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University students push for return of literary magazine By Sarah Kitchen Of the Emerild A group of students hope to re-establish a literary magazine at the University to present samples of student work in sub jects such as short story, poetry, art and photography. Depending on approval from the Incidental Fee Committee, the magazine will be published once a year beginning at the end of next winter term with a 48-page issue. It will be a student-run magazine that will publish works submitted by a vino's B SPAGHETTI n HOUSE m PIZZA ir~if V-tfl 1/0*1 IftKti 342-8111 Introducing . . . FREE Delivery Service! * •Tree delivery with a minimum order Also offering • Full dinner menu • White or whole wheat crust • Limited delivery area 15th and Willamette Hours: Open 11 am 7 days a week students, said Clay Hutto, a graduate student in English whose idea it was to start the magazine. "As of now we are trying to have it be only a student literary magazine," Hutto said. Hutto founded a literary society this fall term, an its members are working toward starting the magazine. Between 10 and 15 people at tend the monthly meetings; however. Hutto hopes to attract more people by having faculty and student readings as well as invite writing professors to discuss their work and their style of writing. Some people interested in seeing a student-run literary magazine on campus have been involved with similar publica tions in the past and are hopeful that the magazine will be published. "People have expressed in terest and optimism and think it is a good idea to have a literary magazine at the University,” Hutto said. "After all, literature OFFICE WITH A VIEW The Peace Corps is an exhilarating two year ex perience that will last a lifetime. Working at a professional level that ordinarily might take years of apprenticeship back home, volunteers find the career growth they're looking for and enjoy a unique experience in the developing world. 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"It helped to unify the com munity around the school, and not just in the creative writing program, but with people who were really shy about their writing. After arriving at the Universi ty, Sather said she was disap pointed there was no literary magazine. It could be because many people believe Northwest Review to be the student-run literary magazine, she said. Northwest Review is a University literary magazine; however, it is not a student-run magazine — it is published by the English Department. Several professors attend the monthly literary meetings, and in the future Hutto hopes more will attend either as par ticipants or as guest speakers. Ralph Salsbury, professor of English, said he is both surpris ed there was not a literary Open 24 Hours kinko's Great copies Great people 860 E. 13th 344 7894 1 Pepito’s burger Pepito's potatoes & 1 small drink $1.99 Good thru 2-28-87 Good all day. CAFtotr SO Country Club Rd 544-0864 Across from the Northbank magazine already at the Univer sity and optimistic about the prospect of one. “I really support the idea; 1 first published a magazine like this as an undergraduate, and I think it is a good thing to have at a University,” Salsbury said. “Students and faculty can submit their work, but their submissions are in competition with some 4,000 submissions from around the country," he said. Also, some students, par ticulary graduate students, work on the editorial staff of Northwest Review, which is published three times a year. “There have been several literary magazines at the University,” said University Archivist Keith Richard. “But they’ve lived and died.” Among the larger of such magazines was The Reflector, which began publication in 1893. The Oregon Monthly, which started at the turn of the century and continued into the teens came next, followed by the Oregon Weekly. Because of increased student demand the Oregon Emerald was formed. With the arrival of the Emerald, which at its begin ning was published three times a week and later became the Oregon Daily Emerald, came a change in the style and content of the publications. They became more news-type papers instead of places for students to publish their stories and artwork. “This will be an artistic, not journalistic publication. The main purpose of the magazine will be to publish creative ef forts and expressions and not news,” Hutto said. Undergraduate students who are interested in creative writing will particularly benefit from the magazine not only by be being able to submit their works for publication, but by being able to read work done by their peers, Hutto said. “There will be a consensus agreement of what is worthy for publication, so it will not just be the choice of an individual," Hutto said. “Basically, what we will expect is good taste and judgment." 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