Advocate Printing

Harvard's student-run literary and arts magazine, The Advocate, is expected to appear Monday, a month behind schedule, for the first time this year.

The staff's search for a new printer delayed the publication, Richard V. Nalley '79, president of The Advocate, said Thursday.

"We were ready to go a long time ago. Without a printer, we didn't feel the need to hurry," Owen Andrews '79, the magazine's poetry editor, said. He added that Wellesley Press Inc., the old printer, "didn't want to do business with us any longer."

Nally said the printing firm had expanded in size since The Advocate began printing there in September 1976.

"As they expanded, it wasn't worth while for them to handle The Advocate," he added.

Frank Manning, a salesman for the Wellesley Press, said yesterday his firm told The Advocate last May it would not publish the magazine starting this year because it no longer fit the firm's production process.

Manning added that The Advocate also had credit problems and was 120-150 days overdue on each payment.

Pronto-Graphic Inc. of Burlington, Mass. will print the first issue this year.

The Advocate plans to publish four times this year, just as it did last year, and the second issue should appear in January, Andrews said.

Ideally, the first issue comes out before Thanksgiving and the second one before Christmas so as to obtain the most advertising revenue, Andrews added.