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B O U T T H E M I T R E
• About Our Newspaper • Staff: Names and Faces • History of the Mitre About Our Newspaper The Mitre is a monthly student newspaper at the University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world. Our aim is to publish a quality newspaper for the members and friends of the University of St Andrews, and furthermore that this publication be informed by traditional thought and loyalty to the Crown. The Mitre is published six times during the academic year; three editions in Martinmas term and three in Candlemas term. In addition to our monthly newspaper and along the same lines we publish an occasional journal called the Mitre Literary Review. Names and Faces A number of people combine their efforts to produce the Mitre. Here are a few of them.
St Andrews Student Newspapers and the Birth of the Mitre It is not widely known that St Andrews has a long and varied history of student newspapers. A number of publications have been produced and printed in the 'old gray town', among them the St. Leonard's Magazine of the 1860's, written entirely by Andrew Lang, and the St Andrews University Magazine of 1863, primarily a graduate students' publication. In 1962, a newspaper called Quorum was published, of which very little is known. Quorum became Aien that same year, which survived until 1984, when it was rechristened the St Andrews University Chronicle. Another newspaper, Aristeuein, (from the other half of the University's motto) was published from 1973 until 1985. The Chronicle continued as the University's broadsheet until 1997. That year, it was relaunched in a populist, tabloid format as the Saint which is still published today every fortnight. In 1889, College Echoes was first produced, and was the longest-running student newspaper at the University of St Andrews. Its annual "Town and Gown Number" produced for the Kate Kennedy Procession took up the name College Echoes when the newspaper foundered, and lives on today as the annual of the Kate Kennedy Club. In 2003 a small group of students, inspired by the previous example of College Echoes and disappointed with the frequent vulgarity and occasional anti-intellectualism of the tabloid Saint, came together to found the Mitre. The name was chosen to harken back to the medieval golden age of St Andrews, when the city was the metropolis of Scotland. During this time St Andrews was the cultural, ecclesiastical, and sometimes even political capital of the nation. A mitre is a type of hat reserved for the use of bishops and privileged abbots. The Archbishop of St Andrews, currently based in Edinburgh, wears a mitre as a symbol of his authority. On 26 March, 2003, the first Mitre was printed, selling at 20p for six barely interesting pages. However, it was a start. The next issue did not come until 16 May, but had increased to eight pages. It included many notable features, some of which continue today, including the Imperial and Colonial Report, the Prayer Requests, the Editorial and Opinion page, and the very first Parliament Hall column detailing news from the University of St Andrews Union Debating Society. (We should note the premier column pales in comparison to the detailed monthly analysis and recap of U.D.S. events currently produced in the Mitre by deputy editor Alexandra Jennings). From 1 October 2003, the Mitre has been a highly-sucessful monthly newspaper with reports, analysis, commentary, and events from the University of St Andrews, the region of Scotland, the nation of Great Britain, and the world in which we live. T H E M I T R E THE QUALITY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS |
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O N T E N T S Home About Archives Literary Review On the Mitre: "Its frenetic tone is amusing in a relentless, unpitying way that reminds me of 'Vile Bodies'." Fr.
John Emerson
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