The Idol
The Idol is the Union College literary magazine which includes poetry, prose, photography, and art. When Professor Raymond Herrick's advanced composition class (English 31) launched the Idol on February 9,1928, it took the name of one of the College's icons, previously used in 1911 for a short-lived humor magazine (supra). The magazine began as a literary review, evidently modeled to a degree on the Saturday Review of Literature. It published fiction and poetry but gave prominent place to literary essays and criticism and book reviews.
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The Idol, 1965
Rodham E. Tulloss
In this issue: new writers appearing in this issue are Donald Abood and Harold Neunder, both of Professor Gado's Creative Writing Class. Professor Gado's notes comment on them as well as other pieces appearing in this Idol. Paul Sherwin contributes two poems showing the profound influence of Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the folk singer-poet, Bob Dylan. Jeffrey Hedquist and Douglass Allen contribute two pieces of verse in conventional style. And Martin Jay returns after a year in Europe with two precise pieces. Lawrence Weitz is the present Counsellor to Students and an instructor in psychology; he contributes the record of an intriguing dream.
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The Idol, 1964
Rodham E. Tulloss
In this issue: Eight of our contributors appear in the Idol for the first time: Daniel F. McLister, winner of honorable mention in last spring's Academy of American Poets contest, is represented by two intricate pieces of verse. A. Rutherford justifies his existence admirably. Stephen Granger contributes with a simple pastoral. Robert Milder contributes an essay on existentialism which won some praise from Prof. Kurtz. Peter Blue, a member of Prof. Gado's Creative Writing course, makes his first appearance with an untitled poem. Charles Nunzio and Ken R. Wilkes make good representatives of the new freshman class with two poems and an entertaining sketch respectively. And Wayne Franklin submits a poem on one of the major problems of any age - communication.
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The Idol, 1957 (1)
Edward Cloos Jr.
The magazine looks so much the same as last time, save for minor changes, as far as format is concerned that we feel called upon to note what we think are major variations inside. Of course, we've put the name of the Mohawk National Bank in their advertisement and little things like that. But the content itself is almost radically different. For one thing, most of the characters in the stories live through the entire story - and want to. Somehow the preoccupation with lonely and intellectual death is missing.
We like to think that the inspiration to write about intellectual suffocation is easy to come by at Union, but it is a hollow sort of satisfaction with which one views the truth of this thought. Since the serious minded, at least, among the faculty and administration would be the last to suggest that it is the students who make the college what it is, one hardly could say it is the students who are asphyxiating their intellectual selves.
There seems to be a new surge of verse writing on campus as evidenced by the contents of this issue. We're glad of it, but what we'd really like to see is more prose writing. Prose or verse, though, we think the ideas in most of the article and poems are quite some better than most of the thoughts drowned in Hale House coffee. The story, written under a pseudonym, called Following Eagle is one of the most interesting we've read (in the IDOL office, anyway). Not all of the editors were so interested as we were, but the story still has merit. It is not a slice of imaginary life as so many such stories are.
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The Idol, 1957 (2)
Edward Cloos Jr.
THE IDOL is published four times a year at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Yearly subscription rate: one dollar and fifty cents. Individual copies: fifty cents. Printed at the Gazette Press, 332 State Street, Schenectady, N. Y. Editorial offices at Washburn Hall, Union College.
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The Idol, 1957 (3)
Edward Cloos Jr.
THE IDOL is published four times a year at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Yearly subscription rate: one dollar and fifty cents. Individual copies: fifty cents. Printed at the Gazette Press, 332 State Street, Schenectady, N. Y. Editorial offices at Washburn Hall, Union College.
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The Idol, 1956
Edward Cloos Jr.
The IDOL being a Union College magazine exclusively becomes a medium of communication between all possible factions of the student body. There is no other, or if another not a better, way to reach a large group of your peers ( as determined by the Admissions Office who, with college tradition, selected this community).
Still, we are weak in many places, and we do admit it. For example, this issue is essentially a humorless one. There are no smutty jokes to read - though we do not oppose them on policy. If Union College students wish to submit in their own names jokes and stories of whatever nature they will, we'd feel a responsibility to print the " best'' of them. Aside from the old jokes, we favor just about everything honestly funny. We hope that for the remaining three issues we will have the material to devote a considerable portion of two of them to articles of a humorous nature.
The role of sports as a section of the IDOL is not now clearly defined. All we are certain of now is that we like sports, enjoy writing and reading about them and hope constantly to build our department.
