Current Student front page example (March 14, 2006).

Student is a weekly Scottish independent newspaper produced by students at the University of Edinburgh. Founded in 1887 by author Robert Louis Stevenson, it is the oldest student newspaper in the United Kingdom and currently holds the title of Best Student Newspaper in Scotland, awarded by the Herald Student Press Awards in 2006 and 2007. Image File history File linksMetadata Student_front_14. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Student_front_14. ... is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the country. ... Freshman Year redirects here. ... The University of Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: ), founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ... Charles Mackintoshs Glasgow Herald building, now The Lighthouse The Herald is a national broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland, with an audited circulation of 71,000, making it the best-selling national Scottish broadsheet newspaper. ...

Student today

The newspaper is independent of the university and almost entirely independent of the students' association, which sells advertising on its behalf. This allows a higher degree of editorial independence than other student union or university-funded publications (the Edinburgh University Students' Association produces a fortnightly magazine called Hype). Many of Student's former writers have gone on to become internationally renowned journalists and politicians. Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) provides services, representation and welfare support to matriculated students of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

Past staff members of Student include the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown; Lord Steel; the late Robin Cook; singer Darius Danesh, and many of Fleet Street's reporters and editors. Recent graduates include Guardian staff writer and editor Helen Pidd and BBC radio reporter Chris Page. A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... For others with the same or similar names, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation). ... David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC (born 31 March 1938) is a British and Scottish politician and a Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords. ... Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. ... Darius Danesh (born August 19, 1980) in Scotland. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

It has a physical circulation of 8000 copies per issue and is read by some 20,000 people^{[citation needed]} in Edinburgh. A newspapers circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ...

History

The first Student of the 20th century (January 7, 1900).

Developing from Stevenson's original publication, Student quickly became a small weekly magazine, published by the Students' Representative Council. A typical, turn-of-the-century edition of Student would open with a short biography of a notable person and an editorial. The remaining content largely comprised notes from various societies, sports results, poetry and literary reviews, and profiles of newly-appointed lecturers. The magazine was supported by advertising, but cost two pence.^[1] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (503x786, 137 KB) Summary The Student (Edinburgh), January 9th 1900 (Vol XIV, number 11) Licensing This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (503x786, 137 KB) Summary The Student (Edinburgh), January 9th 1900 (Vol XIV, number 11) Licensing This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual... is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Above: A variety of coins considered to be lower-value, including an Irish 2p piece and many US pennies. ...

By the 1970s, Student had become a weekly newspaper, roughly Berliner in format. The running of the newspaper was by this stage in the control of the Student Publications Board, a body independent of the university. It was during the first half of the 1970s that Gordon Brown was a news editor. The type of content had shifted to reflect the times: a typical copy would contain pages on news, the environment, society, features, politics and entertainment. By this point, the price had risen to five pence.^[2] Newspapers with the Berliner format. ...

The 1990s saw the introduction of computers to the newspaper; the offices were also moved from the Student Publications Board offices at 1 Buccleuch Place to their present location in the Pleasance, anecdotally held to be space reclaimed after the closure of a monkey-testing lab. Initially, the newspaper was laid out on Apple Macintosh computers. During this period, Darius Danesh worked - briefly - at the paper, as a film and music critic. The Pleasance Courtyard during the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the location for one of the largest and most popular venue at the Edinburgh Fringe, hosting mainly comedy shows. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Darius Danesh (born August 19, 1980) in Scotland. ...

The paper, now a tabloid in format, won the Herald Student Media Award for best newspaper in 1998 and again in 2006, and the Guardian Student Media Awards for 'Best Newspaper on a Shoestring' in 2001. The paper was redesigned several times in the lead-up to the millennium, eventually switching to PCs for layout, and winning the Herald Award for its design in 2004. After failing to win the same award the following year, the paper was again radically redesigned in 2006. Charles Mackintoshs Glasgow Herald building, now The Lighthouse The Herald is a national broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland, with an audited circulation of 71,000, making it the best-selling national Scottish broadsheet newspaper. ... The Guardian Student Media Awards are an annual UK-wide student journalism competition run by The Guardian newspaper. ... A personal computer (PC) is a computer whose price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. ...

Controversy

Chris Brand

University lecturer Chris Brand, who had published controversial work into race and intelligence, and had castigated feminist promiscuity, single-parenting and paedohysteria, was asked to leave the university in 1997 for bringing it into "disrepute". Student had been instrumental in calling for his sacking after his book, The g Factor, was published. Finally, Brand was compensated for unfair dismissal; and Student published in 2003 a further example of his psychorealism, urging girls to 'keep their (pubic} hair on' so as to improve their romantic chances. ^[3] Christopher Richard Brand (born 1 June 1943) is a British author and psychology researcher who is famous for his controversial views on race and intelligence. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ...

