Despite starting the semester with just $50 to its name, campus literary journal Vantage Point will survive to print another year, thanks in part to contributions from SGA?s Finance Committee, committee leader Andrew Daughtery said.The committee has decided to allot the journal $6,500 for fiscal year 2014?an increase of roughly $4,000 from last year? after the literary magazine lost its funding from the English department this past year, Daugherty said.?It?s huge for the future of our journal,? Vantage Point editor-in-chief senior Julian Van der Tak said. ?It ensures that we can print successful issues in the next three semesters.?Until this year, Vantage Point received 45 percent of its funding from SGA and the Buckham fund, a $3.5 million grant from the school to the English department to help with English department-related publications, trips, grants, societies, etc., Van der Tak said.This year, however, the Buckham fund ran out, leaving Vantage Point without a significant portion of its budget.?We had enough money to print last semester, but at the beginning of this semester we literally had no money,? Van Der Tak said.SGA?s finance committee decided to increase funding to Vantage Point after the club submitted a budget proposal that included a request for $12,000, Daugherty said.?We said ?all right, you lost that external source of funding, so now we have to make up that part of the fund,?? he said.The finance committee has around $1.3 million to allocate to the 170 clubs, but the requested amount is about $3.2 million, Daugherty said.?There?s a huge discrepancy between what they ask for and what we actually have,? Daugherty said.These financial setbacks have also meant the journal has had to make artistic adjustments, Van der Tak said.?It?s harder to build on a theme when you have [fewer] people submitting and less space to create the journal you want to create,? he said. ?We should have been meeting since the first week of school, but because we weren?t even sure that we were going to be able to be a club, we had to start late.?Literary Assistant Doug Taylor said that Vantage Point is also thinking of doing events to increase membership.?It?s been a little better these past couple weeks?we?ve had 11 or 12 [members] most nights,? he said. ?But I remember when I did it last year, there were like 25 people.?Taylor said the journal would be hosting events such as poetry readings and an open mic night. ?I know that there are a lot of events like that already, but another one won?t hurt,? he said.Under the looming budget cuts, Vantage Point began to look for ways to keep its journal alive. Now the journal is toying with the idea of a blog, which would include more visual media and longer pieces, Taylor said.?Because it?s so expensive to print in color, the amount of art submissions that we accept is really low,? he said. The blog would include more art, and include longer works that would normally be cut from the journal, he said.?We usually cap it at about four pages, and with the size of the journal, four pages is only about 700 words,? he said.Taylor said he would be concerned about a blog complicating the selection process.?It would definitely lengthen the end-of-semester review process, because [pieces] could go into the journal or into the blog,? he said.First-year Alison Frank said she thinks the paper should do more to get more members to join.?I mean maybe put [Vantage Point] in dorms,? she said. ?I always see papers in my building.?For now the journal will exist for three more semesters and will continue its search for new members.