|
The Muse (student Paper)
''The Muse'', successor to ''the Memorial Times'', began publishing in 1950 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, as an unnamed paper. That paper held a contest to choose a new name, the winner being a professor who named the paper after all of the following: *a bastardization of the Greek letters Μ and υ, for Memorial University; *a reference to the Muse, Greek goddesses of the arts; *a joke, saying this was MU's (Memorial University's) paper; *and the role of a paper as a place where students could muse. Beginning with a small editorial staff controlled by the Students' union, student union, ''The Muse'' grew into an autonomous student-run paper. In the early years of publication, it was a campus gossip tabloid; in the late 1960s it developed an activist flair which attracted the attention of the provincial government and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), with the latter including ''The Muse'' in their investigations of supposedly Marxist organizations. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Memorial Times
''The Memorial Times'' was a publication of Memorial University, Memorial University College prior to its successor, ''The Muse (student paper), The Muse''. The ''Times'', the first student newspaper of Memorial University, was started at least as early as November 28, 1936, in a bimonthly format. The periodical continued (with a gap from March 1937-November 30, 1945) until December 19, 1947, by which it had moved to a monthly edition. Editors * Michael Harrington, Nov. 28, 1936. * I. Newell, May 4, 1937. * Al Taylor, Nov. 30-Dec. 18, 1945. * Bill Summers, Mar. 20, 1946. * F. W. Rowe, Aug. 14, 1946. * Edison J. Lowe and John A. Ryan, Nov. 14-Dec. 19, 1947. References Newspapers published in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial Times, The Student newspapers published in Canada, Memorial Times, The Memorial University of Newfoundland Defunct newspapers published in Newfoundland and Labrador Publications disestablished in 1947 Publications with year of establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Butt
Donna may refer to the short form of the honorific ''nobildonna'', the female form of Don (honorific) in Italian. People *Donna (given name); includes name origin and list of people and characters with the name * Roberto Di Donna (born 1968), Italian sports shooter * Fernand Donna (1922–1988), French sprint canoeist Places *Donna, Texas, USA *Dønna, Norway * Donna (crater), a tiny lunar crater on the near side of the Moon Music * The Donnas, American all-girl rock band * Donna (radio station), former Flemish music radio station located in Belgium * ''Donna'' (album), album by Donna Cruz * "Donna" (Ritchie Valens song), a 1958 song by Ritchie Valens, covered in the United Kingdom by Marty Wilde * "Donna" (10cc song), a 1972 song by 10cc * "Donna", song from ''Hair'' *"Donna", song by Wally Lewis * " Donna, Donna", a Yiddish song * " Donna the Prima Donna", a 1963 song by Dion Other * Hurricane Donna Hurricane Donna, known in Puerto Rico as Hurricane San Lorenzo, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |