The daughter of an alum recently dropped off old editions of the Daily Tar Heel to our newsroom. We had fun looking through the old issues to see what we used to look like.
Old issues of the Daily Tar Heel are available for perusal in the Park Library on campus, and UNC Libraries has an online headline search on their website.
We have the full issues here in the newsroom, but took some shots of our favorite details. Most of the papers are from the fall of 1959, when campus was still mostly white and mostly male. Makes us pretty glad to attend UNC in 2011…
A columnist debates the merits of television as an educational resource.
Someone suggests that maybe smoking causes cancer…
The DTH reports on a mock trial event, in which the Editor-in-Chief was stage-murdered.
Anyone think we should bring back photo galleries of feet?
The synchronized swim team presents “Splash on Broadway.”
The crossword puzzle, presented by Kool cigarettes, which were introduced in 1933 for the “sophisticated man,” and manufactured by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which was based in Winston-Salem.
If only the basketball players still posed for portraits like these…
Wonder how many years the University Student Wives club existed?
While it might be handy to know which of your friends were suffering from illness, seems like a bit of a privacy issue to do so…
Even in 1959, people complained when the games were missing.
The installation of snack machines was big news.
Our JV football team used to be called the “Tar Babies.” And lost to Duke.
UNC used to host a study abroad program in Hawaii, that looked suspiciously like the set of South Pacific.
Female graduate students receiving posts (and their glamorous pictures) were also news.
An advertisement shows where the “thinking American” should purchase his clothes. If only UNC men still dressed like this…
Back in the day, DTH employed such esteemed columnists as Jonathan Yardley, who went on to work for the Washington Post and win a Pulitzer.
The Cary Grant classic, North by Northwest, played recently at the Varsity Theater on Franklin Street, but it seems it also made its original debut here in 1959.
For an April Fools issue, the editors devised the most scandalous headline they could think of…
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