The Paper was a weekly underground newspaper published in East Lansing, Michigan, beginning in December 1965.

[1] Started by Michigan State University student Michael Kindman as a radical, counterculture alternative to the official MSU campus newspaper, The Paper was sympathetic to the politics of SDS.

[2] Initially tolerated by the Michigan State University school administration, The Paper briefly received funding from a campus publications board before controversial content caused it to be banned from the MSU campus, but it continued to grow in popularity after the ban.

It subsequently went through a number of title changes, including goob yeak gergibal and Generation East Lansing, before merging with another paper, the Bogue Street Bridge, to form Joint Issue, which lasted until May 20, 1974.

In the Spring of 1966, MSU students James Friel and Stuart Jones, working from an idea by fellow student Steven Badrich, whom they had met at a fund-raising party at Kindman's house, created the comic strip Land Grant Man.