Yard Paper

A lack of funds has indefinitely postponed publication of the freshman newspaper. The Weather, and its editor is unsure if another issue will be published.

Peter J. Howe '86, editor and publisher of The Weather, planned to distribute the third issue of the paper Tuesday. But with only $8 in the publication's bank account and $170 needed to subsidize typesetting and layout costs, he said that he was forced to halt publication.

The first two issues of The Weather were subsidized by a combination of ad revenues, a $210 grant from the Undergraduate Council, and $150 appropriated for freshman projects by the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), Sandra L. Grace '86. The Weather's business manager said.

Alice N. Hackman, an FDO staff member, yesterday declined to release the total amount allocated by the Freshman Dean's Office for freshman projects. She did say, though, that the FDO provided The Weather with an additional $150 from an anonymous fund, supposedly comprised, according to Howe, of uncollected deposits from freshmen who rent bedboards.

This semester The Weather received an additional $290 from the Council to subsidize printing expenses, leaving the paper to fund the remainder of its production costs. Grace said that only $64 of the $170 necessary to publish the next issue had been raised through ad sales.

Jake J. Stevens '86, chairman of the Council's Communication and Finance Committee, said yesterday that the council's limited budget prevented it from subsidizing the entire $460 necessary to finance a third issue of The Weather

He added that the committee also felt that The Weather's staff had not made a substantial effort to raise money by selling advertisements.

"Our expectation when we gave them money in December was that they were going to get ads." Stevens said. "We all certainly think it's a worthwhile venture, but for long-term stability they should be looking at other sources of money."

Howe said that he had unsuccessfully attempted to secure funds from the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Lampoon, and other groups which endow arts projects.