The Beaver

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Type Weekly newspaper
Format Compact
Owner LSE Students' Union
Editor Sidhanth Kamath
Founded 1949
Political allegiance Centre Left
Price Free
Headquarters London School of Economics
Website: www.thebeaveronline.co.uk
The Beaver is also a character on the United States TV series Leave It to Beaver.
The Beaver (magazine) is also the official magazine of Canada’s National History Society.

The Beaver is the newspaper of the London School of Economics students' union.

Despite being published by the LSE Students' Union, The Beaver has a strong tradition of independence and hard nosed intelligent reporting. Around 4,000 copies are published and distributed free of charge every Tuesday during term time. The Beaver is governed by the collective, a body of around 150 students who have contributed three or more written pieces or photographs to the paper. The collective democratically elects all of the paper's editorial staff. The paper is one of the UK's most active student publications and counts itself among those at the forefront of student issues and campaigns. The paper is made up of news, comment & analysis, features, PartB, sports and other sections.


Contents

[edit] News

News typically consists of LSE, University of London and Higher Education stories and is frequently contacted by the national press. Recent examples have included the story of Erik Ringmar, a Senior Lecturer at the LSE, being threatened by the School [1]. This story was picked up by a number of national papers, including The Guardian [2].

[edit] Comment & Analysis

C&A publishes student opinion pieces discussing issues that are related to the general LSE student population, regardless whether they have wider social or political implications. Letters to the editor are also published, and the extensive range of articles and letters featured reflect the extensive readership within the LSE. From the average student to high level school officials, contributions to the C&A section have been wide-ranging and varied.

[edit] Features

Features deals with world politics, society, business, careers and law articles. It also conducts interviews with leading figures such as Sir Nicholas Stern[3].

[edit] PartB

Launched in 2005 PartB is The Beaver's arts and entertainment pull-out. It contains sections dedicated to Music, Film, Theatre, Literature, Visual Arts, Style, Travel and Food & Drinking as well as a Rant section. It also regularly features interviews with persons as diverse as Alan Bennett, Ashton Kutcher, Gerald Scarfe[4], Stewart Lee[5], Eugene Hütz[6] and Wolfmother[7]. Each section is edited by a Comptroller, who is appointed by PartB's elected editors.

In 2006 PartB was shortlisted for the Guardian Student Media Awards.

[edit] Former Editors

  • 2006/7 Kevin Perry and Daniel B Yates
  • 2005/6 Peter McLaughlin and Natalie Vassilouthis. Jamie Makan & Alex Teytelboum.

[edit] Sports

Mixture of match reports from LSE teams and comment on world sports. Has courted controversy in the past with its traditionally dismissive approach to the sporting efforts of rival universities. Highlight of the year was traditionally the last Sports section before Christmas, containing photos of the Athletic Union Barrel.

In 2000, The Beaver's James Mythen won Sports Writer of the Year at the Guardian Student Media Awards.

[edit] Former Sports Editors

  • 2006-2007 Laura Parfitt
  • 2006 Sancha Bainton
  • 2006 Sam Lehmann
  • 2004-2005 Jennie Bush
  • 2004-2005 Ed Calow
  • 2004-2005 Louise Hastie
  • 2004-2005 Paul McAleavey
  • 2002-2004 Gareth Carter
  • 2002-2004 Ellie Vyras
  • 2000-2001 Justin Jewell
  • 1999-2000 Jean-Baptiste Brom

[edit] History

Named after the School's mascot, which was apparently chosen “as representing an industrious animal with social habits”, The Beaver was first published in its recognised format on 5 May 1949. The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds archives of the paper dating back to this first issue, which was christened by George Bernard Shaw, one of the LSE's founding fathers. Since then it has gone through several makeovers, survived LSE's turbulent history and emerged to be one of the most respected and widely read student newspapers in the UK.

[edit] Notable Former Contributors

Ekow Eshun, the Artistic Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and a contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review edited both Features and Arts.

Justin Webb is a former editor and has been the BBC's chief Washington correspondent since 2001.

James Corbett, contributing editor of The Observer Sport Monthly and author of Everton: The School of Science and England Expects was political editor of the paper.

