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January 18, 2011 - Over the Edge

NASH 201 2 Part One

JESSICA N. SHAPIRO
COPY EDITOR

group of Over the Edge editors left
Ar George last Wednesday for a
5-day journalism conference in Victoria,

BC. The commute to the island was long, but the
mild weather, beautiful lights, and young jour-
nalists from around the country were welcoming.
It has been two days since NASH 74, the
eighth annual student conference hosted by Can-
adian University Press (CUP), has started and
already we have sat audience to some impressive
journalistic personalities. The keynote speaker
of the opening night was Alan Cross, the host of
the popular radio show The Ongoing History of
New Music. With new technology coming in, he
said, and old print traditions moving out, we are
the future of not a dying world of journalism, but
a changing one. The message he seemed most
eager to share with us was this: Do something
every week that scares the shit out of you.

Hanna Petersen
Over the Edge

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John Hall
Over the Edge

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The next day Jodie Emery, the wife of the incar-
cerated ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery, presented a
lecture on her life as an activist, magazine editor,
and wife. Her main message was to ‘speak truth
to power’, and as the lecture promptly ended at
4:20pm, she bid us off to celebrate the day. Final-
ly, Anna Maria Tremonti wrapped up the second
successful day at NASH 74. The history of her
career as a radio and television journalist was an
inspiration to the audience, as she explained to us
her journey from student journalist to the host of
the popular CBC 1 show, The Current.

Stay tuned for the second part of this Fea-
tures spread in the next issue, where the last two
days of this conference will be recapped. From
the schedule it looks like it will hold another host
of creative and motivational role models in the
world of journalism.

Jessica Shapiro
Over the Edge

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Jodie Emery, wife of the famed ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery, speaks to a packed house about her journey as a marijuana activist, her time as
an editor at Cannabis Culture Magazine, and her husband's extradition to U.S. federal prison for selling cannabis seeds nationally and abroad.