The Indiana Renegade, 1955-1956
A Guide to the Collection at the Indiana University Archives
Finding aid prepared by Hannah Osborn
Summary Information
Repository
Indiana
University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives
Creator
The
Indiana
Renegade
TitleThe
Indiana
Renegade
, 1955-1956
Collection No.
C710
Extent
Three issues
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
This collection includes three issues of
the independently produced campus humor magazine, the
Indiana
Renegade,
all published during the 1955-1956 school year. An “unofficial”
publication, the
Renegade was the creation of a number
of students from Indiana University, most prominently IU senior Clint
Major.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.
Historical Note
“Clint Enterprises,” the fictitious company under which the
Indiana Renegade was published, comprised of a number of Indiana
University students headed by editor and publisher Clint Major, a senior during the
1955-1956 academic year when the
Renegade was in
production. Other students credited in the production included: Tom Barton, Rick
Beckrich, Joe Boden, Alex Bottos, Jr., John Bowden, M.L. Clinton, Bob Conklin, Art
Coyne, Pat Duncan. Solomon Edwards, Tom Hensley, Clif Ingram, Jay Joseph, Dyann
Kaye, Dan Krivoshia, Eugene Matovich, John Peterson, Kay Place, Dick Pramuk, Rex
Redifer, Al Rommel, Sam Schwartz, Tom Smart, Bart Thompson, Al Whittinghill, and
James Work, Jr..
The
Indiana Renegade was created with the intention of
becoming a more outrageous and bawdy counterpart to other on-campus humor magazines
such as the
Crimson Bull. Operating as an independent
publisher outside of university sanctions, the
Renegade
did not have a faculty advisor for the magazine, alternatively listing their advisor
as the fictitious "Bolivar Potwalloper" or as
"nobody." The
Renegade
was intended to be released semi-monthly during the 1955-1956 school year.
It was printed with full-color covers by Owen Litho Service in Spencer, Indiana.
Arrangement
The collection contains three issues of the
Indiana
Renegade
, organized chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of the only three issues of short-lived, student-run
publication from 1955 and 1956, The
Indiana Renegade.
Predominantly a humor magazine, the issues consist of a number of jokes, some benign
relating to subjects like the troubles of parking on campus, while others are much
more obscene. Written jokes and satire are presented next to cartoons and comics
drawn by members of the staff, most notably Clif Ingram, Eugene Matovich, Tom
Messelman, Al Whittinghill, Dick Pramuk, Rex Redifer, and an unknown cartoonist with
the signature of "Chi." Also included are
photographs of each issue’s "Renegade Queens" next
to a brief bio on each woman, as well as the publication’s staff posing for
satirical photographs. The
Renegade is similar in
flavor to other campus humor publications such as the
Parks
House Scribe
and the
Crimson Bull, however
it did not include the same kind of editorial content as these other publications.
Ads for a number of legitimate local business such as Nick’s English Hut and Import
Motors are listed next to businesses imagined by the
Renegade staff.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
Related Material
Related photographs may be available in the
Indiana University Archives
Photograph Collection
.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Accession: 2013/039
Usage Restrictions
Collection is in the public domain. For more information, please contact the
Indiana University Archives staff.
Preferred Citation
[Item], The Indiana Renegade, Collection C710, Indiana University Archives,
Bloomington.
Provenance
The
Indiana Renegade issues were withdrawn from the
Herman B Wells Library reference collection and transferred to the University
Archives in 2013.
Processing InformationProcessed by Hannah Osborn.
Completed in 2019
Container List
Series:
The
Indiana Renegade, 1955-1956
Box SC17
"First Issue,"
1955
"Second Issue,"
1955
"The Graduation
Issue,"
1956