Quinnipiac Barnacle

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Quinnipiac Barnacle
Quinnipiac Barnacle Logo.jpg
Type Satirical news organization
Format Tabloid and Website
Founder(s)Shane Collins and William Vessio
Editor-in-chiefAdam Silver
FoundedNovember 5, 2012;12 years ago (2012-11-05)
Website quinnipiacbarnacle.wixsite.com/qubarnacle

The Quinnipiac Barnacle is a university club and parody newspaper at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. [1] The Barnacle publishes satire Quinnipiac, political, and pop culture related articles [2] both digitally and in print editions each school semester. [3]

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History

While the official website of The Quinnipiac Barnacle states humorously that it was started in 1964 by former Quinnipiac University President John Lahey, [4] it was actually started on November 5, 2012, by juniors Shane Collins and William Vessio as a parody news website. [5] The website received popularity and press on-campus, as well as strong negative feedback. In Fall 2013, The Barnacle became an officially recognized organization on the Quinnipiac campus [6] and came out with its first print edition on September 4, 2013.

The Barnacle used to have a web video series called BarnacleTV, and occasionally runs a news program called The Barncast [7] that airs during the school year.

Controversy

An unofficial newspaper on the Quinnipiac campus, The Quad News, published a negative article about The Barnacle on November 11, 2012. [8] Shortly after, The Barnacle published a satirical response to the article titled "Quad News Staff Tries to Draw a Line." [9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Barnacle- Do You QU". qu.campuslabs.com. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  2. ↑ "Submissions". Quinnipiac Barnacle. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  3. ↑ "Print Edition". Quinnipiac Barnacle. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  4. ↑ "About Us (The Quinnipiac Barnacle)".
  5. ↑ "Parody news source, The QU Barnacle, takes campus by storm (The QU Chronicle)". The Quinnipiac Chronicle.
  6. ↑ "University Recognition Letter" (PDF).[ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "The Barncast". Quinnipiac Barnacle. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  8. ↑ "Satirical Newspapers May Be Crossing a Line (The Quad News)". Archived from the original on 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  9. ↑ "Quad News Staff Tries to Draw a Line (The Quinnipiac Barnacle)". Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
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