Students, faculty elected to UO Bookstore Board
Voters sent six University Bookstore Board of Directors candidates into winners’ seats , while two candidates tied for a two-year graduate student position.
J.L. Stiggins and Daniel Mackay have tied for the position with 42 votes each, and the current board will determine the winner.
Nicole Wickswat and Kelly O’Brien have each earned sophomore seats with 59 and 48 votes, respectively. Tyler Lewis was elected to a student at-large position with 62 votes. ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert, Greek Life Coordinator Shelley Sutherland and graduate student Jessica Beaudoin, who all ran unopposed, took the officer of administration position, faculty-at-large position and a one-year graduate student position, respectively.
A total of 193 ballots were cast in the two-day election.

–Jared Paben

Emerald names summer editor in chief
The Oregon Daily Emerald Board of Directors appointed Jared Paben as the paper’s summer editor in chief.
Paben, currently a senior news reporter, will fill the editor in chief role from June 8– the end of current Editor Brad Schmidt’s term — until the fall, when Editor-elect Jennifer Sudick will return for the yearly duties.
Three candidates sought the summer editor in chief position, and Board Chairman Chris Frisella said Paben’s news values and management philosophy made him the strongest candidate.
Paben, a junior pre-journalism major, has previous journalistic experience with community newspapers and he recently received first-place recognition from the Society of
Professional Journalists and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association for his reporting.
“I was impressed by the breadth of experience he will bring to the job and the ideas he has for maintaining the high quality of the paper over the summer,” Frisella said.
Paben said he is ready to embrace the responsibility.
“I’m both a bridge from this year’s administration to next year’s administration, but at the same time I’d like to bring my own flavor to the paper,” he said.
Paben first began working for the Emerald as a freelancer last summer. He joined the staff in the fall as a news reporter, and by winter term he was promoted to senior news reporter.
“I’m looking forward to giving students on campus insightful news this summer,” he said. “Something to pick up and read.”