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October 1910 - A.E. Ottewell is appointed as The Gateway's first Editor-in-Chief.
November 21, 1910 The Gateway prints its first issue, and published this poem on the front page:
Out upon the grass The Freshmen in the lock-step pass, Through the flour-sacks see them smile, They’ll be subdued for quite a while. And now that they’re all tied, We’ll take them for a street car ride, And we’ll stay by the Freshies till they die Or get to Edmonton .
Has anybody here seen Kenny, K e double n y, Has anybody here seen Kenny, Or seen him wave his hand ; His hair is smooth and his eyes are blue, And he’s a Freshman through and through, Has anybody here seen Kenny, Kenny whom we nearly canned? Floydie, oh Floydie, our FreshieSophso fair, We know you are sweet on the girl with the golden hair, Oh maybe she loves you, and maybe others too, And if she does, Floydie, oh will you be true?
Late 1930s
1972 - The U of A Students’
Union overrules The Gateway’s election of a new Editor-in-Chief. As a result, Gateway staff go on strike and create a new publication called Poundmaker. Poundmaker was published for two years until it fell into bankruptcy over a lawsuit surrounding a joke ad. The Gateway resumed publishing soon after.
The newspaper begins publishing twice a week.
quippy, opinionated piece that quickly became one of the most popular parts of the paper. It appeared in almost every issue for the next 20 years, until the Students’ Union banned it in 1943 because of its controversial nature. The column was brought back in 1989with a new name: “Three Lines Free.”
March 1, 1928 - The inaugural edition of The Getaway, a joke issue that spoofs campus news and has since become an annual tradition, is published with the headline, “The Getaway: Perversity of Albertina, Woozyday, Febrewery 11.”
MEDLEY When the autumn breezes blow, Up to Varsity they go ; Coming up to higher things, Far from mother’s apron strings . At the first they’re rather shy , But it wears off bye and bye, Till in a week they think they know All the things the seniors do .
1923 - The Gateway debuts their “Casserole” column, a
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1938 - The Gateway becomes a founding member of the Canadian University Press, which is the “oldest student news service in the world, and North America’s only student press co-operative.” The non-profit service is owned by more than 50 student newspapers in colleges and universities across Canada today.
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October 19, 1981 - An edition of The Gateway is confiscated by the police after they reported on an incident of arson that occurred in SUB. Officials feared that the paper’s coverage of the event would inspire copycats. The seizure of the newspapers was met with outrage by several major media outlets, and The Gateway sued and won $3,000 in settlement. The papers were redistributed on campus four days after being taken. March 2002 - The Gateway runs a referendum campaign in order to gain autonomy from the Students’ Union, and wins by a margin of 71.4 per cent. The Gateway Student Journalism Society was subsequently established to run the newspaper.
1910: 1930: 1950: 1970: 1990: 2010:
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November 21, 2010 - The Gateway
turns 100 years old, and celebrates this milestone with a centennial celebration that saw hundreds of Gateway alumni in attendance.
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February 17, 2011
The GSJS Board of Governors decide to switch the paper from twice-weekly publishing to weekly publishing for the 2011–12 publication year. This is the first time the paper was published once a week since the 1930s.
November 21, 2013
The Gateway turns 103 years old.