On Telling UA’s Undertold Stories
by Ashleigh Bonina and Kaylie Yaceczko Coming into Humans of UA as a course, we didn’t know quite what to expect. We knew we’d be researching in the archives, looking
It’s Lit(erary) – Literary Magazines at UA
by Kaylie Yaceczko While UA’s inaugural publication the Acheronic was only published from 1924 to 1927, literary magazines on campus did not end there. One literary magazine, Scope, began in
Leaping off the Page: Women and UA Publications
by Ashleigh Bonina and Kaylie Yaceczko In 1932 Caroline Pardee was the editor of an unusual edition of The Buchtelite. It seems as though the main difference from the other
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It’s All There in Black and White: Beginning Student Publications at UA
by Kaylie Yaceczko For nearly two full decades, the literary societies were the epitome of social life at The University of Akron; however, as fraternities and sororities came into the
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A Sisterhood of Akron Poets
by Kaylie Yaceczko On an average Saturday morning in 1872, the men of The University of Akron’s Greely literary society—named after Horace Greely, the founder and editor of the New-York
A War of Writers at UA
By Kaylie Yaceczko During the two decades of the University, the literary societies were the height of campus life, and some societies would have up to one total hundred members