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| `U. Blue' shows artistic flair |
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by Michelle Guchereau
University Blue, Rice's student-run literary and visual arts magazine, annually displays new creative work from the Rice community in glossy black-and-white books. The staff of last year's Volume XIV helped the magazine undergo two aesthetic changes -- a new format and an innovative cover design. The smaller page dimensions allowed almost every original work to receive its own page. The U. Blue staff transformed the cover from what editor and Brown College junior Grace Ho said was becoming "the standard photo-on-the-front design to the more enticing modern form, created by art editor [and Brown sophomore] Matt Hine." "I think that the magazine's fresh and original exterior looks promising for what is held within," Ho said. The variety of original work ranges from poetry and short prose to varying types of artwork and photography. The staff anonymously chooses material from a large "number of excellent submissions by a lot of talented people on staff," editor and Brown senior Lindsey Schechter said last year. Finding high caliber work in the Rice community was not a problem for the U. Blue staff, Schechter said. The real problem, aside from narrowing down the many submissions to only a few pieces, was raising enough money for publication. Although the magazine is partially funded by the university blanket tax, Schechter said that the lack of sufficient funds was still a problem. "I think the U. Blue runs into this problem every year. The blanket tax money just is not enough. We get help from various departments on campus and raise some money by making Thresher deliveries, but it still does not give us the funds we would need to publish the kind of magazine I think this university deserves." Some benefits of a greater budget would be to increase publication and to add color to the cover and some of the art and photography printed within the magazine. Last year's production effort was both time consuming and fulfilling, Ho said. "It was a lot of time spent in the library reading, in the meeting rooms discussing and judging and in the Thresher office laying out and proofing, but I think we produced a splendid magazine. I like what's between the covers."
This item appeared in the Features section of the October 3, 1997 issue. |
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