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Show The Dally Utah Chronicle, Thursday, October 19, 1979 Page Ten tmiHEtmr AD NME WD" tote Quarterly West University Printing Service 'Quarterly West' outsiders slick, sometimes brilliant Brett Del Porto Chronicle Staff Writer It occurs to me that there are two ways to approach a college literary magazine. You can provide a showcase for college-leve- l talent by including student work only, or you can use the available funds to seek out the best By writers around, whether or not they are students. The Quarterly West staff apparently opted for the latter in the recent springsummer edition and many will applaud this decision. It's difficult to dispute the quality of slick, almost professional, occasionally brilliant work appearing courtesy of writers from all over the country. Yet I can't help but wonder if the use of University funds can be justified when of the magazine is roughly only one-fift- h made up of writers from the Salt Lake area. Couldn't this forum be better used to bolster the careers of local artists? The mastery of style and structure of artists such as Pamela Stewart, an English professor at Arizona State University, makes a good case for the inclusion of outside work. It is unlikely that many students could equal the unforced fluidity of her poetry. Ghost Pantoum is a disquieting, but compelling piece exploring the loss of a loved one with beautiful metaphors and striking imagery. As the title implies, the subject of the poem is a relentless spectre who exists only in the writings left behind. m Una . But the obscurity and lack of definitive conclusion makes me wonder if many of the admirers of such efforts are not being fooled, just as I am tempted to be fooled. "It's like falling in love to touch your breath on paper," is one of the many lines in Stewart's poems that makes me wonder if she and other poets are not simply the beneficiaries of scholarly overinterpretation. 7 Stewart's poems certainly read like poetry, but I am just not willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. While pretty, many of her allusions are either intentionally obtuse, or aimed at a very select, very specialized audience. ;.f Of the many examples of unnecessary outside contributors, none are quite so glaring as the four translated versions of poems by 20th century German poet Ranier Maria Rilke. If the use of his work is intended to show the talent of translator Franz Wright, then perhaps some allowances ought to be made. But it is best to keep the classics out of amateur publications a dictum Quarterly West seems unaware of, unless the staff members pretend to group Rilke among their peers. Of the local crop, Carol Nuttal's short fiction titled "At the Age of 29" is clearly a highlight. Her smooth crisp writing attaches the reader immediately to the endearing Continued on Page Eleven AjG& TV If alternative sources of funding are not found by January, the springsummer issue of the "Quarterly West" may be one of the last. Tightwad U 'doesn't deserve' QW PRATT Si WHITNEY AIRCRAFT GROUP A division of UNITED TECHNOLOGIES will be (H mm OCTOBER 31, 1979 to interview candidates for attractive opportunities in HIGH TECHNOLOGY Consult your Placement Office for degree and field of study requirements AT An Equal Opportunity Employer Quarterly will fold without funds By Barbara Rattle Chronicle Associate Editor "If the University isn't willing to pay for Quarterly West, it doesn't deserve to have a magazine like Quarterly West," said Terry Hummer, editor of the University's literary magazine. "The magazine will probably fold in January. I'm pretty resigned to it now." Quarterly West was formed three years ago when Publications Council, the publishing body of the Chronicle, decided to created a quality literary publication with its reserve money. At that time, advertising revenue generated by the Chronicle was greater than the amount the newspaper spent on daily operations; the excess money was placed in a reserve account. The council decided that, in view of its favorable financial situation, it could comfortably support such a magazine. Institutional Council, the University's governing body, agreed and Quarterly West joined the Chronicle under Publication's Council's jurisdiction. Since then Quarterly West has operated on Publications Council reserves, generated by the Chronicle, and student fees allocated by ASUU. Those sustaining reserves ceased to exist last June. Because the 1979 Chronicle had a large number of uncollected accounts receivable and suffered an operating loss, the paper has had to sustain itself with the Publication Council reserves it created earlier. Those reserves have been sapped; the Chronicle budget has been reduced while expenses have increased, and Publications Council has no reserves to support Quarterly West. Earlier this summer, Publications Council searched unsuccessfully for money to support the magazine. Neither the council members nor the Chronicle editors feel the magazine should be eliminated, but neither can produce the funds to prevent it. On June 11, Institutional Council rejected Publications Council budget request of $37,268 in student fees enough to support both the Chronicle and Quarterly West and awarded only $25,000, the amount suggested by the ASUU Assembly. Institutional Council also endorsed an ASUU Assembly resolution asking that the Publications Council's student fees be used to support the Chronicle rather than Quarterly West, but encouraged the publishing bodv to seek additional published very little student work and should not therefore be supported by student fees. Quarterly West editor Hummer told Publications Council, at a June meeting, that he could probably get an outside grant to publish an issue of the magazine next winter if enough money to publish the fall issue could be collected. He said the magazine would probably be more eligible for federal grants it didn't receive student fees. But if it failed to publish a fall issue it would not be eligible for federal money at all. The magazine has applied for a grant, but doesn't expect a decision until November or December. As of June, Quarterly West had already accepted 75 percent of the submissions needed to publish the fall issue. After eliminating all staff salaries, editors said they could publish the fall issue with $4,670. In the final effort to save the magazine, Quarterly West sent a delegation of three of its student members to the ASUU Assembly July 12 to seek funds for one more issue of the magazine. The Assembly allocated $2,000 to the magazine. The bill specified that it would be the last allocation Quarterly West would receive from student fees. The Assembly suggested that perhaps the magazine should cut back to a 75 percent issue. "We're hurting, obviously," Hummer said after the decision. "We're very grateful to ASUU for the $2,000. But I still feel ASUU made a shameful mistake in not funding Quarterly West more fully. I think it is absolutely shameful." The allocation from ASUU has provided the magazine the ability to" seek matching amounts of money from federal sources. Without an initial amount, the magazine cannot request that any sources match it. The $2,000 is "not even half enough to complete one issue," Hummer said, but the staff now hopes the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM) will aid the publication in some way. But the CCLM cannot notify the magazine of a decision to fund until November or December. Therefore, Quarterly West's nearly completed fall issue, which would normally be in production now is on hold. Hummer said the issue will be presented in January as a fallwinier edition. Hummer also said the magazine has dim hopes of creating a spring issucMo contain only writing by Utahns. Searching for money from other campus sources has bee n fruitless, Hummer said. All budgets have been frozen since-las- t February, due to the way the fiscal year is organized. "If we can't get any "substantial support Horn the |