Courtesy of Drew Magazine. Article originally appeared in the Summer 1996 edition, by Jessica Papin C'95
Since 1928, The Acorn, the self-styled "independent newspaper of the College of Liberal Arts" has chronicled the growth and growing pains of Drew University.Captured in the yellowing pages of fading newsprint is a unique record of social history, recorded in medias res, unedited by hindsight. In the 68years since its inception as a two sided newsletter, The Acorn has moved through numerous incarnations. Tricked out in the bold headlines of splashy tabloid, demurely attired in the guise of a modest broadsheet, hip and insouciant as an alternative magazine, it marches through the decades- the college's continuing experiment in journalism and sleep deprivation. Whether as campus bulletin board, scandal sheet, public forum, propagandist rag, eagle-eyed sentinel of the Fourth Estate (or perhaps all of the above) more than 50 years of editors agree, The Acorn has always belonged to the students.
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