Vol. 30
issue 1.
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As a college publication, NMC Magazine aspires to engage students, to provoke illumination of the creative mind - that part of us which is often confined by the mundane.
Secrets are the secluded thoughts of the human mind that lie buried in these confines. Whether they are demons of past deeds regretted or dreams of fantastic
scope, we are startled by their depth of raw humanity; we keep them cloaked from exposure. But these imprisoned phantoms threaten to consume us unless they are released, so they may dissolve or develop. This issue of the NMC Magazine gives flight to those secrets. Let the truth be told.
Secrets unspoken • Confessions untold • Truths uncovered
This semester began with two similar ideas for theme, one broad and one more defined; as a compromise we combined them. We decided that we wanted to discover the truth by hearing your secrets and confessions. There were so many ways people could interpret our theme, and since anyone could submit anonymously, the possibilities were limitless.
From the day the call for submissions went out into the community, we were biting our nails every step of the way--were we going to have enough submissions? Was our theme OK? What were people going to think? We thought we werent going to have enough submissions, but actually had the opposite problem. In the end 95 submissions passed through our hands. To cut down the number of entries to print, every staff member voted the submissions in or out. Even then, we still had a too many. Finally, we sat around the meeting table, looked at each submission, talked about them, and fought for or against them.
Although the theme of this magazine asks for secrets, and aims to uncover the truth hidden inside all of us, the content of submissions was driven format. We decided that an interesting and creative way to format the magazine would be to turn each entry into a 5x7 usable postcard (FYIit will take 44c to mail them). Thus, all entries had to fit on a 5x7 card. This meant art and design submissions were limited in size, and literature in length (literature submissions had to be 500 words or less).
I would like to thank our advisors, Caroline Schaefer-Hills and John Pahl, for their patience and assistance while sorting through hundreds of emails, dealing with three different meeting times and for enhancing our ideas. The mag staff would also like to thank everyone who submitted to this issue (the named and the anonymous). Finally, a big thank you goes to our readers for their support. We hope you enjoy the secrets and confessions that NMC students and the surrounding community have shared with us. We hope that you decide to share them with others.
--Erin Deloney, editor
As a submission requirement, NMC Magazine
assumes that all submissions are original works, and is not responsible for any copyright infringements.
Contact
Caroline Schaefer-Hills
Design Adviser: 995-1334
John Pahl
Literary Advisor: 995-1187
Erin Deloney
Editor: 631-5467
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