By Chad Galts T o most students, the foyers of the Refectory and Faunce House are places to pass through on the way to a meal. Yet from time to time, amid the voices and stampeding feet you'll see a student pause long enough to pluck a magazine from the piles off to one side. Each stack represents weeks of late-night work and frustration. Given the hours that go into production, the magazines' shelf life is poignantly short. They drop those weird magazines here on Friday afternoons.
Transient passageways are a fitting environment for student magazines.
Readers may notice dramatic changes in design and focus from one volume to the next of the same magazine - again, a byproduct of rapid student turnover. What doesn't change among each year's crop of amateur editors is a diehard enthusiasm for publishing. In each of the four magazines profiled here, the burdens of writing, illustration, photography, and pre-press production fall almost exclusively on the handful of students involved. None has faculty sponsors, and each group has to present a detailed budget to the Undergraduate Finance Board for funding. These students learn early and firsthand that publishing a magazine isn't just about writing articles and taking pictures.