Their Founders at UNC
1966
The Worthless Gazette
A typewritten, mimeographed publication that
despite its title sold for
five cents, the Gazette
set out, its editors said,
“to do battle with: grits,
politicians, klansmen,
presumptuous weenies
— in short, EVERYBODY.”
1969
Betelgeuse
Its one issue features a
Jeff MacNelly tour de
force comic spread that
sends Coach Smite and
the League of Super
Dribblers to outer
space, a “Glibb’s Notes”
analysis of the Dick and
Jane readers (“serialized
one word at a time in
Look, Look, Look
magazine”) and a letter
to rushees from a fra-
ternity called Droppa
Kappa Acid.
1985
The Illuminati
Another publication to
last just one issue, the
Illuminati was created in
a dorm room by a
group of Morehead
Scholars as a “
left-wing/humor newspaper
intended both to entertain and enlighten our
readers.” It lampoons
Ronald Reagan, Jesse
Helms and local and
campus figures.
1992-93
Sliced Bread
A tabloid newspaper
that came out twice,
Sliced Bread targets cam-
pus life, world events,
political correctness,
race, religion and much
else. A cartoon depicts
“Some Less Lovable
Beauty and the Beast
Characters” such as
Jimmy Crackpipe, while
an article outlines how
“all those bleached
blonde Sorority Sues
out there” can tell if
their boyfriends are gay.
2001-present
BoUNCe
Created by contributors
from across the campus
community, BoUNCe
magazine exists in both
print and online form
( www.unc.edu/bounce).
Strongly influenced
by the online satirical
publication The Onion,
the magazine specializes
in mocking events
and personalities at
Carolina and beyond.
This list was compiled
in part from the
North Carolina
Collection’s online
exhibit about campus
humor magazines:
www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/
ref/stu/ humor.html.
1970-74
The Bi-Weekly ’Pede
Apparently created
single-handedly by Nyle
Frank ’ 69 (MA), this
series of occasional
one-sheet papers
dedicated its first issues
to the coronation
of King Nyle I of the
Invisible University
of North Carolina. The
paper went by many
titles, including The
Bi-Weekly Centipede,
The Bi-Lunatorial
Centipede and The
Fortnightly ’Pede.
ONLINE
You can see some pages
from several issues of
the Carolina Buccaneer
at alumni.unc.edu/
buccaneer.
1971
The Daily Far Afield
One of several publications to mock The Daily Tar
Heel, the magazine claimed “ 79 years of Editorial
B.S.” It gave its “dedicated, hard-working, nice-person
award of the entire bi-lune” to Nyle Frank, “who has
probably done as much as anyone in the world to
combat student apathy about events on campus.”
2000
UNCommitted
An undated, photo-
copied political satire
magazine that may
only have been pub-
lished once, UNCom-
mitted takes on topics
such as Abu Ghraib,
gay marriage and bas-
ketball mania. One
headline proclaims,
“Anti-Christ Works at
Law School. No One
is Surprised.”
