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Article: The Daily Texan: The First 100 Years
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- Journalism History
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Journalism History Summer 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Copp, Tara and Robert L. Rogers. The Daily Texan: The First 100 Years. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1999. 147 pp. $29.95.
Students who serve on the staff of the student newspaper at the University of Texas have reason to be proud. The story of The Daily Texan is a remarkable one.
Throughout the twentieth century, the staffs of college newspapers all over the United States have had to deal with the paradox of operating within institutions of higher learning dedicated to teaching the ideals of a free society and dealing with a traditional classroom framework dependent on authoritarian values. During the 1900s, courses and whole departments and schools of journalism were established at ...