Clareification

Clareification
Type	Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)	Union of Clare Students
Editor	Meryn Banks

Clareification is the student newsletter of Clare College, a college of the University of Cambridge. It is produced termly^{[citation needed]} by editor(s) elected each year by the student body.

In 2005, it won the 'Best College Paper' award in The Cambridge Student.

Controversy

In 2007, in a guest-edited edition devoted to religious satire, entitled Crucification, the magazine re-printed one of the Danish Muhammad cartoons which provoked an international incident when they were originally published 15 months earlier.

The guest editor was taken into hiding due to the threat of violent reprisals.^[1] The college's former senior tutor, Patricia Fara, issued a statement saying, "The college finds the publication and the views expressed abhorrent." The college called a Court of Discipline to judge the student and suspended the newsletter's funding. The Cambridge Evening News described the issue as "racist",^[2] in an article in which an "insider" suggested that the magazine might constitute "racial incitement". Two students were subsequently interviewed under caution by police in connection with the issue.^[3]

Following the incident, the Union of Clare Students Executive independently published two further issues, predominantly devoted to satirising the coverage of the controversy. A new editor was elected the following academic year.

Editors

Past editors of Clareification have been:

1997-8 Bruce Greenwood
1998-9 Peter Morley
1999–2000 Tim Moore
2000-1 Matt Kirshen
2001-2 James Bench-Capon
2002-3 Jozef Tarrant
2003-4 Zoë Morgan
2004-5 Seth Alexander Thévoz
2005-6 Ben Lambert
2006-7 Jonathan Birch
2007-8 Luke Surl
2008-9 Matt Cliffe
2009-10 Andrew Pinnington
2010-11 Ahir Shah and Alastair Lewis
2011-12 Tom Breeze and Magnus Maharg
2012-13 Alex Walmsley and Joe Goddard
2013-14 Matt Hempstead
2014-15 Euan Holmes, Morven Macaulay and Lizzie Walsh
2015-16 Brad Lindsay, Matt Wood and Elliot Pulver
2016-17 Kate Chapman, Ellie Jackson and Tommy Gale
2017-18 Sam Stewart and Jake Cornwall Scoones
2018-19 Alex Wardle-Solano
2019-20 Jonah Zur and James Rodgers
2020-21 Samuel Pumfrey-Sheppard and Adam Oussena
2021-22 Lily Isaacs, Constanza Meade and Matilda Sidel
2022-23 Nia Lowri Morris, Ella O'Loughlin and Molly Wilson
2023-24 Dylan Sudworth
2024-25 Meryn Banks and Sally Edser

References

External links

A summary of the controversial issue and the ensuing controversy on Harrys Place^{[permanent dead link‍]} blog.

The offending pages on Pub Philosopher blog.

Critical analysis of the controversy in The Berry, Spiked Online, New Statesman, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited.

Home page [4]^{[permanent dead link‍]}

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