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Printer-Friendly ModeSins releases Fall issue
December 10, 2007 —
To celebrate its release, Cardinal Sins held a reception and reading, highlighting some of the authors and photographers featured in its most recent issue. The reading, which took place last Monday in the Roberta Allen Reading Room, was a casual affair with about 30 people in attendance.
The evening kicked off with mingling and snacks followed by a brief introduction by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief Christi Griffis. Members of the SVSU artistic community featured in the current issue got a chance to read and explain their work. The presentations lasted a little more than a half an hour.
The issue itself, printed on campus at SVSU's graphic center, is 66 pages in length and filled with original work contributed by students, staff, alumni and faculty. Broken into several categories, the publication has a detailed table of contents listing both the work and the artist.
Both staff members and faculty involved with the project are excited with this semester's issue. Griffins in particular is thrilled with the result.
"It looks really good," she said. "Every year we get more submissions and a lot of new people. This gives us a lot of great work to choose from."
Griffis, at the end of her third and final semester as editor, is pleased at the growing success of the publication and is proud of its contribution to artistic growth and expression at SVSU.
"It's really important because SVSU has a huge artistic community and very few outlets," she said. "Cardinal Sins and the events that it hosts give members of this communitty a chance to display their talents."
First time contributor Noah Essenmacher agrees.
"It takes art beyond the idea of academics and into the marketplace. It's important to recognize the creative - not just the academics."
The faculty staff of Sins, in particular, is pleased with this issue. Philosophy professor Peter Brian Barry is enthusiastic about the work submitted this term.
"It's my first time working with Cardinal Sins, and I am really impressed with the submissions," he said. "The poetry in particular was very strong. We have some incredibly talented kids."
Faculty adviser Chris Giroux was delighted by the amount of work that the entire staff put into the publication.
"It's incredibly gratifying to see all of the exertion that goes into Cardinal Sins. The students all do enough work for it to be considered a three credit class," Giroux said. "The fact that they do it in their free time shows their dedication to the arts, and to Sins."
Cardinal Sins is in its twenty-seventh year of publication and will be accepting submissions for its winter issue until early February. Its current issue features fifteen photographs, seven pieces of art, seven short stories, and fourteen poems. Copies of the magazine are free and can be found in numerous locations around campus.
