Independent Truth

An underground student newspaper, the Independent Truth began publication in 1923, publishing three issues, as a reaction to several administrative decisions, among them the declaration of star basketball player Dave Beane as ineligible just before the conference basketball tournament; the insistence of Dean Hoskins that the Mugwump be recalled and a poem about coeds withdrawn; and the return of copies of Robinson’s controversial Mind in the Making by Dean Thackston, without informing the professor who had planned its use in class. Each issue had a different editor, and virtually the entire senior class assisted in the operation of the newspaper, which was printed in Rockwood by an uncle of a class member.