed to research what type of meals were
being served was a particularly delicious
bit of irony. The other major scandal of the
conference came at the end. Everyone was
very excited to attend the gala which took
place at the Canadian Museum of Nature
and was titled “Dancing with Dinos”. When
we arrived, however, we learned that the
event was three floors above the locked
dinosaur wing. Soon, and quite expectedly,
#dinosaurgate started spreading.

The conference was an amazing experience,
and it is a pretty big first world problem to be
mad about a lack of breakfast and dinosaurs.

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