Spectator Editorial Board Application

Background and responsibilities

The Spectator Editorial Board is the official organ of the newspaper’s views. Its members discuss campus issues at biweekly meetings, come to consensus opinions, and articulate those opinions in staff editorials published daily. Each member is expected to write one editorial every two weeks and to comment regularly, both in meetings and by e-mail, on proposed editorials.

Meetings are held Sundays at 2:00 p.m. and Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. If you have a schedule conflict with either or both of these times, please indicate as such on your application.

Please complete the application below and e-mail it to Opinion Editor Miriam Krule at mrk2119@columbia.edu. If you have any questions about the board, please feel free to contact Miriam or Deputy Editorial Board Editor Brendan Price at bmp2111@columbia.edu.

Application

(1) Provide your name, school, class year, and major(s)/concentration(s).
(2) With what groups are you, or have you been, involved on campus?

Questions three through six may be answered in a single essay or in a few short answers.

(3) What writing experience do you have?
(4) Why do you want to join the Editorial Board?
(5) Name a few staff editorials you thought were strong and a few that were weak. Why?
(6) Describe a campus issue you would like to see the Editorial Board address this semester, and explain your own position on this issue.

In addition, please attach a (short) writing sample. This needn’t be anything original; something you wrote for a class or another publication (or even a blog) is fine.

Good luck!