Save The Rainforests, Destroy Craccum
Tuesday, September 16, 2008Posted by
Sim
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Craccum is the University of Auckland's common room circular. It used to be a great, well written, and entertaining magazine to read - but through the neglect of editors and staff it has become a rag. Pages once covered in well written pieces of satire and insight have been replaced with penis jokes and lame comics to pad the empty spaces. The covers, whilst not so important in terms of content as it is for aesthetics, have gone from pieces of art to pieces of shit.
The editing staff of Craccum need to change how they decide on articles. Just because penises (or peni, not sure what the plural is) are funny in both shape and function doesn't mean you plunder the humor out of it. What the magazine needs are articles and comics which showcase the talents and intelligence of our university, rather than the ignorance and stupidity within.
I've noticed that over the course of this year they have increased the size of the opinions section, what I refer to as the 'hick-mail' section. In this people send in mail criticising the mail which people sent in the previous weeks. This continues until the whole first 5 pages of the magazine is nothing more than a sea of dim-witted hate (grow up people, swearing at people through written publication doesn't improve the argument that you are smart and others are stupid, especially if you can't write properly yourself).
Craccum is a student contribution magazine, meaning there are no articles unless the students submit them. It seems that all that gets filtered through the submission process, and reviewed by the editor nowadays are articles which have no intelligence. You get the odd diamond in the rough showing what Auckland students are really capable of producing, but this just isn't enough for the magazine which is supposed to be representing New Zealand's best university.
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