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The Vilest Rag You Can Imagine: 100 Years of the Ubyssey

The Vilest Rag You Can Imagine: 100 Years of the Ubyssey


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In October 1918, a four-sheet newspaper appeared in the shacks that served as a campus for the fledgling University of British Columbia. It had an odd name with an odd spelling, a rhyming corruption of The Odyssey invoking the university's initials. For one hundred years, the Ubyssey newspaper has outraged, entertained and, on occasion, informed its readers. It has been called the greatest school of journalism in the land, producing poets, pundits, humorists, reporters, judges, financiers and even a prime minister. Over the years, readers have found much to admire in the paper's pages. In its early days, the Ubyssey argued for the hiring of a dean of women and crusaded against the brutality of fraternity hazing. During World War II, it defended the right of Canadian-born students of Japanese descent to continue their studies. While the commercial press timidly obeyed the censorship dictates of Ottawa during the October Crisis of 1970, the Ubyssey staff bravely risked arrest by publishing full accounts of events in Quebec. Author Tom Hawthorn was co-editor of the Ubyssey from 1979 to '80. His centennial retrospective of the people behind the newspaper includes the likes of Earle Birney, Pierre Berton, Lawrence Hill, George Bowering, Allan Fotheringham, Joe Schlesinger, Sarah Galashan, John Turner, Katherine Monk and many more. In signature Hawthorn style, The Vilest Rag You Can Imagine is fun, informative and cheeky.

About the Author :
Tom Hawthorn has written for The Globe and Mail for thirty-four years. He is also the author of Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians (Harbour Publishing, 2012) and more recently The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country(Douglas & McIntyre, 2017). He lives in Victoria, BC.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781550178586
  • Publisher: Harbour Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Harbour Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 155017858X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: 100 Years of the Ubyssey


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