NSA Elections - Darren Gleeson

As the elected editor of Veritas (2006/2007) myself and my appointed co-editor, Sarah Gray, have kept our promise to bring Veritas back from the dead, with regular monthly editions.

We promised to deliver a newspaper that both informed and entertained the students and staff, and I feel we managed to do exactly that, with the help of a dedicated team of contributors and designers.

Despite regularly calling for contributions across the university (this is a paper for EVERYONE at Napier, not just those studying journalism) I've found that people are still re-discovering the paper after its absence in 2005/2006.

As re-elected editor, with key members of the editorial staff staying on and opening up posts to new people, I intend to build on this and the (albeit slow-burning) success we've enjoyed so far this year.

I want to make this a student paper that wipes the floor with other similar publications, and helps to win awards and recognition for Napier University and the people who come here.

I want to encourage all the societies and groups to be featured in our pages, in addition to the latest student related news, thought-provoking features, arts and entertainment coverage and the latest big name music interviews (we'd like to see Edinburgh University's “The Student" get some of the people we've had this year).

There's so much more for Veritas to build on, and taking on a newspaper that was technically closed for business and re-starting it was no easy task. The few months we've had so far (up to February 2007) has seen us getting up to speed and hopefully almost perfecting the job with our first four issues (that's two more than last year already!). What I plan to do is build upon that, and make the paper bigger and better in 2007/2008.