The Team

Ben Anderson

Head of Finance

3rd Year, English and History of Art

Live music fan and pub quiz enthusiast; Ben’s “try everything” approach to life ensures that he spends far too much time doing things that that are completely unrelated to what he should be getting on with. In his spare time he studies for a degree that changes almost as often as the weather in St Andrews.

Aspires to: be an art auctioneer.

Spent the summer: swanning around festivals and galleries, and volunteering at the local arts centre.

Couldn’t live without: his mac, mini eggs and second hand book stores.

A day well spent would be: a miracle.

How do you take your tea? In industrial quantities.

Jesse Steere

Editor of The Gastronome

3rd Year French and Italian

Growing up with a family hungry for adventure, Jesse began discovering interesting cuisines at a young age. Ethiopian, Turkish, Korean and strange dishes like veal brains or haggis were not to be missed. In addition to writing about great food, Jesse also loves singing and playing guitar. She can be found every Monday at the Criterion’s open mic night.

Aspires to: Become a successful musician

Spent the summer: Interning for the food magazine “Edible Aspen” in Colorado, and staying with an Italian family near Verona.

Couldn’t live without: Pinot Noir and Pink Floyd

A day well spent would be: A long hike followed by a night out

How do you take your tea? Blooming flower tea

Claire Herrin

Photo Editor

As a long time fan of Leibovitz and Ansel Adams, Claire is enamored with every aspect of photography. She maintains this hobby hauling her Nikon N75 waist-side through both the dirt roads of the Kansas countryside, and the vibrant streets of Beijing - places she calls her home. Her free time is spent playing board games and watching The West Wing on rerun.

Aspires to be: a skilled manual motor vehicle operator, multilingual, and unabashedly extroverted

Spent the Summer: Earning my first valuable wage

Couldn’t live without: Candied Laces from Burns, Passport, and Tetley’s

A day well spent would be: Eating Humus and watching anything Nolan

How do you take your tea? Milk, sugar, and lots of Love.

Lori Anderson

Graphics Editor of The Bon Vivant

Being from Glasgow, Lori can find St Andrews overwhelming at times and enjoys heading home to see some taller buildings. Most of the time, however, she does love this tiny town and can be found enjoying the beach or searching for treasures in the various charity shops.

Aspires to: One day own a dog

Spent the summer: enjoying Glasgow

Couldn’t live without: laughing

A day well spent would be: A barbeque with friends, music and sunshine

How do you take your tea? Milky and often

Charley Carson

Editor of The Bon Vivant

3rd Year Modern History

The youngest of six, Charley is the only child interested in the arts, much to the relief of her artsy parents. Her greatest joy is a good pun. She chose St Andrews to move back to her Scottish roots, only to hear the remark from a Glaswegian father that St Andrews is NOT Scotland… When at home in London, she would like to pretend she is cooler than she is by hanging out in all the trendy areas, but ever the miser, she’d rather save the tube fare…

Aspires to be: called the right name by her parents, the first time!

Spent the summer: making excuses for why I hadn’t got a job so I could watch the Olympics ALL THE TIME; and painting my house.

Couldn’t live without: a pencil and radio 4

A day well spent would be: any day I have the time to finish a really good book.

How do you take your tea: any way I want it… as long as it’s black with no sugar.

Lucy Thomas

Editor

3rd Year Art History

Lucy spent an idyllic childhood in the countryside of rural Herefordshire before attempting to find direction and enrolling on an Art Foundation course. Specializing in illustration, she spent the majority of her time at Art College drinking tea, cutting and sticking and taking full advantage of the library archives of Vogue, I.D. and Dazed and Confused. Miraculously culminating in a place at St Andrews, when not studying Lucy still spends much of her spare time pursuing like activities.

Aspires to be: the sort of person who is capable of formulating a five-year plan.

Spent the summer: working as P.A. to a film producer in Europe and the U.S.

Couldn’t live without: a notebook, blogs and tumblrs.

A day well spent would be: accomplishing my to-do list early in the day allowing plenty of time for idle pursuits with friends in the afternoon.

How do you take your tea: the earl, no sugar and offensively milky.

Hannah Smith

Editor of The Wanderer

2nd Year English Literature

Having finally persuaded her concerned parents to let their only daughter pursue her travel ambitions, Hannah is making up for lost time and documenting the adventures of herself and others along the way. After a gap year job writing for and editing a school newspaper, she is especially excited to cover something other than hockey matches. Happiest when exploring, she also enjoys playing guitar, baking apple crumble and skiing.

Aspires to: briefly live in New York as the protagonist of a romantic comedy before returning to rural obscurity

Spent the summer: dodging sharks and drinking sweet tea in South Carolina

Couldn’t live without: rain boots, a map and Thomas Hardy novels

A day well spent would be: making a flask of tomato soup, heading up a hill and enjoying a Scottish summer sunset

How do you take your tea? Jasmine Earl Grey

Arielle Bean

Editor of The Informer

2nd Year, English & Management

Arielle came to St. Andrews after deciding that she wasn't quite finished with Europe after her gap year in Ireland. When she's not taking midnight jogs, you can find her curled up at home with a vat of coffee and listening to Benny Goodman. She might also be secretly planning her next extended backpacking trip around the world.

Aspires to: discover a way to be perpetually warm in Scotland

Spent the summer: teaching and traveling in China

Couldn't live without: her ipod

A day well spent would be: unearthing the nooks and crannies of a new city

How do you take your tea? A tiny bit of milk and enough sugar to make you uncomfortable

Adele Oates

Permanent writer: The Wanderer

Social Anthropology

Among many other valuable life skills Adele was taught to say the alphabet backwards at the age of nine by her grandmother. She grew up listening to Van Morrison and inherited her parents’ love of forest walks. Having come to St Andrews to study English Literature she quickly discovered her love for Anthropology and happily gave Shakespeare the boot. Now in 4^th Year Adele is embracing her last year and filling it full of friends, memories and Monday nights in the Criterion.

Aspires to: See the sunset on every continent and learn to horse ride

Spent the summer: Charading as an anthropologist doing fieldwork in Edinburgh and falling in love with the city

Couldn’t live without: Country music and baking

A day well spent would be: A long walk in the country followed by a roast dinner

How do you take your tea? London Fog, extra Vanilla

Rachel Flinn

Permanent writer: The Informer

2nd year, Geography & Social Anthropology

Rachel is tall, blonde and blue eyed – one of the Scando-looking non-Scandos in St Andrews. A traveller at heart, she’s constantly planning her next post-gap year adventure, after discovering her love for anthropology and the diversity of cultures on her South East Asian travels. Rachel has a passion for Italian food and their family-centred socialising as well as her true love, ballet and contemporary dance. Oh, and she’s living her life in the eyes of Carrie Bradshaw: “If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.”

Aspires to be: Following whatever dream her day starts with/A Kardashian/Mila Kunis.

Spent the summer: eating spaghetti Vongole at Sorrento’s finest Marina’s, hostel-hopping in the Lake district with a family who should be living in Victorian times.

Couldn’t be without: A bottle of wine and my Sex and the City box set. And Channing Tatum.

A day well spent would be: A romantic surprise getaway, basically a fairytale in real life. (Pretty Woman comes to mind)

How do you take your tea? Tetley. Or Chai, when in India.

Zoe Mackie

Permanent writer: The Gastronome

Zoë is addicted to pumpkins, cinnamon and all things nice! Her favourite food is spaghetti alla vongole, she loves all things Scandinavian and will make any excuse to drink Kopparberg and cocktails!

Catriona McGillivray