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It first ceased publication in 1933, as current dean Samuel T. Arnold announced that “The demand for publications of this type appears to have waned considerably." In the early 1960s, it was revived for a brief period of time, only to disband again the following year. As noted by the
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s first issue showed a girl in party dress and hat emerging from a bandbox holding a small bear; it proclaimed this the “Coming Out Number,” and the masthead identified it as “Vintage of 1920 ... Jugful Number 1.”
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returned as an independent magazine, styled after the short-form structure of the 1920s and 30s. It continues to be published in print once per semester, and is continuously updated year-round online.
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releases about five hundred copies of a new issue. Each issue has a theme to which most of the material relates, such as “religion,” “the future,” “evil” and “inventions.”
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style of the 1967-2008 period, instead opting for a clean black-and-white design with content more akin to the long-form satire found in
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features humorous content which mocks popular culture, fashion trends, politics, humorous illustrations, and events around the
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There is a literal brown jug that has been passed down from editor to editor for an indeterminate number of years.
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is about twenty-two pages in length and features mainly satirical articles in the style of
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Andrew Barlow ‘00, co-author of A Portrait of Yo Mama As a Young Man
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has clashed with administration with its sharp satiric writing, as
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has been dissolved and resurrected a number of times by various
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and ran under that moniker until it was rechristened as
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was editor and cartoonist for the Jug in 1924 and 1925.
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was adopted by members of Brown's satirical newspaper,
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S. J. Perelman
The Brown Noser
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The Brown Noser


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