Summary 'The Sheaf' magazine

We looked at a university student magazine indepth and was then
set task to make a brief summary of it aswell as research our own choice of student university magazine.

We looked at an American student university newspaper called The Sheaf its a student newspaper that has been published since 1912. It consists of two sections one section called the A section and the other the B section. As you can see the A section is more formal and involves things such as news, peoples opinions, stories, letters and adverts, it looks as though its less formal judging from the front cover, however its stories are of more importance. Section B is informal, although you would'nt believe it from the way its set out it includes things such as social lives, band interviews,cd reviews, night scene and sports. Its main purpose is to mirror a students life and publicize events occuring on campus that will be important to the students. I think you can tell its a student magazine from section A because of the front cover image used looks as though its been took by a student and also includes two people in which im persuming are students.

Its a non profit organisation and offers a chance for students to write it, the profits made are generated through the adverts. Its a weekly pulished magazine and usually hits the stands on a wednesday evening, papers are distributed to colleges on campus.

The sheafs purpose and overall mission is to inform and entertain and to address relevant issues that will input on life in the campus. It also gives forum for a discussion a wide and various range of issues of concern to students and lastly it allows students to write to appeal to other students, It does have certain policies in which they include the right to veto(cut out) any submission they see as unfit for the newspaper, they also decide whether an article or artwork is beneficial and of intrest to the readers and lastly the policy ends with the right to not publish anything that may be racist, sexist, homophobic or libelous material in any form or manor.

Overall I think the sheaf magazine has a good purpose and it aim's to please students in everyway that they require, its not over the top and you can almost tell straight away from looking at it that its a student magazine.