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The Plague
First issue1978 (1978)
CountryUnited States
Based inKimmel Center, New York University
Websitewww.nyu.edu/clubs/plague

The Plague is New York University's campus comedy magazine. Like many college humor magazines, The Plague often pokes fun at popular culture as well as campus life and the idiosyncrasies of New York University.[1]

History[edit]

The Plague was founded in 1978[2] by Howard Ostrowsky along with Amy Burns, John Rawlins, Joe Pinto and Dan Fiorella,[3] and is currently published once per semester.[4] It is not NYU's first humor magazine, as The Medley was a humor magazine published by the Eucleian Society from 1913 to 1950.[1]

The Plague has been mentioned in the book Writers Writing by English professors Lil Brannon[5] and Melinda Knight[6] as "hilarious",[7] as well as been listed in The directory of humor magazines in America.[8]

An excerpt from the 1980 issue was published[9] in two Sherlock Holmes compendia, the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota[10] and the French-language Sherlock Holmes dans tous ses états.[11]

In the 1990s, "The Plague" interviewed pornographer Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine. This lead to a complaint from an NYU employee to the New York City Commission on Human Rights and a subsequent article in the Washington Square News titled "Plague Staff Accused of Human Rights Abuse".

The magazine's office is located in the Kimmel Center where the student staff writes and lays out the magazine.[4]

Material from recent issues has been highlighted in Page Six of the New York Post for its satire on topics from NYU President John Sexton[12] to U.S. President George W. Bush.[13]

The Plague, as it relies much on fake news satire à la The Onion, has over the years come into a friendly rivalry with campus newspaper, the Washington Square News.[14] That the WSN frequently attempts an essay at humor on April Fools' Day makes the newspaper a target for parody, reports NYU's other newspaper, the NYU Local.[15]

Notable alumni[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b The Archivists' Angle: The Medley NYU Alumni Connect 2009
  2. ^ History of The Plague NYU Plague History page
  3. ^ Memories of The Plague
  4. ^ a b NYU Plague About page The Plague's meeting times and place
  5. ^ Dr. Lil Brannon CV at UNCC
  6. ^ Dr. Melinda Knight CV at Montclair
  7. ^ Brannon, Lil; Knight, Melinda (1982). Writers Writing. Boynton/Cook Publishers. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0867090451.
  8. ^ Ellenbogen, Glenn (1992). The directory of humor magazines and humor organizations in America (and Canada). Wry-Bred Press. p. 148.
  9. ^ Plague at NYU "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes and the Angry Author"
  10. ^ Burt De Waal, Ronald; Vanderburgh, George (1994). The Universal Sherlock Holmes, Volume 4. Language Arts & Disciplines. Note that the issue was mistakenly credited as the parody title, not the magazine title
  11. ^ Fiorella, Dan (1994). Sherlock Holmes dans tous ses états. Rivages. ISBN 978-2743617349.
  12. ^ Campus Cretins NY Post, February 18th, 2007
  13. ^ Sophmoric Mag Take Whack NY Post, September 25th, 2006
  14. ^ Cocktails with Cretins, an Interview with The Plague Washington Square News, April 21, 1994
  15. ^ Inside Washington, I mean, Union Square News NYU Local, April 27th, 2009
  16. ^ ‘Star Trek Destiny’ author David Mack’s Borg epic comes full cube Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2012
  17. ^ Milano's LinkedIn
  18. ^ 30 Rock Supporting Main Characters Fictional Character Database, March 7, 2012

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