 Dialogue's first issue will be released today.
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Where can one find essays detailing the philosophical benefits of surfing, insights into childhood imagination, and an analysis of chaos theory? Within the pages of Dialogue, Boston College's newly developed interdisciplinary essay journal, which releases its inaugural issue today and can be found in a residence hall lobbies near you. Conceived by the trio of Paul Camacho, editor in chief and A&S '07; Dimitri Phillips, managing editor and A&S '07; and Michael Camacho, assistant managing editor and A&S '09; Dialogue is a cross between the more-creative literary magazine, Stylus, and the more technical research journal, Elements.
Paul Camacho describes the style of the essays as "written to be read … they are meant to be entertaining and endearing … less technical and more readable." The journal intends to spark dialogue, as its title describes, and Camacho hopes that it will provide students with a vehicle with which to express their ideas in the intellectual campus community.
Amanda Carhart, senior layout editor and A&S '07, traced the initial spark for the development of the journal back to a discussion in Phillips' apartment that would have been dismissed had Philips and the Camacho brothers not taken a sincere interest in developing it. They used the connections they made as upperclassmen to garner financial support as well as the council from administrators at the Office of Residential Life, Intersections, and the University Honors Program.
Carhart led the design team who, in effort to bring the words of these essays to life, worked closely with the Office of Marketing Communication, which acted as a liaison between the publisher and the students.
"We had to sell the idea without anything to hold in our hands," said Camacho. Still, he was impressed by the University's overwhelming response. They were all very receptive to the idea of a journal that intended to bring intellectual dialogue outside of the classroom.
Assembling an energetic staff in addition to the core group of founders and their interested friends was done mostly through word of mouth and faculty publicity. Editors came from a variety of academic backgrounds, which coincided well with the journal's interdisciplinary mission.
