Noreen Gillespie and Tim Logan will serve as managing and assistant managing editors, respectively, for the 2000-2001 academic year, editor in chief Mike Connolly announced Tuesday. Tim Lane will serve as business manager and Brian Kessler will act as operations manager.

With the editor in chief, the managing editor and assistant managing editors are ultimately responsible for the editorial content and daily production of the newspaper.

Gillespie, a LeMans Hall sophomore, is from Newtown, Conn. A political science and sociology double major, she served as the Saint Mary's editor on The Observer's 1999-2000 Editorial Board.

"I'm excited about this opportunity to help direct the future of The Observer," Gillespie said. "I'm looking forward to working with all of the departments. I've got some big shoes to fill — we all do — but we've had some excellent examples and I hope that we can live up to those examples in 2001."

A Siegfried Hall junior from Boston, Logan is an American studies major with a concentration in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy. He served as news editor during the 1999-2000 year.

The business manager is responsible for The Observer's finances and budget, while the operations manager is responsible for overseeing The Observer's Operations Board, including advertising, Web, systems and graphics departments.

Lane, a junior form Dayton, Ohio, lives in Keenan Hall. He served as controller on The Observer's 1999-2000 Operations Board and is an accounting major.

"I'm looking forward to working as business manager because the job will provide me with an opportunity to apply what I've learned in my classes at Notre Dame," said Lane.

A junior from Long Island, N.Y., Kessler served as The Observer's most recent sports editor. He currently lives in Stanford Hall and is majoring in finance.

Connolly also announced the 2000-2001 General Board. Editors and managers are responsible for the administration of departments and for the content of their respective sections of the newspaper:

u Editorial Board

news editor: Anne Marie

Mattingly

Viewpoint editor: Lila

Haughey

Scene editor: Amanda Greco

sports editor: Kerry Smith

Saint Mary's editor: Molly

McVoy

photo editor: Liz Lang

u Operations Board

advertising manager: Pat

Peters

advertising design: Chris Avila

systems administrator: Mike

Gunville

Web administrator: Adam

Turner

graphics editor: Jose Cuellar

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