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or for the very beginning

go to the Rabbit Hole

A decade before the satirical The Onion magazine came forth,
a small bible college in the Northeast Georgia Mountains didn't have any purveyor of truth...
or at least sarcasm against things silly.

Sophomore Randy Cross, living in the newly built C-wing of the boys dorm, wasn't yet tired of hearing his roomate,
Sophomore Neill Calabro, mock everything wrong within the compound of 400+ students,
but he did have a suggestion; write it down.

So, second semester of school year 1978-79, room 25, and with the age of the printing press not yet invented, Neill used a form of penmanship known as Print.

And with all the news that's print to fit, The C-25 Gazette is born.
The Gazette is taped to their closet, and people slowly hear of it and come in to read,
and eventually a comment option brings praise and malaise.

The 5 surviving issues come from school year 1979-80, but the previous school year, 2nd semester, 1978-79, the yearbook somehow got ahold of a few of the early stories and printed them (scroll to the very bottom of the viewable 5 issues).

Anyway...

By 1980, Neill's ego tried to sell an issue during student lunch.
It probably went down better than SAGA, but it was probably the death knell for neill;
especially when he and Randy moved back to B-wing and the BC-25 Gazette just didn't survive in an AD age.