The Reflector Begins
By Oregon Forensics | October 15, 1891
Debaters also launched The Reflector (1891–1894), the university’s first student newspaper. Its pages carried spirited arguments and student perspectives. By the early 1900s, the same students helped create The Oregon Weekly, which would evolve into today’s Oregon Daily Emerald. Journalism at Oregon, like the library, began with debaters.
Citation: Morris (1920).
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