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Tuesday, October 29, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 3 M State and Local ^/Magazine accepting submissions Uff reifnti tain (Jit an iionc mmtf Students can ‘Give it to Litmus’ >n mg Sami; inexpeis; idgun.! >rs makfi rheSatiis multiple By CYNTHIA GAY Stuff Writer Bold flyers from MSC Literary Arts committee have been asking students for weeks to “Give it to Lit mus!” Litmus is the student literary Magazine; “it" is the creative urge r cn student is willing to share. “It’s a major step for a writer to be “■Wished,” said Dr. James Hannah of the English department. “A lot of yo ng writers keep poetry and pio ■res at home in a drawer. It’s a ■ally personal part of one’s self.” J Along with poetry and pictures, students may submit other types of rraphic art, short stories and non- Siction pieces, including short bio graphies, autobiographies, historical ■searched accounts or essays on me controversial issue. Susie Boyer, editor of Litmus she said. “The only limit we have is the cost.” She added that it costs about $4,GOO to produce the magazine. Student authors are not limited to a certain length or style, Bowen said, but they cannot submit more than a total of three works. Boyer said last year Litmus let stu dents submit as many items as they wished, which resulted in the com mittee receiving some hastily con trived products such as a poem scrib- are selecting the pieces to be pub lished. Four committee members review the works first, and then propose to a higher board what should “light up” the pages of Litmus, Bowen said. This board, comprised of the magazine’s editors and the commit tee chairman, makes the final deci sion. Litmus set a precedent last year by remaining uncensored, Boyer said. Last year one student’s work stirred LITMUS irimesofii Hagazine, said these works must be s a malt2 turned in to the Literary Arts cubicle :ial Orel oruthc secretary’s island in the Stu- ' Int Programs Office by )an. 24, the . | fst week of the spring semester. ^ MSC Literary Arts committee time,anc hks targeted Parents’ Weekend as its i llblication date goal, said Sherri nt anditt powen, committee chairman, nt hometi B fhe numbei of works published s are sett in each category will depend of the quality of submissions. Bowen said, al justktl | , If we g et 1 GO great poems, we’re ^15of| l in S to P uhlish 100 poems,” bled on a paper napkin. “When you limit publication like (the committee is now), it forces peo ple to take a close look at their own work,” she said. “We’re getting what they feel is their very best.” Students should submit a 3-by-5 card with their name and telephone number typed on it along with their finished work, Boyer said. Students also should not put any identifica tion on the finished product, Boyer said, adding that this eliminates per sonal bias when the student judges up a controversy that resulted in the MSC Council debating and finally approving its publication. The com mittee now has established guidelines to deal with any future questionable items, Bowen said. The vice president of cultural programs and a faculty adviser would assist the highest committee board in reviewing the work, and if they are still hesitant, the members will forward it to the MSC Council, she added. She said she expects a more varied group of creative pieces to land in the hands of the MSC Literary Arts committee this year as a result of last spring’s decision. These works will be chosen for their literary merit, Bowen reiterated, not because they shock people. As for the judges’ qualifications, Bowen said the committee’s desig nated members will do a fair and thorough job. “We have been trained to know what to look for,” she said. To prepare its judges and provide interestea student authors with in formation on what makes a work truly literary, the committee is host ing two workshops taught by A&M professors: one on Nov. 6 for po etry, and the other on Nov. 13 for short stories. “People can bring their own works in and get experienced advice,” Bo wen said. She added that the com mittee hopes to bring Wayne Leuch- tenberg, an accomplished author of historical works, to A&M in the Spring. The committee’s thrust now is to ward generating campus creativity and encouraging students to show Litmus their stuff, Bowen said. According to Dr. Hannah, it’s not always an easy decision to make. &M’s skydome facility will be refurbished R. A nd iftwi n lotsolm By JOHN MCCARTER Reporter [Because architects are showing a renewed interest in the use of natu ral light, the Texas A&M Depart- peni of Architecture has refur nished one of the nation’s largest skvdome research facilities on top of the Langford Architecture Center. ■Built in 1963, the skydome, which is 28 feet in diameter and 12 feet Igh, is accessible to sophisticated true image cameras and a workshop to construct accurate scale models. “By using the skydome, research ers will have a controlled laboratory for simulating sky conditions rang ing from clear to overcast,” says Dr. Lester Boyer, an architecture pro fessor at A&M. Boyer is also project director for the Southwest Regional Daylighting Center at A&M, part of the Daylighting Network of North America. fhe skydome will be accessible to architecture students and faculty for instruction, research and continuing education activities. Although the skydome refurbish ing project is a big endeavor, it is not the only project involving the use of natural light. Under a grant from the National Science Foundation, Boyer and Larry Degelman will monitor build ings in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio that use light through atriums and light shelf systems. “When we find buildings we want to measure, we will put the models in the skydome and study them,” Boyer says. “About 50 percent of all deride tni gh! So HOOP ive of ceit .hrowinp e grownU outnuf# hadsudi: icksago. r games> : - their f- i, U son's fromW ntsaref 1 : ss their ^ , Tulsa^ and f )ratthe(j odyan^ \11-Uni' ,(!( , Hotf'* 1 ■oble< pe in ^ ■ team 1 fcasthe* ion- _ ftheT' 1 2 1/2 MILLION DIED AT THE INFAMOUS NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP AT AUSCHWITZ. MARC BERKOWITZ WAS JUST A BOY WHEN HE MET DR. JOSEFF MENGELE. MENGELE KNOWN AS “THE ANGEL OF DEATH” PERFORMED EXPERIMENTS ON 12-YEAR OLD MARC AND HIS TWIN SISTER FRANCESCA. icovenni to tai^ ; Berkowitz. 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