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7-1991

Connecticut College Magazine, July 1991

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Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Magazine, July 1991" (1991). Alumni News. 256. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/256

This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. ------~------V<,/IIIIIC 1 / Numbe: 1 Jllly 1991 Sykes Alumni Center Becker House Connecticut College New London, CT 06320-4196

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Connecticut College Magazille. These 56 pages represent the first time the Alumni Association and the college administration have collaborated on a publication intended for off-campus audiences. Like the periodicals it replaces - View and the Alumni Magazille - the purpose of this new bimonthly is to keep you in touch with campus happenings and our extended college family. We'J] do that by limiting content to the things we know best: higher education in general and Connecticut College in particular. Cenemt News A LaYOHt YOH Can Live With. We realize there is a lot of competition for the time you are able to allot the media, so when planning the architecture of Connecticut Coffege Magazine we tried to make it easy to find your way around. Up front you'll find the departments you remember from the Alumni Magazille and View including "National Newsmakers" and "Books." "Campus View" now uses icons to identify articles by subject: general news, advancement, Adllal!Cf.'I/!CIII sports and stories about our undergraduate and faculty scholars. A new column, "Verbatim," will highlight campus intellectual life with excerpts from talks made by visiting lecturers. As in the past, Class Notes will be in the back section of the magazine, with one important difference - we'll be publishing notes from all classes rather than alternating even and odd class years. You will find "Alumni Club News" and another new column, "Peers" alumni profiles, Spons interspersed among the notes. The feature stories are in the middle of the magazine, where you'll notice another first - full color!

Environmental and Cost Concerns. We set out to make this magazine a model of environ-

mentally sound production techniques. You may notice that the page you are reading has a few Scholars dark flecks and a slighf gray color. That's because it is printed on stock composed of 50 percent recycled material and 10 percent post-consumer, non de-inked wastepaper. This paper is not bleached, and it is produced with no sludge byproduct. Using this instead of virgin pulp or other types of so-called "recycled" paper will keep ten tons of waste out oflandfills over the course of a year's production. We have also decided to use recently developed soy-based inks rather than the more common petroleum-based kind. Vegetable inks are lower in volatile organic compounds and, because soybeans are a renewable resource, more stable in price than oil-based products. To give you this more substantial publication, we combined the budgets of View and the Alumni Magazil/e. But because we are now mailing one rather than two publications, our postage costs have been cut in half, a substantial savings when mailing 25,000 copies six times a year. We also cut costs by using the latest desktop publishing technology.

A Collaborative ve,/tllre. From initial concept to design, from printing materials research to story writing, it has taken nearly a year to bring this project to fru