Victor Mora

While all these improvements have been taking place, Qué Pasa has been operating with unchanged resources, a graduate student who holds a 50% FTE appointment (20 hours per week) and an undergraduate student who works 10 hours per week. The responsibilities of the graduate student have expanded from collecting news of interest to the OSU Hispanic/Latino community, writing editorials and articles, editing copy, designing layout, and publishing the magazine to maintaining and further developing the web page.
The assistant editor helps the editor with interviews, photographs, and editing articles.
The current workload of Qué Pasa has increased to the point that it is beyond what one GA and one undergraduate student are able to handle. Qué Pasa has been unable to retain graduate students for this reason. Qué Pasa needs one GA to work on content and on building relationships with the Latino community, particularly with Hispanic student organizations. A second GA is needed to do the design and layout of the publication as well as the website maintenance and enhancement. Members of Qué Pasa’s Editorial Board have developed a proposal to fund an additional GA position. Funding this new GA position will keep a successful operation fulfilling its purpose. As already indicated, the Hispanic Needs Assessment survey clearly indicates that Qué Pasa is a valuable source of information for Hispanic students.
Presently, Qué Pasa does not have a GA and is contracting the services of Nuestro Ohio newspaper to produce the Winter, Spring, and Summer 2003 issues and to provide website maintenance. Nuestro Ohio’s publisher, Ezra Escudero, is a former editor of Qué Pasa and has agreed to step in while we go through this transition.
We hope these changes will address the growing needs of our publication, both via print and internet, and will permit us to continue to maintain the high standards the magazine has provided over the years.