Norvet takes lead

It seemed only appropriate that Kris Norvet, who created last year’s “Weekend Road Trippin’ ” series for The Daily Campus, conduct her interview for the paper’s top position from a Barcelona Internet café#233; during the ultimate excursion.

Norvet, who will serve as the paper’s editor in chief in the fall, has spent the past year studying in London and was in the middle of a three-week backpacking tour of Europe when she interviewed with the Student Media Company’s Board of Trustees.

“It just so happened that interviews were scheduled while I was backpacking around Europe,” she said. “Consequently, the interview was held via speaker phone in Barcelona.”

Although her travels have taken her thousands of miles from campus this year, Norvet is no stranger to The Daily Campus newsroom.

She began writing for the paper in the spring of her first year at SMU. Soon after, she developed the “Weekend Road Trippin’ ” series, recipes for short excursions including sights to see, driving directions and even music for the drive. During the spring of her sophomore year, she served as associate news editor.

She will take over the position from current editor in chief Feras Gadamsi, who, as an engineering major, brought a fresh vision to the paper.

“Feras really did bring a different way of looking at The Daily Campus,” said the paper’s faculty adviser Judy Babb. Norvet will bring a strong background in magazine writing into the newsroom. Because of this experience, she plans to shape the paper for its target audience: the students.

“I want to make it a more sophisticated paper that caters to the lifestyle of students,” she said. “We are a student newspaper, run by students for students. I want to bring that back around full circle.”

Having written for Dallas-based PaperCity magazine and the national cosmetics publication BeautyFashion in the states helped her to advance her career during her year overseas where she landed a job at Brides UK magazine in London. Within the next month, Norvet will start jobs at New Musical Express and For Him Magazine, the British equivalent to Maxim magazine.

“When people would ask me what my dream job was, it was always to work for Maxim,” she said. “I don’t know what it is about sitting around a newsroom with a bunch of crass yet educated men behaving like adolescents that appeals to me, but I hope to find out in a few weeks.”