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Logo[edit]

If anyone has the newspaper logo, please feel free to add it. Maltmomma ^(chat) 00:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Added. jareha 22:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Awards[edit]

If anyone knows the awards won, please list. Thanks! Maltmomma ^(chat) 02:37, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh boy...[edit]

...this is dangerous! =D · Katefan0^(scribble) 02:51, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I knew you'd have fun with it. ;-) I can't find any listing of the awards or much history. Take the ball and run! Maltmomma ^(chat)

03:29, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I look at some of the other school's newspapers and think, we could look as good. Maltmomma ^(chat) 03:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, that didn't sound right. I looked at some of the other school newspaper's Wikipedia articles and think we could look as good.

Newspaper infobox[edit]

Just added a newspaper infobox — please edit at will. Hopefully you all like the logo and front page uploads made. jareha 22:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great. Maybe a tad too wide? That may be resolved when the text is fleshed out, but right now it looks a little overpowering in IE. · Katefan0^(scribble)/mrp 22:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Guess this is an excuse to flesh out the history a bit more. :) Know what you mean about "overpowering" the page, but IE...you lost me there. Hop on the Mozilla Firefox bandwagon, Kate. jareha 22:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, yeah. You technocrats are so oppressive. ;) I like what I've got just fine, thank you! Beyond which, most people viewing Wikipedia's pages are also likely using IE, so I figure I'm pretty useful being in the 5% of non-techie editors who can complain when something looks funny in IE. · Katefan0^(scribble)/mrp 23:02, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a better term than neutral for political position? (As that article is currently a disambiguation page.) How about neutral point of view — although that article definitely needs fleshing out. jareha 03:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I think it's sort of a useless tag. What newspaper is going to call itself not neutral? Other than things like The Nation, etc. · Katefan0^(scribble)/mrp 14:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think a lot of people would agree that the paper has a slightly liberal slant, given its endorsements in the past elections and the general demeanor of the op-eds that they publish. What does everyone think? -Scm83x 16:03, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would only agree to characterizing their editorial board as liberal. Please remember that op-eds and opinion pieces are NOT the entriety of a newspaper. · Katefan0^(scribble)/mrp 16:21, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Combining with your other comment from above, maybe the tag on the infobox should be changed to say something like "Editorial political position" or something more succinct than that. Just my thoughts. -Scm83x 16:45, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The editorial stance is decidedly leftist, not liberal, to use the traditional meanings of the words. --Davidstrauss 08:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It varies. Remember, the editor is elected, and it is the editor who stewards the opinion page and hires the columnists and associate editors. Sometimes the editors are liberal, sometimes conservative (as was the case a number of times in the 1990s). Dedman 16:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remember back around 1989 or 1990 when the editors had a contest to provide an alternate name for the paper, and the winner was "Das KapiTexan" (recalling Das Kapital by Karl Marx). I put in for a T-shirt they made to commemorate the name, but unfortunately they ran out. Afalbrig 14:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]