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Conceived and published by University of Pennsylvania junior William A. Frankel, the inaugural issue of the Ivy Sound contains articles, opinion pieces and features on subjects ranging from tenure processes at the Ivies, to the current Iran crisis, to the best places to "drink, dance, and hang out" at the different schools...
...Frankel said the idea for the Sound came to him last winter, when apartheid protests abounded at the Ancient Eight. "I was thinking that the protest would become stronger if schools could combine forces, maybe through a publication," he said. "The Ivy League needs a forum itself to become stronger...
According to Harvard bureau chief Peter A. Robertson '88, Frankel also needed a plan to create a profitable business for one of his classes at Penn's Wharton School of Business. So after doing research into the logistics of such an inter-Ivy publication, he began to create a "network through friends and contacts" of students at the different campuses to write and distribute his brainchild, Frankel said...
...Frankel said the Sound's first issue did not clear a profit, and said that making money off the venture was not a consideration. Other principal staff members echoed those sentiments, but, according to Princeton bureau chief David Frank, the Ivy tabloid was "not founded as a non-profit corporation." Frank added that the only people who stand to make a profit are the staff at Penn...
...Frankel said funding for the paper, which is completely independent of any school, came from "private investment," though he would not elaborate on his sources...