Student-produced magazine on CSC’s horizon

Chadron State College’s inaugural student-produced magazine, ACCLAIM will be a 48-page, full-color magazine detailing the past, present, and future of Chadron State College and its students. ACCLAIM is sponsored by The Media Club, and will be published annually each fall.

The Media Club is looking for marketing majors, art majors, English majors, graphic design majors, business majors and many more to contribute to the magazine. Based on student interest, students who contribute could receive 3 credit hours towards elective general education requirements.

Faculty sponsors for ACCLAIM are Kathleen Kirsch and Shafiq Rahman, associate professors and department co-chairs of the Communication and Social Sciences Department, Shaunda French, assistant professor, and Michael Kennedy, instructor.

“A lot of larger colleges have magazines,” Media club President, T.J. Thomson, 21, of Golden Colo., said during an April 3 interview. Thomson said that Chadron State College and its students could benefit from a different form of media that would attract an audience separate from and along with the school’s newspaper, The Eagle.

The Media Club wants to produce enough copies to have one for each student. The magazines will be distributed to on-campus students through their on-campus mailing address. Off-campus students could access the magazine online or pick up a copy from an on-campus distribution center.

ACCLAIM is funded by Student Activity Fee revenue.

Two focus groups met to discuss CSC student, faculty, and community content interests. A survey was also distributed on campus.

Further information regarding Acclaim can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/chadronstateacclaim. “Like” the ACCLAIM page and leave a comment to get involved.