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Anti-Junk Mail Issue

I just finished the June issue. The cover story about George Loewenstein [Buyer Beware] and Michael Choe [Global Education] were great. There is no chance our magazine will end up in the junk mail pile. I guess it’s just the special place I hold in my heart for Carnegie Mellon.

–Ray Sears (E’74)
Oklahoma City

The redesign of the print magazine is a marked improvement over the previous format. I’ve long felt that the magazine looked amateurish and overly commercial and did not reflect the intellectual and artistic quality of the school I am so proud to have attended. Thank you also for lengthening the feature articles and replacing sound bites with more thought-provoking commentary. My graduate school roommate was a Yalie, and over two years I became jealous of her journalistically superior alumni magazine and disappointed in my own. There is still room for improvement, but the recent changes represent huge strides in the right direction.

–Rachel Delphia (A’02)
Pittsburgh

I received the magazine in the mail (shocking by today’s standards!). I was struck by the graphics and then by the content. I actually read it from cover to cover, not because I had the time, but because I was interested in the articles—the subjects and the diversity. Nothing from Carnegie Mellon has caught my attention or informed me like this last issue. Keep up the fantastic work. You have awakened the heart of an engineer. Bravo.

–Paul Magnuson (E’66)
Stuart, Florida

Paraphrasing Sally Field

After tabulating the results from last issue’s readership survey, it’s clear: “You like us, you really like us!” Thanks for all those who took the time to fill out the survey and please continue to send us your feedback, pro and con. Here are some of the readership survey highlights:
Visual Design:
            90%           Excellent or Good
            8%             Average
            2%             Below Average or Poor
Organization:
            88%           Excellent or Good
            10%           Average
            2%             Below Average or Poor
Writing Quality:
            88%           Excellent or Good
            11%           Average
            1%             Below Average or Poor
Story Selection:
            81%           Excellent or Good
            17%           Average
            2%             Below Average or Poor
Readability:
            84%           Excellent or Good
            12%           Average
            4%             Below Average or Poor

Readership Survey Comments

“Excellent magazine! I read it cover to cover, especially liked Double Feature, Buyer Beware, and See the Light.”

“This issue, with the articles on psychology of purchasing and drama alumni who’ve made good, was especially resonant to me. I hope to see more issues like it.”