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- | ====== About the Stanford Chaparral ====== | ||
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- | The Stanford Chaparral has been continuously published since 1899, and since 1906 by the Hammer and Coffin Society. | ||
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- | There have been at least five threatened suspensions or expulsions in the the history of the Chappie. None of them were carried out, however. There were two for editorial criticisms of the university in 1901 and 1906, two for allegedly obscene issues (Purple Ape in 1951 and Layboy in 1961), and the infamous Dead Bowlers prank in 1980. | ||
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- | ====The first issue==== | ||
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- | The Stanford Chaparral was founded in 1899 by Encina roommates Bristow Adams and Everet Smith. They proposed a humor magazine as “an irresponsible youngster, to be known as the Eucalyptus, following the prevailing style of tree nomenclature — the style that gives us the Palo Alto, Sequoia and Live Oak for publications, | ||
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- | Eventually, the magazine came to be called The Stanford Chaparral. The founders declared the Eucalyptus, “medicinal and hard to take". The name Poison Oak was discarded for similar reasons. The chaparral was a hardy scrub with a talent for survival. | ||
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- | Smith graduated in June, but contributed ad sales and writing for the new magazine. Larrey Bowman conceived the personified “Chappie” in a rough sketch from which Adams made the drawing which adorned the cover of the first volume. The first student subscriber was Carl Hayden, the future Arizona senator. | ||
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- | The first cover featured the jester and a cartoon of a hapless bather and the caption “There was a roomer afloat in Encina last night.” The jester came to be known at The Old Boy, as would future editors of the magazine. It also began the Chappie tradition of beginning every editorial with the words "Now That", probably to enable the reuse of that illustrated and engraved introductory phrase. | ||
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- | After the first year, the magazine was insolvent, with a debt to its printers "well into three figures" | ||
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- | ====The Golden Age of College Humor: 1900s to 1950s==== | ||
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- | The first half of the Twentieth Century would turn out to be a golden age for [[https:// | ||
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- | In 1906, Chappie editor Morrie Oppenheim and Daily Palo Alto editor Ben S. Allen were threatened with dismissal for criticizing " | ||
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- | During the Great War, the April 1918 issue of the Chaparral was edited from the Western Front. | ||
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- | In 1923, editor Northcutt Ely established the Chaparral' | ||
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- | In 1945, an issue of the Chaparral was edited from the Western Front of the Second World War. | ||
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- | In 1951, Chaparral was suspended for the Purple Ape issue of Crash Comics, edited by Stan Norton. While it was announced that "There will be no June issue", | ||
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- | ====The Radical Years: The 60s to the mid-70s. ==== | ||
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- | The 1960s would be the undoing of college humor magazines nationwide. The Chaparral survived the era, with a bit of luck, a new office on campus, a new orientation, | ||
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- | The decade started off with another suspension. The Chaparral was suspended in 1961 for a parody of Playboy magazine, edited by future Stanford statistics professor [[https:// | ||
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- | The Storke Student Publications building was dedicated in 1964. In exchange for its space in the building, the Chaparral contributed $50,000 to its construction, | ||
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- | In the spring of 1974, Chappie published a parody of the staid Campus Report in the spring of 1974. That issue left the magazine with an unpaid printing bill, which bankrupted the magazine for the second time in its history. | ||
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- | ====The Restoration and the Modern Era: mid-70s to Today==== | ||
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- | The following fall, the Chappie was revived by Field Marshall Mike Dornheim, appointed editor by the previous team, with the hastily assembled and cheaply produced " | ||
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- | The modern Chaparral would prove to the be a thorn in the side of the stuffed shirts in the university and the student body alike. | ||
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- | The Hammer & Coffin Society ran satirical slates for the ASSU Senate and Council of Presidents, and placed it's members on both bodies in 1970s and 80s. | ||
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- | In 1980, Hammer & Coffin Society initiates perpetrated one of the great college pranks of all time. They were able to get a picture of themselves, dressed in Chaparral bowling shirts, inserted into the next day's issue of the Stanford Daily. This was accompanied by a story saying that the Stanford bowling team had died in a plane crash. | ||
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