The California Review
| Format | Online |
|---|---|
| Editor | Isaiah Henderson |
| Editor-in-chief | Kenneth Schrupp |
| Managing editors | Aaron Genin |
| News editor | Nicholas Trimble |
| Opinion editor | Austin Katz |
| Founded | Jan. 7, 1982 |
| Political alignment | Center-Right |
| Language | English |
| Relaunched | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Diego, California |
| Website | https://calrev.org/?v=7516fd43adaa |
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The California Review, also known as the "CalRev", was a student-operated newspaper founded in 1982 at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). At its founding, the paper was seen as part of a wave of conservative student newspapers starting in the early 1980s, contrasting the "established liberal wisdom" of the 60s with "a contentious, no-holds-barred, freewheeling political conservatism."[1] The paper was controversial from the start for its content that was seen at the time as promoting racist, misogynist and anti-gay views, but the political conservative establishment welcomed the paper. The newspaper was shut down by the university in 1983, but after a lawsuit was allowed to begin publication again in 1985. The paper folded in 2010, when UCSD ceased funding for all student media.
An unrelated digital edition was launched in 2018 by the California Review Inc. from San Diego, California. Although not legally connected to the previous publication, the current California Review claims to continue the spirit of its predecessor through the slogan "Striking Back Since 1982" .[2]
Origins[edit]
Founding[edit]
The California Review, inspired by the Dartmouth Review, started as a student-run newspaper at UCSD . It was founded by Eric Clasen Young and Harry Crocker III on January 7, 1982; inspired by a semester Young spent at Dartmouth College.[3][4][5] In the spring of 1982, the staff registered the paper with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization headquartered in La Jolla, California. The first issue was released in May 1982 and featured an interview with Neil Reagan. It was one of the more highly-regarded conservative student publications that came out in the 1980s with seed money from the Institute for Educational Affairs,[6] being praised by Charlton Heston, George F. Will, and William F. Buckley, Jr., who called it "lively, literate, and fun to read."[7] Until the early 1990s it was known for its feature interviews with noted conservatives and libertarians such as Milton Friedman, Jack Kemp, and Robert Bork.
Controversy[edit]
The first edition of the paper stirred considerable controversy on campus due to its unabashed conservatism and because of an anti-gay slur in one of the pieces, which asserted that "men are men, women are women, and homosexuals are in a subphylum by themselves. Even if the surgeon general proclaims otherwise, we shall continue abiding by Nature's law."[8] The paper was immediately accused of being racist, sexist, homophobic, and fascist by some students, professors, and left-wing student organizations.
Subsequent issues tended to be less flamboyant, but controversy again arose from a short satirical news story aimed at criticizing the sexual liberation movement in the May 1983 edition which some on campus claimed was actually an endorsement of rape. The editors responded that such an interpretation was absurd and was merely a pretext by its political enemies to try to shut down the publication. Though the paper was not forced to shut down, its opponents did succeeded in getting the university to continue to deny monetary support and on-campus office space to California Review despite such support being given to three left-wing student publications that existed on campus at the time, including "papers for Hispanic, Jewish and black students and a homosexual organization."[9]
This situation eventually resulted in California Review filing suit against the Regents of the University of California in Federal Court. In 1985, the Court issued a preliminary injunction against the university and shortly thereafter the university provided some on-campus office space to the Review in the old Student Center where several other student organizations had offices.[10]
Over the years, the paper would continue to court controversy, such as in 2010 when a cartoon of a "Muslim underwear bomber" was published.[11]
The California Review also published substantive articles, such as when the October 2002 issue revealed that the Che Cafe was potentially in violation of federal law by hosting the websites of several "terror organizations" such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement on a school related server; it was already known that the Kurdistan Worker's Party was present on the site.[12]
Hiatus[edit]
In 2010, UCSD ceased providing funding for student media organizations, due to a controversy involving The Koala, an unrelated student publication.[13][14] Combined with the members graduating faster than they could recruit new writers, the paper went on hiatus in 2016.
Relaunch[edit]
In 2018 the paper relaunched under new leadership from UCSD students who contacted alumni of the university.[3] Under this new guidance, the paper became independent of UCSD and established a new website.[2][15] Despite several changes and a new direction, the paper remained headquartered within San Diego. Since the relaunch, the paper has covered not only state news but national and international stories, including the 2019 Ukrainian Elections, Belt and Road Initiative, and the Chinese social credit system.[16][17][18]
Editors-in-chief[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ Vallance, Karla (February 6, 1983). "Conservative papers emerge on college campuses". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 10 July 2020. (subscription required)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schrupp, Kenneth (2018-07-09). "[Editorial] Letter from the Editor". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Review, The California (2018-08-07). "Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Schrupp Interviewed by the UCSD Guardian". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ↑ "California Review Alumni". www.alumni.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-26. (UCSD account required)
- ↑ Butterfield, Fox (October 24, 1990). "The Right Breeds a College Press Network". The New York Times. (subscription required)
- ↑ Spivak, Sharon (June 16, 1983) "Freedom of Press Issue Raised at UCSD", La Jolla Light
- ↑ Jones, Lanie (June 10, 1983). "Funding for UCSD Review Stirs Debate". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 July 2020. (subscription required)
- ↑ "Campus right irks lefties". Copley News Service. August 8, 1982. Retrieved 10 July 2020. (subscription required)
- ↑ Brock, Roy (June 16, 1983). "Free speech is freer for some than others". The Selma Enterprise. p. 6. Retrieved 10 July 2020. (subscription required)
- ↑ Crocker, Brandon (June 1985) "Three Years at the Review" The California Review
- ↑ Staff (February 20, 2010). "New UCSD racial incident sparks rage, confrontation". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved March 1, 2019. (subscription required)
- ↑ McCullagh, Declan. "University bans controversial links". CNET. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ↑ Kissel, Adam (2010-02-23). "UC San Diego Freezes Funds to 33 Media Groups, Dissolves Student TV, Threatens to Punish Students for Protected Speech". FIRE. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Race Relations On San Diego Campus Still In Turmoil". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ↑ "The California Review - Striking Back Since 1982!". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
- ↑ Genin, Aaron (March 28, 2019). "Upcoming Elections and Ukrainian 'Ultra-Nationalism'". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- ↑ Henderson, Isaiah M. (2019-02-04). "The Chinese Empire Rises: BRI Emerges as Tool of Conquest and Challenge to the U.S. Order". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ↑ Trimble, Nicholas (2019-01-20). "CHINA'S SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM: THE DANGERS OF BIG DATA". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
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