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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
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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
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