yea, I seen it after I read this ..

I must say it IS a waste of $, materials, and

effort.

But..

Thats the way the cookie crumbles..

The kids who put this thing together DID IT.

They pulled some things together and did it.

Look around, theres tons of shitty stuff out in

the world,… mOre than qualitative stuff..

It boils down to how somone took the

inchoative to do somthing.

To quote Jurassic Park: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

To make clear, yet again, this review was not, and is not, a personal attack on the magazine’s creators or funders. You, (art4life) of all people, know very well that I support Student Life and the efforts that they make to give CCS students a voice.

You suggest, “publish something or give up.” I suggest, consider the value of what you’re publishing, before your readers give up.

To say the least, there is a hidden agenda behind this post. I believe (knowing megan) that her “betrayal” is built on the cut funding of the previous successful magazine “Spine”. Which was created by the graphic design department for a class, which students were given credit for. I was a faithful follower of this magazine and I have the first 4 issues (the missing issues are due to the lack of distribution, which come from the lack of funding). Even this last semester I met with two of the students in the class who worked on spine, to brainstorm ideas. One idea brought up was to bring Spine back to the school. This publication, (from the mouths of the two students I met with) was focused solely on the graphic design department, and was encouraged to do so by the instructor. No longer did they want it to be open to the school. My understanding of spine was (again from my sources) that any mention of opening submissions to the student body were revoked with little discussion. Marcus has it right on when he says perspective was and is struggling with dedicated members. Having people show up to one or two meetings and tell them they would take the time to do something for the periodical and then stop showing up was a continual problem. This made it hard on those people who were dedicated to get anything done. So it came to a point where everything had to be done and they relied on the people they knew would do it. Themselves. Were they the best for the job? Probably not. But they did the best they could. It got to a point where it was ether publish something or give up. So maybe this issue was that great. It had a lot of problems. But you should not be so quick to bash something with so much potential and instead maybe you should show up to meeting. It’s easy to sit on your ass and type into your blog. But at least some people are out there trying. I have faith that this periodical with improve over time.

I can’t help but question why the school would invest so much into a project and not have full supervision over it. Financial Statements, proofs for approval? I can’t think that the President of CCS would want future prospective students and their parents picking up a copy of this magazine and reading about how CCS is tackling the environmental aspect of “greener” sex.

I suppose approvals are only needed for the posters advertising the magazine throughout the hallways.

Anyone of us who is willing to produce someone’s idea because they have money with no “careful assessment to the audience, and the question of value”, well then you are becoming a computer pusher.