Council Plans Forum On Revenue Problems Of College Magazines

"We've had reports of publications that are in big trouble," says Cornelius J. Minihan '63, chairman of the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, "And we feel that we are in a good position to moderate."

HCUA sent out letters yesterday to all Harvard organizations which solicit advertising, proposing a forum to study the problems which publications face in securing advertising revenue. Allen McK, Terrell, Jr. '65, the Council member who will moderate the forum, suggested that the organizations agree on a uniform advertising rate. Alternatively, they might limit the time during which advertising might be solicited.

Declaring that the principal function of the proposed forum will be to bring the organizations together to discuss their common problems and to "help ease the tensions" among them, Minihan observed that "most of the time in the past, they have refused to talk to each other."

Fewer Ads Available

Minihan said the problem of inadequate advertising revenue is due to a lessening of the total available advertising around the Square in recent years.

The letter inviting participation in the proposed forum states that the HCUA "does not plan to enter directly into these discussions...The Council is simply offering to organize a forum, moderate it, and study the problems that may be raised."