Campus Alternative Journalism Project
Alternative Papers List
Guides for
Alternative Newspapers:
Antioch Record editor’s manual: http://www.antioch-college.edu/community/record/_Manual/manual.html
CAJP guide to alternative journalism: Afflict
the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted
Progressive Campus Newspapers: (with date of latest online edition)
(* asterisk denotes a winner in the 2002 or 2003 Campus Alternative Journalism Awards)
Regularly Updated Websites
* Indy (Illinois State): http://indy.pabn.org (April 2003)
* Student Underground (Boston Univ.): www.thestudentunderground.org (Spring 2003). Special report on Pres. John Silber: http://www.thestudentunderground.org/factbook.php
*Dartmouth Free Press: http://dfp.dartmouth.edu (Spring 2003)
The Declaration (University of Virginia): http://www.the-declaration.com/ (April 2003)
Hardboiled (UC Berkeley): www.hardboiled.org (May 2003): the asian pacific american issues newsmagazine at uc berkeley
Common Sense (Notre Dame): http://www.nd.edu/~com_sens/ (May 2003)
Vanderbilt Orbis: http://www.vanderbiltorbis.com/ (May 2003)
College Hill Independent (Brown): www.theindy.net (April 2003)
Nightcap (UC San Diego): www.nightcap.org (Spring 2003)
Wise Monkey News (Portland State): http://www.wisemonkeynews.com/ (September 2002)
Libertas (Davidson College): http://www.davidson.edu/student/organizations/libertas/libertas.html (October 2002)
Drummer (Iowa State): http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/drummer/ (Summer 2002)
* Gainesville Iguana: www.afn.org/~iguana (February 2003)
Thistle (MIT): http://web.mit.edu/thistle/www (December 2002)
Additional Newspaper Websites (not updated recently)
Antioch Record: http://www.antioch-college.edu/community/record/Home_Page/Home.html (March 2002)
Boiling Point (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/boiling/ (March 2002)
Undercurrent (University of Oklahoma): http://www.ou.edu/student/ucurrent/ (March 2002)
Fem (UCLA): http://www.femmagazine.com/ (2002)
City on a Hill Press (UC Santa Cruz): www.slugwire.org (Nov 2001)
Diversity and Distinction (Harvard): http://hcs.harvard.edu/~dnd/ (Winter 2000)
Hermes (Wesleyan Univ.): www.wesleyan.edu/hermes (May 2000, designing new site)
Fish Rap (UC Santa Cruz): http://fishrap.ucsc.edu/ (May 2001)
Harvard Perspective, http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/ (Dec. 2001)
Indicator (Amherst): http://www.amherst.edu/~indicate/ (Oct. 2000)
* Insurgent (Oregon): http://insurgent.fruitiondesign.com/ (Dec 2001)
* Messenger (CCNY): http://www.geocities.com/ccnymess/ (Dec 2000)
Naked Singularity (Boston College): http://infoeagle.bc.edu/bc_org/svp/st_org/nsing/default2.html (1997)
Onyx Informer (Northeastern University): http://www.dac.neu.edu/onyx/about.htm (March 2000)
Princeton Progressive Review: http://www.princeton.edu/~progrev/ (May 2000)
* Protest (Northwestern): http://studorg.northwestern.edu/protest/ (June 2002)
Touchstone (Texas A&M): http://www.rtis.com/touchstone/ (October 2002)
Sites Not Updated:
* Rearguard (Portland State): http://www.therearguard.org/ (no articles)
TWANAS (Third World and Native American Student Press, UC Santa Cruz): http://soar.ucsc.edu/twanas (no articles)
University of Chicago Free Press: http://free-press.uchicago.edu/ (no articles)
Satellite (UC-Berkeley): www.readsatellite.com (September 2002)
Independent papers with websites requiring free registration to read articles:
Heights (Boston College) Ind. Weekly, http://www.bcheights.com/ 4/30/02
Georgetown Voice (ind. weekly) www.georgetownvoice.com 4/25/02
Michigan Independent (U Michigan): http://www.umich.edu/~michind (Nov 2000)
UWM Post (U Wisconsin Milwaukee): www.uwmpost.com
“Historic” Newspapers (no longer updating websites):
Chicago Ink (University of Chicago) http://ink.uchicago.edu/ (1996-98)
Prism (North Carolina): http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/ (1990-2000)
Eyes on CUNY: http://pw1.netcom.com/~cuny/main.html (not updated since 1998)
Hunter Envoy: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3943/ (1997)
Last Indicator (UC San Diego) http://burn.ucsd.edu/~newindi/ (1996)
Green Times (University of Pennsylvania): http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pennenv/greentimes/index.html (1997)
Utne magazine 2002 Independent Press Awards nominees for Student/Youth Coverage:
The Activist
$10 for 4 issues, includes a free subscription for a friend
180 Varick Street, 12th Floor
New York NY 10014
212.560.7327
www.theactivist.org
DeBug
48 S 7th St, Room 101
San Jose CA 95112
408.295.4424
www.siliconvalleydebug.com
The Envoy (Hunter College)
695 Park Ave Rm 211 TH
New York NY 10021
212.772.4251
www.hunterenvoy.com
Gumshoe Monkey
One issues in exchange for "a buck or a zine trade or a nice long
letter from you or stamps or whatever else you've got"
Ellen Adams
5025 Thacher Rd
Ojai CA 93023
save_ronie@yahoo.com
Harlem Overheard
Quarterly - free - just call, email, or send a letter and they'll send
it to you
147 St Nicholas Ave
New York NY 10026
212.663.0555
tharford@hcz.org
The Indy (Illinois State University)
No subscriptions, but all issues are posted on the Web site
ISU Campus Box 2700
Normal IL 61790-2700
indy.pabn.org
Leviathan (UC Santa Cruz)
UCSC Student Press Center
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz CA 95064
leviathan.ucsc.edu
The Messenger (City College of New York)
New Moon
$29 for 6 issues
34 E Superior St #200
Duluth MN 55802
800.381.4743
www.newmoon.org
New Youth Connections
$18 for 7 issues
Youth Communication/NY Center, Inc
224 W 29th St
New York NY 10001
212.279.0708
www.youthcomm.org/Publications/NYC.htm
Off! (SUNY Binghampton)
Free, just ask for one
OFF! Editor/OCC/SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902
607.777.2050
offeditor@hotmail.com
RedEye Magazine
$14 for 4 issues
116 Garfield Place, 4th floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
917.288.7362
www.angelfire.com/hiphop/redeyemagazine/about.htm
Street Forum (Stanford University)
No subscriptions - it's free - but they do have a mailing list -
contact them to be added
c/o The Haas Center for Public Service
562 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford CA 94305
editor Kate Hogan at
salvadorgirl@yahoo.com
http://www.stanford.edu/group/nightoutreach/streetforum/missionStatement.html
The Student Underground (BU)
$30 for one year
60 The Fenway, Apt #34
Boston MA 02115
gounderground@hotmail.com
Word Dance
$18 for 4 issues
PO Box 10804
Wilmington, Delaware 19850-0804
800.378.8815
www.worddance.com
X (UC Berkeley)
YO!
$25 for 12 issues
275 9th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
415.503.4170
www.youthoutlook.org