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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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