Board of Student Publications.
     Records, 1933-1971.
     3.3 linear ft. (8 boxes)

     The Board of Student Publications was created in 1933 to exercise the supervisory functions of the Faculty Committee on Student Publications.  Unlike its predecessor, the board also included student representatives.  Membership consisted of three faculty members appointed by the President and three students elected by the student body.  The head of the Journalism Dept. served as chair and voted only to break a tie.  In the 1950s, an electoral board was created consisting of the members of the publication board, the Honor Court Chancellor, and the Student Body President. The electoral board was given the responsibility for selecting the officers of the publications supported with student fees. The publications board was abolished in the early 1970s.
     The series consists primarily of the Board's minutes.  The minutes reflect the occasional rancor that ensued over the content of articles in the student newspapers and other publications.  Several controversies are documented in unusual detail including an apparent verbatim transcript of proceedings related to a 1952 incident involving the campus satire magazine, the Orange Peel.  Other records include electoral board minutes and financial statements.

Contents list

Box 1

  History of the Board, 1933-1958, and org. chart
  Alligator
       Awards, 1970-1972
       Electoral board minutes, 1942-1947; 1950-1958 (2 folders)
  Banquet programs
  Budgets
  Committee on Student Academic Freedom, 1967

Box 2

  Correspondence, 1965
  Duties of employees and officers
  Electoral Board Minutes (4 folders)
       1947-1948
       1956-1964

Box 3

       1964-1965
  Exhibits and schedules
  Finance Committee minutes, 1963
  Minutes
       1933-1937 (4 folders)

Box 4
 
        1937-1947 (5 folders)
Box 5

        1949-1952 (5 folders)

Box 6

       1952-1961 (4 folders)

Box 7

       1961-1968 (5 folders)

Box 8

       1968-1970
  Misc. minutes, 1970
  Notes of executive committee meeting, 1971
  Policies and charters
  Study Commission on Student Publications, 1967