The Daily Pennsylvanian
student newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. is the independent student media organization of the University of Pennsylvania. The DP, Inc. publishes a newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, the 34th Street Magazine, and the satirical publication Under the Button. It is published entirely by Penn undergraduates and is editorially and financially independent from the university.
History
The Daily Pennsylvanian was founded in 1885 as a successor to the University Magazine, a publication by the Philomathean Society. In 1894, the paper began publishing daily, and remained so until it paused publication in May 1943 due to World War II. It resumed publication in November 1945. In 1962, after a feud with the University of Pennsylvania Student Government Association over a critical editorial led to the Association withdrawing its recognition and subsidies for the paper, the DP became independent. That same year, the organization accepted its first woman staffer, Sharon Lee Ribner. The university's alternative women weekly, the Pennsylvanian News, ended publication in 1964.
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