Student Review is back

[Shaka]

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I loved Student Review

[oxcoug]

Cld be good - hope they don't suck.

My bro was the editor in (if I recall) 1991-1992. They actually did good stuff then, before later disintegrating into something of a hack rag. They did interviews with Lee and Oaks during my bro's tenure and weren't just poser wannabe dissidents that later came to characterize the brand.

Probably their single largest impact on... well, anything that mattered... was the expose they ran on Karl Snow's shady business dealings with an extra run of something like 30,000 copies that they distributed all over Utah Valley. Bill Orton credits that with turning the polls around and setting him on the path to victory.

I also enjoyed the annual issue of the Daily Unifarce, which was all parody of the Universe.

I also enjoyed the occasional "photo of the issue" which usually highlighted something absurd in the HC.

Hope these guys maintain a good balance between intelligent alternative reporting and contrarian time-wasting. And of course I know exactly what that balance is.

[Shaka]

I swear DP Sorensen, who writes the satire column for City Weekly, used to write for the Student Review.

It would be cool if someone published all the old issues online. That would almost be better than going through a yearbook.

[RobinFinderson]

Cld be good - hope they don't suck.

My bro was the editor in (if I recall) 1991-1992. They actually did good stuff then, before later disintegrating into something of a hack rag. They did interviews with Lee and Oaks during my bro's tenure and weren't just poser wannabe dissidents that later came to characterize the brand.

Probably their single largest impact on... well, anything that mattered... was the expose they ran on Karl Snow's shady business dealings with an extra run of something like 30,000 copies that they distributed all over Utah Valley. Bill Orton credits that with turning the polls around and setting him on the path to victory.

I also enjoyed the annual issue of the Daily Unifarce, which was all parody of the Universe.

I also enjoyed the occasional "photo of the issue" which usually highlighted something absurd in the HC.

Hope these guys maintain a good balance between intelligent alternative reporting and contrarian time-wasting. And of course I know exactly what that balance is.

I was one of said editors during its last days of hackery. I also witnessed its some of its last days of greatness in '92, when as you say, it was still a decent paper. The change happened over the two years when I was on my mission, and I believe it was the direct result of two blows from the University.

First, the dissolution of the Honors Program as a social group essentially ended the weekly gatherings where the University's best and brightest would come together on the steps of the Maeser Building and perform intelligent 'tricks', as it were, to impress the other sex. Student Review was born out of this, and continued to recruit at these meetings. This was also the social milieu that gave rise to Vocal Point in '91, and was friendly with members of Stretch Armstrong, who did a number of exclusive performances at/for Honors hosted events. Those were some good times, and are very much attributable to the leadership of Honors Program Dean Miller.

When I came back from my mission in '95, Dean Miller had been replaced by Honors Dean Cox, a campus favorite for his lectures on the flying fox, a humongous bat that was the focus of his research. Cox, as it turned out, was there to carry water for the administration, which had come to see the chummy gatherings of the Honors program as a breeding ground for apostates, homosexuals and rabble rousers. Under Cox, the Honors Program devolved into a academic credentialing through honors classes and a capstone thesis. The once-hopping Maeser building became one more stolid administration facility, though it still maintained some of the nicest bathrooms on campus. The close-knit relationship between the Honors Program and and Student Review was dissolved.

The second SR-killing move by the University also came at the recommendation of the traitor Dean Cox -- it was forbidden to distribute the newspaper on campus. Instead of filling racks next to the entrance of the HBLL, distribution became limited to a handful of racks on the periphery of campus. This move eliminated 99% of the distribution, who were casual readers who would pick up copies on campus. The loss of readers resulted in the loss of advertisers, which further diminished the quality of the paper.

And that is how the cookie crumbled.

[oxcoug]

I was one of said editors during its last days of hackery. I also witnessed its some of its last days of greatness in '92, when as you say, it was still a decent paper. The change happened over the two years when I was on my mission, and I believe it was the direct result of two blows from the University.

First, the dissolution of the Honors Program as a social group essentially ended the weekly gatherings where the University's best and brightest would come together on the steps of the Maeser Building and perform intelligent 'tricks', as it were, to impress the other sex. Student Review was born out of this, and continued to recruit at these meetings. This was also the social milieu that gave rise to Vocal Point in '91, and was friendly with members of Stretch Armstrong, who did a number of exclusive performances at/for Honors hosted events. Those were some good times, and are very much attributable to the leadership of Honors Program Dean Miller.

When I came back from my mission in '95, Dean Miller had been replaced by Honors Dean Cox, a campus favorite for his lectures on the flying fox, a humongous bat that was the focus of his research. Cox, as it turned out, was there to carry water for the administration, which had come to see the chummy gatherings of the Honors program as a breeding ground for apostates, homosexuals and rabble rousers. Under Cox, the Honors Program devolved into a academic credentialing through honors classes and a capstone thesis. The once-hopping Maeser building became one more stolid administration facility, though it still maintained some of the nicest bathrooms on campus. The close-knit relationship between the Honors Program and and Student Review was dissolved.

The second SR-killing move by the University also came at the recommendation of the traitor Dean Cox -- it was forbidden to distribute the newspaper on campus. Instead of filling racks next to the entrance of the HBLL, distribution became limited to a handful of racks on the periphery of campus. This move eliminated 99% of the distribution, who were casual readers who would pick up copies on campus. The loss of readers resulted in the loss of advertisers, which further diminished the quality of the paper.

And that is how the cookie crumbled.

Interesting accounting RF - that timeline and string of causes makes sense.