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Poor Typography

On the other hand, a word
should be said about the magazine's
typography: Poor. It is understood
that a student magazine if only for
financial reasons, may have to be
printed from offset plates of
typewritten material. But that does
not mean that the typing has to be
so careless as to mar the total
appearance of the magazine-not
only with a large number of
uncorrected typographical errors,
but also with seemingly whimsical
shifts of type-face from one page to
the next. (The ugly and
hard-to-read sans-serif in which
Covington's story is typed is
particularly appalling.

And the potentially valuable
table of contents is virtually
useless because none of the pages
are numbered - except for pages
30 and 32, where the numbers are
written in by hand. These are
perhaps small matters, but that is
all the more reason not to let
sloppiness in the handling of them
take the luster off "Unicorn's"
otherwise pleasant appearance.

Ed.)