Meet your editors

We at the Runner would like to extend a warm welcome back to Kwantlen for the Fall 2010 semester. Three of us are new around here and we had a lot of fun getting to know the ins and outs of the paper this summer. Now that school’s back in we’d all like to get to know some of you as well. Here’s a bit about us and feel free to drop by the office and we can all get to know each other  a little better.

Abby Wiseman [coordinating editor]

Who are you?
I’m Abby.

Why are you here?
I’m here to be the coordinating editor of this paper and make it awesome.

Where do you want to be in five years?
I want to be working with a documentary film crew in some crazy remote area.

If you had a pet monkey what would his name be?
Pet monkey. I don’t know. Something like Tony.

If you were a planet what would your dominant gas be?
Oh my god, I don’t do science. Oxygen? I don’t know. Is that a gas?

Describe your childhood in a song.
Something really epic. What’s a really epic song? Something by Meat Loaf, probably.

What colour describes your aura?
Purple, because it’s bright and colourful and down to earth and looks good on everyone.

Kassandra Linklater [news editor]

Who are you?
Can Kristi answer all my questions for me?

Why are you here?
Here’s the boring answer: I want to contribute to student life at Kwantlen and I think this paper’s really important.

Where do you want to be in five years?
I want to have a massive empire.

Describe your childhood in a song.
My childhood?
Kristi: No yours.

What was the last website you were on?
(with disdain) Facebook… I know. Awful.
Oh no no no! Actually, the Harvard Business Review.

yeah right…

What do you want to do when you’re retired?
I want to retire at 35 and I want to sleep.

Kristi Alexandra [culture editor]

Who are you?
A depressive writer type.

Why are you here?
Because my mom and dad had sex one day in 1987. 1986!

Where do you want to be in five years?
In the Cosmo offices in New York City.

If you had a pet monkey what would his name be?
Bananas?

Describe your childhood in a song.
I want to say the Full House theme song but I don’t know what it is.

What’s your biggest grammar pet peeve?
Just bad spellers. I know that’s not a grammar thing but it really bothers me.

What colour describers your aura?
Sunset.

Why?
Because Shannon Sayer has a gift for seeing auras and she told me that’s what my aura looked like.

Matt Law [media editor]

Who are you?
Do you want me to be clever or do you want real answers?

Whatever you want.
I’m Matt Law. Media Editor.

Why are you here?
I don’t know. I’m not good at these things.

What did you dream about last night?
I was having this wicked dream where the entire journalism program was sent out to a sniper battle.

If you were a planet what would be your dominant gas?
Methane, most definitely.

Describe your childhood in a song.
(sings) My childhood was good.

What’s your biggest grammar pet peeve?
Iregardless. People who say irregardless. It’s regardless, goddammit.

What do you want to do when you retire?
Exactly what I’m doing now: absolutely nothing.