University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. September 16. 1975
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Magazine faces closure
Staff Writer
By BILL KATS
Cottonwood Review, a University of Kansas-based national literary magazine, is seeking a copywriter.
Richard Colyer, assistant professor of English and Cottown adviser, said he thanked executive vice president, westerndale, westerndale, ministration to help bail Cottown out.
Unless it somehow can obtain funding, the magazine, which was founded about 10 years ago, faces the prospect of temporary imprisonment, said Mike Smitzer, editor in chief.
Cottonwood has only $400 in operating funds, Colyer said, which is leftover national and local grant money and funds from sales of previous issues.
Colyer said that Shankel was a firm believer in Cottonwood.
"He feels that Cottonwood is the University's gift to the nation at large," Colyer said, "and this is the way we feel about it."
Shankel was unable to specify how the University could fund the magazine.
"I think the Cottonwood Review is deserving of support," he said. "It's a business that I love."
The Lawrence City Commission tonight will consider a review of proposed changes in the Heatherwood planned unit development (PUD).
The commission last week agreed to allow some changes but later received a petition protesting the decision from 20 per cent of the residents who own land around the site where the proposed changes were to be made.
The commission also will consider two important revenue-bond issue requests. The first is from TRW Inc., which intends to seek $10 million in revenue bonds for a major expansion in the Santa Fe Industrial Park south of Lawrence.
The second is from the Lawrence Housing Authority (LHA) to built a 100-unit housing complex for the elderly. The LHA project would use a Federal Housing Authority subsidy through the Housing and Community Development Act.
Commission to consider modification
University's reputation. The question is whether we can find the resources to keep it
Sankelt said he told Colyer to prepare a formal justification for University support of the publication. He said he would take Colyer's request for funding and discuss it with other administrators to determine whether a source of funding could be found.
In other business, the commission will decide whether to take bids to demolish houses at 753 Lyons St. and 1096 New Hampshire St.
"I hope we can fund the publication," he said. "It provides an opportunity for a number of our students and faculty to publish their creative work."
Last year Cottonwood Review received funding from several sources, Colyer said. It received a prestigious grant for $100 from the Council of Literary Magazines, he said.
Cottonwood also was given $2,000 from the Endowment Association, Colver said.
This year, however, Cottonwood is existing hand-to-mouth.
In previous years the Student Senate has helped sustain the magazine, Colyer said. But the past two years the Senate has been short of funds, he said.
Last year the $500 allocated for Cottonwood was spent by the Senate on other items, Smetzer said, and the previous year the $500 was spent on the KU marching Band.
The Endowment Association also cannot be expected to help finance Cottonwood this year.
Cottonwood still is trying to obtain a grant from several sources, Smetzer said. He said he was optimistic about obtaining enough funding for the next issue of the magazine this spring.
However, grants are somewhat unpredictable and a publication can' don't depend on them.
In addition to the problems faced in obtaining funds, Cottonwood faces the chronic problem of rising production costs, Colyer said.
The $1,200 which supported Cottonwood
Review in 1969 went further than $2,000 does
now, he said. Every year literary
accounting to inflated
reducing costs, he said.
Cottonwood has received wide recognition for its literary quality, Colyer said. He said the California literary magazine the Berkeley Samsidat in its year end review, last year proclaimed Cottonwood the finest college literary magazine in the country.
"It's nice to be called the finest college literary magazine in the country," he said, "and I would like to work with you."
Smutzer said that Cottonwood had a strong Midwestern flavor. By design, the magazine is comprised of 50 per cent local material and about 50 per cent from writers in the industry, he said. He constantly searches Kansas for good states for good writers, he said.
Colyer said Cottonwood was vital in giving promising writers and poets a start. Often larger publishers won't accept writers' work unless it has appeared in their publications, he said. In this respect, the manager serves a necessary function. Colyer, say.
Cottonwood is also a major part of KU's cultural contribution to the rest of the state.
Although Cottonwood has received favorable national recognition, local support of the magazine has been disappointing. For example, she explains why sales on camus are so low.
Smetzer said that the editors could cut down the size and quality of the magazine but that sales would probably suffer. There was a real risk to an illiterary magazine must keep, he said.
But Cottonwood now has problems selling the 600 issues printed, he said.
Although Cottonwood's future is uncertain, Snetzer said he was still accepting fiction, poetry and photography for possible future issues.
"If we could sell 1,000 copies on campus, wouldn't we have any money problems," he said.
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