Financial collapse

In early 2002, Student's continuous run came to an end when the newspaper faced "five-figure debts". The official explanation was that the post-September 11 climate had caused a downturn in advertising, something being widely claimed by other newspapers at the time.^[4]. The newspaper was relaunched at the start of the 2002-3 academic year as a bi-weekly publication and advertising sales, which had been traditionally managed internally, began to be handled by the advertising department of the Students' Association, a system which continues today. The paper recovered quickly, returning to weekly publication with a redesign soon after the start of the next academic year. A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

Anti-gaelic 'bigotry'

The newspaper caused some controversy in 2004 when a television listing, apparently mocking the gaelic language, was republished around the internet, primarily through an email forwarding campaign, and a largely inaccurate Indymedia article.^[5] A flurry of angry, concerned and threatening letters, largely condemning all who worked at the newspaper as English bigots, followed; that the listings in question were traditionally deliberately offensive was not taken into account, due to the out-of-context nature of the forwarded message. Goidelic is one of two major divisions of modern-day Celtic languages (the other being Brythonic). ... The Independent Media Center, also called Indymedia or the IMC, is a loose network of amateur or alternative media organizations and journalists who organize into decentralized collectives, normally around geographic locations. ... Racism is a belief or concept that inherent differences between people, in particular those upon which the concept of race is based, determine cultural or individual achievement, and may involve the idea that ones self-identified race or ethnic group or others race or ethnic group is superior. ...

In fact, the author of the listing was himself a gaelic speaker, and the staff at that time was disproportionately Scottish in comparison with the rest of the university. The president of the Students' Association and the rector of the university resolutely refused to become involved in the issue, citing Student's editorial independence; the issue eventually blew itself out.

'Page Three' feature

In early 2005, Student published an editorial discussing Page Three and nudity in the media, accompanied by two full-page, semi-naked glamour model photographs: one male, one female. The newspaper received a complaint from the university's Islamic Society (ISocEd) as a result. The local newspaper Edinburgh Evening News published a story regarding the feature, which was subsequently picked up by several national newspapers. The photograph of the female model - who was wearing underwear and a scarf covering her nipples - was reprinted alongside each of these articles. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Glamour photography is the photographing of a model (usually female), in a way that is intended to be erotic, yet not pornographic. ... The Edinburgh Evening News is a local newspaper based in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

The majority of the coverage was seen by many as wildly misleading; newspapers claimed "floods of complaints" ^[6] and that the female model was in hiding. Furthermore, although Catherine Harper of Scottish Women Against Pornography said that "[This] will lead students to only view women as a pair of breasts", little mention was made of the male model also published. However, The Sun defended the publication of a page similar to its own and even offered the model a place in its paper. Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Again, the Students' Association and university representatives declined to comment on the feature, and the story died out.

Pure Controversy

In November 2006 Student ran a series of front pages highlighting the Christian Union's Pure course which allegedly taught that homosexuality was a "curable condition." The main complaint of Student was that the course was being taught at the Chaplaincy Centre, which is a university building. This raised concerns in regards to the university's anti-discrimination policy. What followed, was a temporary ban of the Pure course and a subsequent threats of litigation. The story became a national press fiasco, though Student was the first to break the story.

Notable former editors and staff members

• Gordon Brown (Prime Minister)
• Robin Cook (former Foreign Secretary)
• David Steel (former leader, Liberal Party)
• James Kirkup (Political Editor, The Scotsman)
• Dan Milmo (Transport Correspondent, Guardian)
• Tom Kelly (senior reporter, Daily Mail)
• Graeme Virtue (Arts Editor, Sunday Herald)
• Oliver Wright (News Editor, The Times)
• Sam Lister (Deputy News Editor, The Times)
• Kathy Long (BBC Scotland)
• Tom Gordon (Scottish Political Reporter, Sunday Times)
• Caroline Gammell (Chief Reporter, Press Association)
• Gordon Darroch (The Herald)
• Russell Fallis (Press Association)
• Stephen Phelan (Staff Writer, Sunday Herald)

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Footnotes and references

See also

• List of newspapers in Scotland

List of newspapers in Scotland is a list of newspapers in Scotland. ...

External links

• Student Newspaper online