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...editor-in-chief of Padan Aram, I would like to congratulate you on your news feature article, "It's Publish or Perish for Student Magazines," for bringing up an important issue. However the article largely missed the point. Why do Harvard publications, especially literary magazines, have such a short life? Funding for such student projects can come principally from two sources: the Undergraduate Council or the Office for the Arts. The Office for the Arts, although generally kind and generous, is mostly interested in funding flashy, one-time-event, art projects. Nothing so regular and ordinary, with certifiable artistic merit...
...Undergraduate Council also has a stipulation that funding for student organizations should just be start-up funding, and that with each grant application a publication must prove that it is on its way to being financially self-sufficient. Padan Aram was denied any funds for publication by the Undergraduate Council, despite Treasurer Michael Kelsen's delusion to the contrary. Furthermore, the council rarely grants the full amount requested...
...since when has leadership been the sole guage of interest? The fact that I never have been mistaken for William Faulkner doesn't mean that I want to attend the dinner for Harvard writers any less than the editor of Padan Aram. And while it is true that most student leaders are talented, dedicated and hard-working, many could be described with less flattering adjectives. How about aggressive, competitive and single-minded...
...criteria for guests was involvement inactivities that were related to the event. Forexample, Epps said that about 60 writers for theAdvocate, Padan Aram, the Lampoon, theIndependent, the Signet and The Crimson would beinvited to the luncheon honoring Harvard writers...
Brooks P. Hanson, '87, editor of Padan Aram, a Harvard literary magazine, and Nick Davis '87, former president of the improvisational theater company On Thin lee, are creating a novel on tape. Their work, 'Boone," is an oral biography of a fictitious intellectual called Boone. Hanson and Davis have gotten together 40 Harvard actors to assume the 55 roles of Boone's life acquaintances. Hansen calls their work "the execution of a novel...