University Union is looking for students to fill positions on its new promotions board as well as the soon-to-be-vacated position of director of UU Comedy.

This semester, UU created a new board for programming, said Elizabeth Knickerbocker, UU director of promotions, whose position was created to head the board.

‘Last semester, we decided that we needed a board whose sole job would be to promote events and, when we didn’t have events, to promote UU as a whole,’ said Dennis Jacobs, UU president.

The hardest part of programming is letting students know about the programs UU sponsors, said Jerry Robert McGrath, the UU adviser.

‘The new programming board is a great aid to reach as many students as possible,’ McGrath said.

Before the creation of the programming board, the various UU directors had the responsibility to promote their events, Jacobs said.

‘The programming board is set up to help the other boards, like UU Concerts or UU Comedy, have stronger promotions and be more unified, as well as create a promotional group for UU,’ Knickerbocker said.

UU is currently looking to hire students to sit on the promotions board as advertising directors, promotional directors and street team members. There is one promotional position and one advertising position for each of the UU boards, which consist of UU Comedy, Concerts, Speakers, Cinemas, and the radio station WERW, Knickerbocker said.

‘We are looking for some really motivated students who want to see UU become the central entertainment group on campus,’ Knickerbocker said. ‘We want people to help promote UU as a group for the students run by the students.’

UU also wants to let the entire campus know that it is looking for a new director of Comedy, Jacobs said. The current Comedy director, Laura Garrison, will be going abroad to China next semester, leaving her position vacant.

The UU Comedy director is the person who actually gets to talk to comedians’ agents and make final decisions on acts that come to campus, Jacobs said.

‘This is the perfect experience for anyone who cares for comedy and the comedy on this campus,’ Jacobs said.

To apply for any of the open UU positions, students must submit a letter of intent and resume to the UU office within the offices of the Office of Greek Life and Experiential Learning in the Schine Underground by 5 p.m. on Nov. 15. Interviews will be held on Nov. 16 and 17.

Published on November 9, 2005 at 12:00 pm