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The Argo newspaper first hit stands on October 29, 1971. Although The Argo has been around since the University’s inception, it did not have a name when it was first released. In an effort to involve the community in the naming of the newspaper, The Argo staff held a contest featured in the first issue where potential name ideas could be submitted. The eventual winner, however, was not a student, but Professor Demetrios Constantelos. His prize? A lifetime subscription to the non-subscription student-run paper.

With social media dominating lives today, the digital age has had a severe impact on the motivation to read traditional, in-print journalism. However, ÒùÐÔÊÓƵ students have kept The Argo afloat with their unabashed passion for sharing news, events, and creative stories with their community. ÒùÐÔÊÓƵ ³¢¾±²ú°ù²¹°ù²â’s Special Collections has of The Argo to make information accessible to researchers and for the reading pleasure of the ÒùÐÔÊÓƵ community.

In addition to upcoming events and information pertaining to the University, The Argo also showcases significant events in national politics, allowing today’s students to see the ways that events like Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, the threat of nuclear war with Russia, and poverty rates under the Bush Administration, to give three examples, influenced the nation and ÒùÐÔÊÓƵ alike.

Thanks to The Argo, readers can experience these events for themselves as students and faculty once did and will continue to do. Learn more about The Argo in ÒùÐÔÊÓƵ Stories.

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