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The Plague (magazine)
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The Plague is New York University
's campus comedy magazine. It was founded in 1978 by Howard Ostrowsky along with John Rawlins, Joe Pinto and Dan Fiorella (among others), and is currently published once per semester.
Like many college humor magazines
, The Plague often pokes fun at popular culture
as well as campus life and the idiosyncrasies of New York University. The magazine's office is located in the Kimmel Center where the student staff writes and lays out the magazine.
Material from recent issues has been highlighted in Page Six of the New York Post
.
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
's campus comedy magazine. It was founded in 1978 by Howard Ostrowsky along with John Rawlins, Joe Pinto and Dan Fiorella (among others), and is currently published once per semester.
Like many college humor magazines
College humor magazines
Many colleges and universities publish satirical journals conventionally referred to as "humor magazines." Among the most famous: the Harvard Lampoon, which gave rise to the National Lampoon in 1970, The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine , Princeton Tiger Magazine, the...
, The Plague often pokes fun at popular culture
Popular culture
Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...
as well as campus life and the idiosyncrasies of New York University. The magazine's office is located in the Kimmel Center where the student staff writes and lays out the magazine.
Material from recent issues has been highlighted in Page Six of the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
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External links
- The Plague Tumblr Website
- The Plague
- Lists by The Plague
- Short Film "Union Square News" from Spring 2009
- "Cocktails with Cretins: An Interview with the Editors of The Plague," Washington Square News, April 21, 1994.
- Sample Article: "Fear and Loathing in Las Quantas Physicas," The Plague, 1994.