"It's our sincere hope that we can pull it off because it will mark the beginning of the road towards our redefinition," said Jay W. Glaubach '97, Lighthouse's managing editor.

He also said that while the magazine does experience rapid turnover, he does not think it is because of dissent.

Rather, he said it is because Lighthouse did not have a comp until this year, so members did not feel committed to the magazine.

Majmudar said she quit for this reason.

Meanwhile, former staffers said that other magazines for women's issues are springing up on campus. The Tampoon, a magazine that addresses women's issues in a humorous format, published its first issue last year and is working on another for November.

Tampoon applied for grants and is trying to solicit more advertisers and writers this year so it can be dropped at doors in all undergraduate dorms, according to Co-editor Liz W. Schoyer '97.

"If Lighthouse goes under and a women's magazine needs to step up and fill that role...we would fill that role," she added.

Another magazine, Sponge, is also being organized.

And Common Knowledge, the newsletter of the Lyman Common Room, is currently distributed to between 1,500 and 2,000 people, according to Co-editor Mia Bagneris '99.

Bagneris, who is also involved with the Lighthouse Conference, said the conference and the magazine had shared a bank account but are now in the process of separating their accounts.

The conference, which draws about 150 female high school students to Radcliffe every year, was originally a fundraiser for the magazine. But for the past several years, the conference has been more of a public service than a fundraiser, Bagneris said.

The money earned by the conference was recorded in the magazine's account even though it was not money the magazine could use.

"[The magazine's business managers] don't know how much money they really have," Bagneris said. "In the interest of straightening out the finances, we will become two separate organizations."

In addition, the shared account requires conference organizers to obtain magazine editors' approval before signing checks or depositing money