Second year student Emma Chapple is starting a new female online magazine at St. Thomas.
On Jan. 21, STU’s own hercampus.com will be launched.
Hercampus.com began at Harvard University in 2009.
Chapple is the first person to bring the online magazine to the Maritimes. There are over 200 schools across the U.S., Canada and the UK who participate. The furthest east school in Canada is McGill and most are in Ontario.
“My mom heard about it on TV and thought it would something I would like.”
Chapple will be the editor-in-chief of hercampus.com at St. Thomas and the campus correspondent to the wider company.
“It’s an online magazine. It will have campus news or news in general or whatever is in interest of the people who are writing. There are also blogs,” she said.
Chapple has eleven writers so far on her staff.
“I have a lot of first year students because I’m in residence and I’m able to promote it more easily to them,” she said. “A lot of people were interested in it because they wanted to get their writing out, but they also didn’t know which venue to do it through. I just wanted it to be accessible.”
After a lengthy application process, Chapple found out last week she will have her own chapter at STU.
The online magazine will feature social issues on things like women’s justice but also fun stuff like what happened on Pretty Little Liars, said Chapple.
“We also will feature campus cuties and campus celebrities, if someone around here is doing something really cool and we want to feature them and let people know what they are doing.”
The weekly quota of stories is seven features a week so an update every day.
Right now, Chapple is working on promoting it before the launch next semester. She is excited to bring hercampus.com to STU because it’s a great opportunity for her and the girls who are writing.
“There is such a huge female community at STU and there’s not a lot to bring us together,” said Chapple. “I hope this will be something that will be positive to the female community at STU.”
