Several College Editors Organize Daily Chicago Convention Paper

A group of college newspaper editors will be putting out a daily newspaper in Chicago during the week of the Democratic Convention.

The paper will be called Sunday/Friday, because it will be published each day beginning Sunday, Aug. 25, and ending Friday, Aug. 30. It will be a tabloid with a press run of 100,000.

Roger Black, editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Maroon, is the editor-in-chief of the convention paper, and he already has a managing editor, an advertising manager, and the beginnings of a staff. The paper has an editorial board of editors of cooperating college papers around the country, including the Harvard Crimson.

While the stated purpose of the publication is to give "direct, specific, on-the-spot, in depth coverage of a national party convention," it is obvious that an unstated purpose is to focus attention on the efforts of supporters of Sen. Eugene McCarthy and other groups aiming to stop Vice-President Humphrey.

Sunday/Friday is non-profit, and nearly all the staff will be working on a volunteer basis. Expenses will be met through advertising and subscriptions. There will also be a classified ad section, serving primarily as a message bureau for all the people who have come to Chicago.