[3] In 1939, The Index was selected for a second-class honor rating by the Associated Collegiate Press.

[4] Then, for the 1939 to 1940 academic year, The Index went through three editors, with freshman Don Wilson as the third taking over in January 1940.

[6] For the 1951 to 1952 school year, Bill Hilliard was the elected editor of the paper, which was still a weekly publication at that time.

[11] The student newspaper is published biweekly, though stories appear online more frequently.

[11][12] In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pacific Index temporarily stopped production of their print issues, and moved to an online only platform.