Simon Garfield, journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives", is a former Executive Editor.

Richard Bacon, a former Executive Editor, is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Norfolk South.

Former Executive Editor Tim Gopsill was a member of the collective of Leveller magazine, a political magazine which was involved in a well-recorded contempt of court case in 1979. He currently edits the magazine of the National Union of Journalists.

John Stathatos, a former Executive Editor, is a photographer, writer and art critic whose publications include The Book of Lost Cities and A Vindication of Tlon: Photography & the Fantastic.

[edit] Executive Editors

  • 2006-2007 Sidhanth Kamath
  • 2005-2006 Samuel Gad Jones
  • 2004-2005 Prashant Rao
  • 2003-2004 Mark Power
  • 2003 Ibrahim Rasheed
  • 2002 Charlie Jurd; Tom Whitaker; Catherine Baker; Iain Bundred
  • 2001 Chris Wills
  • 2000 Ian David Curry; Mukul Devichand
  • 1999 Daniel Lewis
  • 1998 Matt Brough
  • 1997 Craig Newsome
  • 1996 Nicola Hobday; Liz Chong
  • 1995 Rachel Cuthbert; Susha Lee-Shothaman
  • 1994 Ron Voce
  • 1993 Kevin Green
  • 1992 Neil Andrews
  • 1991 Simon William; Sarah Eglin; Madeline Gwyon
  • 1990 Edward Bannerman; Simon Williams
  • 1989 Thomas D.G. Parker; Christopher Flook
  • 1988 Mark Moscher; Stravros Makris; Benjamin Charles Gilbey
  • 1987 Alexander Crawford; Sivan Lewin
  • 1986 Nina Kaufman; Nick Holmes; Haider Ali; Paul Klebnikov
  • 1985 Giles Perritt; Gilli Weedon; Ed Richards
  • 1984 Iqbal Wahhab; Irene Nyborg-Anderson; Eleanor Edwards; Lucy Cohen
  • 1983 Richard Bacon; Jim McCallum
  • 1982 Chris Collet; Penny Marshall; Matthew Price
  • 1981 Colin Bates; Margaret Cameron-Waller
  • 1980 Simon Garfield; Keir Hopley
  • 1979 Ylva Jenkins
  • 1978 Martin & Carol Saunders
  • 1976 Anton Chapman
  • 1974 Peter Trimmins
  • 1973 Rosie Hurst; G. Foy
  • 1971 Elisabeth Faulkner; John Stathatos
  • 1970 Martha Greenyer
  • 1968 Alison Barlow; Lynn McCann
  • 1967 James Wickham; Nigel Bowen; Gus Ullsterin
  • 1966 David Baume; Alex Finer; Frank Mansfield; Jerry Pastor
  • 1965 Tim Gopsill; Rick Upson; Jon Smith
  • 1964 Stan Fischer; Brian Soddy
  • 1963 David Mills
  • 1962 Mike Cunningham; Mark Harris; Graham Murray
  • 1961 Richard Stevenson; Kishore Bhimani
  • 1960 Brian Levy; Don Esslemont
  • 1959 Nedis Demetrakos; Demetrios Demetrakos
  • 1958 Brian Steward; Paul Sithi-Amunai
  • 1957 David Watkins
  • 1956 John S. Sidle; Derek Shaw
  • 1955 Marguerite Watkins; Malcolm R. Ross
  • 1954 Roland Freeman; C. Ian Jackson
  • 1953 John M. Dunkley; Sander Rubin
  • 1950 Brian Morton-Smith
  • 1949 Charles R. Stuart

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Senior Lecturer threatened over comments - The Beaver's story hosted by Ringmar.net
  2. ^ Lecturer's blog sparks free speech row - Education Guardian
  3. ^ Nicholas Stern interview - The Beaver Online
  4. ^ Gerald Scarfe interview - The Beaver Online
  5. ^ Stewart Lee interview - The Beaver Online
  6. ^ Eugene Hütz interview - The Beaver Online
  7. ^ Wolfmother interview - The Beaver Online

[edit] External Links

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