[lbo-talk] Women's Review of Books going under

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug Henwood posted:
>Chronicle of Higher Education - November 12, 2004
>
>HOT TYPE
>'Women's Review of Books' Will Fold Its Covers
>
>By SCOTT McLEMEE
<snip>
>Don't bother searching for the PS saying "... unless you act now!" 
>The time for fund-raising appeals is long over. The Review, which 
>has its office in the Wellesley Centers for Women, has been 
>operating at a deficit since the mid-1990s and now owes its host 
>more than $200,000. (Wellesley College does not provide a subvention 
>to the Review, and most of the annual budget for the Centers for 
>Women comes from foundation and corporate grants.)

Scott McLemee ought to have added info about Wellesley's endowment to 
his article about the demise of _Women's Review of Books_: Wellesley, 
ranked "17th among U.S. colleges and universities in endowment per 
student," has "an endowment that is valued at more than $1 billion" 
("The Wellesley Campaign," 
<http://www.wellesley.edu/Resources/why/wellesley.html>).  Surely, 
the college could have eliminated the journal's debt and subsidized 
the publication of its future issues.
-- 
Yoshie

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