Thricely? Is that even a word? No matter: it’s what Scope Quarterly has become — Scope thricely.
This year’s spring issue appears in alumni mailboxes in late April. But this summer we won’t be printing, and we’ll omit the summer edition every year into the foreseeable future. We’re sorry to have less frequent contact with our readers, but in the current financial and electronic circumstances this arrangement has so many up-sides that nobody could argue against it.
* Saving one issue per year means the planet saves 2.2 million pages of paper, plus buckets of ink and solvents, and untold kilowatts to run huge presses and dryers and binders and bundlers.
* Skipping that one issue saves Skidmore more than $20,000 in printing costs and another $10,000 in postage.
* Now that Skidmore offers its ScopeMonthly e-mail and various Web news outlets, Scope readers can pick up and share a lot of news online, without having to wait for the magazine.
* The upcoming fall magazine will be a bonanza — catching up on spring and summer news and also providing an in-depth look at the hot-button issue of whether liberal-arts colleges like Skidmore are really worth their big pricetags.
So have a nice, slow summer. And in September look for a big, busy fall Scope crammed with photos and stories about Skidmore’s big, busy community of students, professors, coaches and counselors, alumni, parents, guest artists…
