NARRATOR：

Listen to a conversation

between the two student editors of a photography magazine called Campus Photo Monthly.

MALE STUDENT：

We're in trouble, Barbara.

I don't think we can put together next month's issue.

There just aren't enough good photos.

FEMALE STUDENT：

[Complaining] It's getting harder and harder to put together an issue.

MALE STUDENT：

Yeah, and this month is the worst ever.

I don't get it. I mean,

students are submitting lots of photographs, but

I think we've only got fifteen that are worth publishing.

And we can't print the magazine with only fifteen photographs.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Well, maybe we're being too selective.

What if we used photos that maybe aren't great, but-

MALE STUDENT：

-but that aren't horrible?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Right. I mean, some of these photographs we get from beginning photographers may not be the best,

but, if we lowered our standards just a bit, we'd have a lot more photos to publish...

MALE STUDENT：

Sure, but we'd have to be careful.

We don't want to get a reputation for publishing low-quality work.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Well...[pause, reflecting]maybe,

you know, maybe we're just publishing too frequently.

What if we stopped publishing every month, and instead, you know, if we just published every two months?

We'd have a lot more submissions to choose from so we could pick and choose and still publish only the good ones.

MALE STUDENT：

I guess. But people on campus sorta' expect us to publish every month.

I mean, we are Campus Photo Monthly, aren't we?