03/01/2016
Six years ago today, Grand Valley State University woke up to the groundbreaking satire zine called “The Longhorn”. Rumor has it, three writers and one graphic designer (who were ahead of their time and are now probably off changing the world in their own unique way) printed off a thousand copies and inserted them into the school newspaper (the Lanthorn), in faculty mailboxes, classrooms, bathrooms, buses, statues, dorms, hallways, and dangled them from ceiling tiles. The zine shook up the conservative white anglo-saxon protestant campus (and the Lanthorn). That night, there was a call out on the school TV news and in the Lanthorn’s next issue for information leading to the identity of the people who wrote and distributed the zine.
The writers and artist were never turned in or their identities discovered.
Those writers influenced me to create GVSU’s first alternative zine called Cohesion, which was one of my happiest experiences at GV. I learned about project management, writing/editing, advertising, and working with student organizations at a university.
God bless those Longhorn writers...whoever and wherever they may now be… ;-)
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