The Paperless Publisher

WHEN ALUMNI MAGAZINE INTERN JONATHAN KOHL '92 suggested a cover story on the environment, we sat up and listened. This biology major is not just an experienced magazine writer—he has already founded a magazine, the world's first electronic environmental journal. Conceived by Jon in 1989, the magazine goes over Blitz Mail, Dartmouth's electronic-mail system, to more than 600 computers all over campus. "Sense of Place" (the name comes from one of Presidentjohn Sloan Dickey '29's favorite expressions) contains glitzy computer graphics, hard environmental news, and some student proselytizing. Stories cover everything from Dartmouth's Earth Day celebrations to the Upper Valley environment's effect on writers.

So why not print the thing in the conventional way? "It conserves paper," Jon explains. "Its medium is its message."