EGO MAGAZINE has landed

“Ego”, not just what you would call a person’s narcissist ideals of self, but the newest addition to the Southern University Office of Student Media’s list of student run publications will make its much anticipated debut this fall.
Personality. Self-Esteem. Character. Theses are three words that describe the new SU magazine, according to its staff members.
“Ego” will hit stands Sept. 5 with a run count of 3,000 copies per issue, including 56 full color pages of sports, news and profiles all made up in an artistic design. The magazine will be printed 5 times a year.
“Hopefully it will make it’s own path,” said Derick Hackett, director of student media.
According to Hackett, the style of the magazine will model after the worldwide known “Sports Illustrated,” but “Ego” will not be centered entirely on sports.
“Sports Illustrated” uses action photography, in-dept coverage, previews college and professional sports and makes analysis and comments.
“Ego” will focus on Southern students and technology, and contain more feature style writing, unlike summary, which the Jaguar Yearbook uses, or hard news like the DIGEST, Hackett said.
Amber R. Perry, a political science and english major from Independence, will head “Ego” as the magazine’s editor-in-chief. Perry honed her skills for two years at the award winning DIGEST before heading to “Ego”.
At the DIGEST Perry wrote funny commentary with her series “Memoirs of a Couch Potato”, where she chronicled her free time watching television. She also wrote numerous reviews that placed highly amongst top Historically Black Colleges and University newspapers.
“It’s a great honor,” said Perry, who aspires to get a doctorate in english. “I feel that in the past two years I’ve worked diligently to see this magazine come to life.
“I hope the student body will give us a warm reception as they did for the Yearbook and DIGEST,” she said.
SU student media will undergo several more remodeling changes to its’ other publications, the Southern DIGEST and Jaguar Yearbook.
Next year the yearbook plans to increase its page size from 320 full color pages to possibly 350 using a better use of large color pictures which Hackett hopes will achieve a more artistic look as compared to traditional college books.
“(Not) ‘snap and grins’,” Hackett said. “(That’s) people standing there and looking at the camera. The (new) pictures are going to tell the story.”
In 1991 the Jaguar Yearbook won its last award and the book placed second nationally, behind Notre Dame, which was twice the size and expense of the Jaguar.
Equally important, a sample of the new design for the Southern DIGEST can be seen throughout this issue. The DIGEST plans to make a better use of color, and more artistic design for its pages. It currently leads HBCU newspapers in design awards.
Currently, approximately 30 students staff the newspaper, 10 at the yearbook and editors expect 15 people to run the magazine.
Students interested in the publications can apply, with no prior experience, to be staff writers, graphic artists, advertising representatives but some skill for copy editors.
Students may also submit poems of no more than one page, and short stories no more than 3,000 words, to the “Ego Magazine” for publication in the magazine’s summer “arts and literary review” edition.