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“After more than a century of founding and subsidizing literary magazines as a vital part of their educational missions, colleges and universities have begun off-loading their publications, citing overburdened budgets and dwindling readership. Despite the potentially disastrous consequences to the landscape of literature and ideas, it’s increasingly hard to argue against. Once strongholds of literature and learned discussion in our country, university-based quarterlies have seen steadily declining subscriber bases since their heyday a half-century ago—and an even greater dent in their cultural relevance.” (Mother Jones)
On the up-side, the barrier to creating and maintaining a comparable literary journal online are lower than ever, meaning that it should be easy for departments or even student editors to publish ‘zines indefinitely. That probably affects readership in some way, but it continues to allow for scholarly exchange, exposure of talent, and many of the other functions of campus publications…
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i was beginning to believe i may well be the only student whom thought about this, at the very least currently i acknowledge im not loonie :) i am going to be sure to check out a number of other threads after i get a bit of caffeine in me, it is actually very hard to read with out my coffee, I was until the wee hours of the morning last evening enjoying zynga poker and after polishing off a few beers i finished up giving up all my zynga poker chips cheers :)
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