The Board Of Student Publications is also responsible for hiring and firing the editor in chief.
The first recorded issue of the student-published newspaper at North Dakota State University (then North Dakota Agricultural College), titled "The Weekly Spectrum" was published in December 1896.
[1] In April 1969, a published ad by then-NDSU student body president and subsequent front-page article in The Spectrum resulted in national attention and lead to the Zip to Zap party-turned-riot.
[2] Either the Spectrum or its editors have won awards in the Associated Collegiate Press Best of the Midwest competition from 2013 to 2020.
The Spectrum has won a Best of Show award for each competition year, switching categories due to frequency of publication in 2015 (to Four-year Weekly Newspaper)[3] and 2018 (to Four-year More Than Weekly Newspaper).