The Dodo (magazine)

The Dodo

Founded	1957
Country	United States
Language	English

The Dodo was a satirical, sometimes underground military humor magazine published by cadets at the United States Air Force Academy. It poked fun at Air Force and Academy policies and leadership, and was often very cynical in nature. The magazine's name is a play on the Academy's official mascot, the falcon.

Since its founding in 1957, The Dodo went through cycles of legitimacy. At times it has been sanctioned and censored ^[1] by Academy leadership. Other times, the attitude of the magazine has led to it being banned outright ^[2] —usually driving publication underground.

eDodo

In the mid-90s, censorship of The Dodo drove the development of an online version of the magazine called eDodo, run by graduates who were no longer subject to the military authority at the Academy. The eDodo bulletin boards were frequented by Academy graduates, cadets, and at least a handful of non-graduates, but Academy officials publicly distanced themselves from the eDodo. ^[3]

Access to eDodo was eventually blocked at the Academy by the 10th Communications Squadron.

External links

• The Dodo Lives, an electronic archive of the original Dodo

References

1. AFA unblocks Web site Access opened to controversial eDodo - The Gazette | Encyclopedia.com ^{[ dead link ]}
2. USAFA Today Archived December 24, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
3. Channel 11 News Story