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Leadership Application Form

2009-2010 Maple Leaf Editor

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The Maple Leaf editor is responsible for the overall concept, design, management, and production of the yearbook. The editor delegates responsibilities to other staff leaders and supervises their work and works with the faculty adviser to meet the budget. Brief descriptions of yearbook staff positions are available from Gwen Miller. The editor receives a stipend from the Communication Department. Please print out this sheet, put your personal information on it and then respond to the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Or, you can copy/paste the text into an e-mail or word processing program and submit it electronically.

Please return your completed application and written responses to Duane Stoltzfus in campus mail by Friday, March 6.

1. What experience(s) do you have that will benefit you in this position?

2. In what areas do you think you will be most challenged as Maple Leaf editor?

3. What three (3) Goshen College courses have prepared you best for the position of Maple Leaf editor? Describe specific ways you think they will be helpful to you.

4. What responsibilities do you associate with the role of editor as a representative of students to the GC administration (President, Provost, Academic Dean, etc.)?

5. What are some of the general ideas of emphases - such as structure, content, design - that you have for the Maple Leaf next year?

6. What steps would you take as editor to ensure that your staff, staff's photos, and copy are campus-wide rather than favoring relatively few groups, departments and programs on campus?

Please respond to the following hypothetical situation:

7. A new student writer is complaining because each of his copy submissions has been changed significantly by the copy editor. He is discouraged and "doesn't feel like writing for the Maple Leaf anymore." He also feels that he has been given assignments that others don't want to do. He requests a meeting with you as editor. How would you address this concern?