Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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...
Despite its far-reaching staff, the roots of the Ivy Sound are at Penn--the source of all its editors and production staff. Frankel's own roommates Devin A. Schain, Steve B. Alloy, and Steven B. Gould hold the posts of general manager, operations manager, and business manager, respectively...
Robertson said he supports the ideas behind the Ivy Sound, although his involvement will only be temporary. "There are a lot of rivalries and friendships at the Ivy League schools," he said. "People are always re-inventing the wheel because they don't know what's happening on other campuses...
Many students at the different Ivies were more critical of the Sound's purpose, and value, as an exclusively Ivy-League publication...