The Praetorian is a free, privately and independently funded quarterly published newspaper

Newspaper

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 in Riverside, California

Riverside, California

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 founded at the University of California, Riverside in 2007. Its first issue was on February 6, 2007, Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 president

President

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 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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's birthday

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. The paper includes conservative articles that relate current affairs and politics to life at the University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside

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Funding

The paper received its start-up capital

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 and is funded for the most part by the Collegiate Network

Collegiate Network

The Collegiate Network is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501 organization that provides financial and technical assistance to student editors and writers of almost 100 independent, conservative and libertarian publications at leading colleges and universities around the country. The project...

, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

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 located in Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware

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. The paper also operates off funds from various private donors.

Editors-in-Chief

Name	Year
Crystal Kang	2008-09
Samantha Stewart	2007-08

Staff

The Praetorian has a staff of ten to fifteen conservative republican and libertarian writers and editors.