Our coverage spans decades

Dear Readers,

Over the summer, we decided it was about time to finally clean up The Review’s office above Perkins Student Center.

After we threw away countless coffee cups from Dunkin’ Donuts (relics of all-nighters from months past) and cleaned up the cluttered desktops on all of our computers, we came across a true gem – a collection of laminated pages from archives spanning as far back as 1882.

Each page, yellowed by age, but preserved for decades chronicles The Review’s presence on campus throughout recent history.

In 1944, William Kirsch, a news editor, described how it was the first time The Review had gone to press in a year and a half, presumably because of the World War II. In 1968, reporters and photographers covered the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the subsequent civil unrest that followed in Wilmington.

In 1969, The Review announced Arva Jackson’s unprecedented nomination to the university’s Board of Trustees — the first black person to ever be nominated in university history. In 1985, The Review covered a student rally against apartheid, while university officials vetoed full divestment from companies with interests in South Africa.

We’re proud of the work past editors and reporters have done, and this year is no exception. We hope to continue covering national, local and university news as much as possible. To do so, we count on the support of you, members of the university and surrounding community, to read our issues and to let us know how we’re doing and what news you want to see in the paper.

Who knows, maybe fifty or sixty years from now future editors of The Review will stumble across laminated pages of this very issue.

Faithfully yours,
Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief
Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor