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Show SCRIBULUS AND WRITERS AT WSC by Gordon T. Allred This issue of SCRIBILUS comes to you as Weber State College realizes its full role as a four-year institution. The editors have worked competently, and while they have hoped for more submissions, the offerings within these pages need no apology. Creative ability is clearly evident. It seems equally evident, however, that SCRIBULUS like the institution it represents, must expand and undergo evolution. Within this fast-growing student body lies excellent literary ability and potential. How properly to exploit them is the question. The editors are developing plans to provide students greater inducement; teachers will, (it is hoped) do more to encourage submissions and, through its own increasing stature, the magazine should steadily lure more talent. As presently conceived, this publication will provide students an outlet for poetry, fiction, and a certain amount of non-fiction. 2 It will also give faculty members a limited hearing. Beyond this, it is hoped that the SCRIBULUS will help stimulate people at Weber to enter the tough, brutal, fascinating and, at times, wonderfully rewarding world of free-lance writing. In view of these rather optimistic observations it seems appropriate to suggest that writers from Weber State College may look up as well as down for the sources of their creative inspiration. Within recent years, especially, many American authors have contended that the only 'realistic' literature is the sordid, amoral, and nihilistic. To write about 'life' as it TRULY IS, and with appropriate sophistication, one must, as Wallace Stenger explains the attitude, ...convey the message that sex is the only thing that makes a rotten world bearable, the only possible means of human contact, and pretty grubby at that, closer to hostility than to affection.' In addition, one must emancipate himself from the myth that there are still heroes walking the land, that sin is sometimes sin, that fidelity and family are elemental, that the things of the spirit are worth seeking. 3 |
