Varsity

Varsity is the older of Cambridge University's main student newspaper (The Cambridge Student being the other). Varsity is one of Britain's oldest student newspapers. Its first edition was published in 1931. However, the first few years saw Varsity get off to a shaky start. In 1932 controversy about some of the stories resulted in the editor being challenged to a duel, and the following year the paper went bankrupt with losses of £100. A variety of attempts to revive Varsity led to the paper resurfacing periodically over the following decade. However, it was not until 1947 that the paper was re-established permanently in its current form. In the mid-1970s, it merged with the radical campaigning student paper Stop Press. In 1955, a one-off Oxford edition of the paper was produced by the then editor Michael Winner. Since then the paper has concentrated on the Cambridge audience. Many of those who wrote for the paper during their student days have since gone on to achieve... full article at wikipedia