(Reprinted with permission from the Jan. 29 Cavalier Daily.)

Cavalier Daily staff members entered Jefferson Hall at 9 a.m. Saturday to choose the newspaper’s 112th staff and emerged from the stuffy room 16 hours later, having elected third-year College student John A. Clark editor-in-chief for the 2001-2002 term.

Clark, an economics major from Alexandria, will be serving his second term on the Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily. He previously served as chief financial officer.

Clark and the other four Managing Board members outlined numerous goals for their term, including expanding the diversity of news coverage, making the paper more aesthetically pleasing and improving recruiting efforts.

"We’ll be reviewing the way this paper looks and feels and how its content reads," Clark said. "Our goal is to increase readership of The Cavalier Daily and in turn encourage informed participation in the issues that affect the University."

Staff members also elected third-year College student Jennifer Schaum as the paper’s next executive editor. Schaum is an English major, also from Alexandria.

Sam Le, a third-year College student from Annandale, will serve as the paper’s next managing editor. Le is an economics major.

Third-year Engineering student Jonathan Erdman, a computer science major from Livingston, N.J., will fill the chief financial officer post.

Second-year College student Adam Blumenkrantz will be the paper’s next operations manager. Blumenkrantz is an economics and government major from Valley Cottage, N.Y.

Staff members also chose third-year College students Rachel Alberico, Katie Dalton and Erin Perucci as the next assistant managing editors.

Third-year Engineering student Eric Hutchins will remain in the position of director of information technology, a spot he has filled for the last year. Hutchins is a computer science major from Groton, Conn.