It is published monthly during term time and its editor, the newspaper's only paid position, is elected annually by Leeds University Union members.

A Leeds student publication titled The Gryphon was originally established in 1897 as "The Journal of the Yorkshire College".

[9] In December 2005, Leeds Metropolitan University Students Union (LMUSU) members chose via ballot to dissociate from the paper.

Members voted to dissolve the link, and henceforth the paper is a solely Leeds University Union maintained enterprise.

These range from a full-page interview with BNP leader Nick Griffin, in which a remark that homosexuals should be kept in the closet and the door behind them "kept firmly shut" (as well as other, race-based comments) caused great offence.

The issue in question featured a comment by Palestinian journalist Sameh Habeeb regarding beliefs in a pro-Israeli bias in the media.

[citation needed] In February/March 2006, the paper published an interview by Matt Kennard, a Leeds Student journalist, with Dr Frank Ellis, a controversial professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies who has expressed his support for racial differences in average intelligence.

[13][14] A campaign was launched by Hanif Leylabi, President of the LUU branch of Unite Against Fascism, which called upon the university to sack Ellis.