Yale Conservatives Publish Inaugural Issue of Weekly

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--A new Yale newspaper this week joined a growing list of conservative campus publications that includes The Harvard Salient and The Dartmouth Review.

The Yale Free Press, whose four-page first issue appeared Monday, is receiving money from the same source that has funded these two other publications, but its creators say the resemblance stops there. The Yale Daily News reported last week.

"We're interested in being a responsible and respectable conservative voice at Yale, which I don't feel exists currently. "Editor-in-Chief Victor Lazaron '84 said last week.

Its creators hope to begin a weekly "forum for conservative politics and Yale issues, as well as straight reporting. "Publisher Charles Bork '81, said recently.

The masthead will list a five-member advisory board which includes U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and National Review Senior Editor Richard Brookhiser.

Eventually, the newspaper, which has received a grant from the Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA) in New York City, hopes to have a circulation of 10,000. Bork added.

The IEA is an educational foundation that supports scholars and writers in the humanities and social sciences, said IEA Executive Director Philip Marcus.

IEA also provides grants to the Yale Political Quarterly, the Yale Literary Magazine and The Harvard Salient. Marcus added.

It formerly supported The Dartmouth Review a student conservative paper that sparked anger and censure last spring for what some Dartmouth faculty and students alleged were racist and sexist articles.

Bork said. "We're not modeling ourselves after them." adding. "We will bear little or no resemblance to The Dartmouth Review."

In addition, the Press expects to receive funds from the John M. Olin Foundation, a group which "loves to support conservative publications," Lazaron said.