A newly-formed corporation attempting to promote community activism is initiating its first project with the development of "the voice of the community" - a journal of local writing.

The Other Half, Inc., will begin publishing a collection of essays, stories and poetry this fall, according to the initial edition of The Lionhearted. The Lionhearted announced the coalition of alumni, students, faculty and residents last week.

University Board of Trustees member Ben Novak refused to comment on his affiliation with the group, but said information would be released at a news conference tomorrow morning.

The corporation's founders will hold a meeting at 7:30 Wednesday night in the Beaver Room of Hotel State College for anyone interested in the journal, said James E. VanHorn Jr. (sophomore-finance), the magazine's editor-in-chief.

"The Lionhearted is a new initiative by students, alumni, and faculty of Penn State and the citizens of the Nittany Valley," VanHorn said.

VanHorn said Novak is involved but would not specify his role in developing the magazine.

A list of the journal's incorporators and the board of directors will be released at the conference, VanHorn said. The first complete issue will be published this fall, he added.

Pamphlets explaining the group's plans were distributed in Willard Building since the middle of last week. Barb Zimmerman, a secretary in human resources at the Office of the Physical Plant, said no one in the office knew where the 15-page pamphlets had been delivered. She did note that one of the staff members there received a copy in campus mail.

Vicki Fong, University spokeswoman, said she had heard about the pamphlets but did not know where they had been distributed.

According to the pamphlet, the journal is only the first project for The Other Half, Inc., "an independent, non-profit corporation through which students, alumni, faculty and townspeople can do things without having to ask anyone else's permission."

"Several students, alumni, faculty and townspeople got together and said, 'Let's stop asking the Administration to do things for us; let's just do them ourselves,' " the pamphlet reads. "We believe that protests, demonstrations and demands are silly when you can just go out and do things for yourself."

VanHorn, state secretary of the Pennsylvania College Republicans and vice-chairman of the Penn State chapter, said he is enthusiastic about the project.

"Personally, I love to read and I'm fascinated by things other than the world of finance," he said.