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Student Publications Across the Years
Publications are integral to spreading news, information, opinions, and art among students. Consequently, student publications are critical to understanding campus climate and culture. The University Archives holds decades of published material featuring student work. Below are pictures and excerpts of student publishing groups, some of which have since been disbanded and others of which still exist.
![Palette Scrapings, Vol. II, June 1883, No. 4 pg 1. Image is a pencil sketch of a young boy in a hat and jacket with his hands in his pockets and something held between his body and right arm.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/palette1-350x496.jpg)
![Palette Scrapings, Vol I, Jan 1882, No. 1 pg 13. Page displays text with a sketching of a sketching on an easel showing flowers.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/palette4-350x468.jpg)
![Freelance Political Magazine 1963 cover depicts artwork of a knight with a lance on a horse. The art is comical.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freelance-1963-05-15-cover-350x488.jpg)
![Reflections 1952 cover with abstract artwork depicted.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Reflections-cover-1952-002-350x538.jpg)
![Reflections 1968 cover depicting stamp-work art of a tree branch and the moon.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Reflections-cover-1968-001-350x554.jpg)
![The Grouch 1964 cover with stylized font for article titles such as "BEAR'S DEN OPENED" and "'A Raisin in the Sun' to be Shown Next Week."](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/grouch-1964-11-09_p1-350x455.jpg)
![The Black Collegian 22 November 1968 cover showing line art of a Black man speaking.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/black-collegian_1968-11-22_p1-350x500.jpg)
![spires_Fall2001cover](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spires_Fall2001cover-350x213.jpg)
![Cover art for a 2012 issue of Political Review showing exit signs for a two-lane road. The lanes are designated with a blue donkey on the left with an exit sign above reading "A Nation" and a red elephant on the right with an exit sign above reading "Divided."](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WUPR17-1Final-fixed_Page_01-350x450.jpg)
![Cover art for a 2012 issue of Political Review showing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as Olympic track racers with Obama pulling ahead of Romney.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WUPR17-1Final-fixed_Page_32-350x450.jpg)
![Fall 2012 cover of Issues Magazine depicting spray paint artwork of numerous eyes in varying sizes.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ISSUES-Fall-2012-Online-Version-2_Page_01-350x453.jpg)
![Cover of the first issue of Eleven Magazine featuring a bust of Kevin Michael.](https://library.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Eleven-Magazine-Issue-1.1_Page_01_Page_01-350x453.jpg)
These publications and many others by Washington University students are available at Special Collections. See these inventories for more information.