The University Division of Student Life will provide funding for a new student magazine, following its permanent suspension of Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice magazines on Monday.
Alex House, spokeswoman for the University, said staff hopes to work with students to ensure that the new magazine will feature a “variety of voices and perspectives.” The magazine would begin next academic year, leaving the spring 2026 semester with no student magazine. Staff members of both Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six are still receiving pay for the spring semester.
“The University remains committed to supporting every member of our community and advancing our goals to welcome, serve, and help all succeed. In doing so, we must also comply with our legal obligations. This requires us to ensure all members of our community feel welcome to participate in programs that receive University funding from the Office of Student Media,” House said in a statement Tuesday.
Student Life permanently suspended the magazines on Monday, citing a memo issued by the U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in July, which provided “non-binding suggestions” to help federal funds recipients comply with anti discrimination laws. However, the memo was not a law, rather guidance from the Department of Justice.
Neither Nineteen Fifty-Six nor Alice discriminated in the hiring process, and both regularly hired staff outside of their intended target audiences.
Nineteen Fifty-Six was created in 2020 in an effort to provide a space for Black students to feel heard and represented in the media.
In the original proposal for Alice created in September 2014, founding advisor Mark Mayfield wrote that the magazine would be a “digital magazine featuring edgy, urban, and clever content aimed at young women in their late teens and early-to-mid 20s.”
The proposal said it was targeted specifically towards young women, as they were more likely to read a magazine than a traditional print newspaper. The magazine launched its first edition in November 2015.
Mayfield said the two magazines were “incredibly diverse” and helped all students on campus feel represented in student media.
“You’re going to lose that to an extent,” Mayfield said. “It brought people together from all across campus.”
House said that the University reviews programming regularly as the “compliance landscape changes.”
“The University cannot continue providing public funds for printing and operational logistics for these magazines under the compliance landscape. The First Amendment rights of our students remain fully intact,” House said.
A petition, which calls the suspension a “direct attack on free speech on a college campus,” was created on Monday night to reinstate the two magazines. As of publication, it has almost 1,400 signatures.
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