The Chronicle

Issue date: 2/27/07 Section: News
Last update: 2/27/07 at 8:44 AM EST

Media Credit: Special to the Chronicle Patchwork, a social justice publication from UNC students, will be distributed at Duke starting in May.

Undergraduates will have another opportunity to team up with rivals down the road via Patchwork Magazine, a social justice publication.

Patchwork, founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by senior Marissa Heyl in 2004, will expand to Duke with its next issue released at the end of the semester.

"The collaboration would contribute a lot to both universities' goals to bring diversity and internationalization to campus," said Heyl, who is also co-editor-in-chief of the magazine.

Patchwork publishes two issues each semester, with a total circulation of 2,000 copies, and Heyl said she hopes to expand production to 5,000 to 6,000 copies per semester after the collaboration.

In the effort to promote awareness and activism among college students, each issue of the magazine focuses on a specific theme such as women's rights or global health.

The next issue on student social entrepreneurship will feature students from the Fuqua School of Business, Heyl said.

She added that the resources available at Duke will enhance the content of the magazine, and that the long-term goal is to create a chapter of the publication at Duke to match the one already in existence at UNC.

"I would like to form a longstanding partnership with Duke that would allow both schools to get involved in a collaborative effort to work for positive change in the world," Heyl said. "There are wonderful resources at both universities and it's about expanding the discussion."

UNC senior Peter Cvelich, co-editor-in-chief of Patchwork, said Duke students have a strong background in global issues that would complement the technical training UNC students receive at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

"I think we [at UNC] have the opportunity to focus on aspects of publication, writing and layout," he said. "But Duke has a very strong international program, and they have a lot of students who are internationally minded."

Heyl said Patchwork is also looking to collaborate with Passport Magazine, a Duke publication that focuses primarily on internationally themed issues, including social justice and study abroad experiences.

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