The Brunswickan
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The Brunswickan is the official student newspaper at the University of New Brunswick located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
A founding member of the Canadian University Press, it remains one of the largest community newspapers in Atlantic Canada, and among the largest in Canada, well out-of-proportion to the size of its home campus.
The tagline for the paper, "Canada's Oldest Official Student Publication", combines two facts: the paper is official student publication of the students at the University of New Brunswick and the first issue of UNB's official student publication was published in 1867, prior to any other official student publication at a Canadian university.
Regional rival, The Dalhousie Gazette at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, claims the title of "oldest student newspaper in Canada." The Gazette has published consecutively since 1868, whereas there are significant gaps in the publishing history of The Brunswickan.
The paper currently runs in a broadsheet format.
Members of the paper are often referred to as "brunsies", a term of pride and affection for some.
Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.
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[edit] Criticism
The Brunswickan has been criticized for its decreasing quality over the past 3 years. Although many students do read the paper, some say they think the paper is of poor quality.
Headlines like "holy effin' poo, it's a book review" and "bed push, pusssssssssssssssssssshhhhhh the bed" were ran in the fall of 2006.
In the fall term of the 2006/07 academic year the paper ran numerous large advertisements for the paper itself as well as a half page ad looking for advertisements.
The Brunswickan has for a long time ran a segment called 'viewpoint' in which they ask ‘random’ students a question. It is presented in the paper with the question on top and the student's pictures and their answers to the question below their respective pictures. During the fall of 2006 the Brunswickan used members of their own editorial board in the viewpoint.
