Clareification
Clareification is the student newsletter of Clare College, a college of the University of Cambridge. It is produced weekly or fortnightly by editor(s) elected each year by the student body.
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Union of Clare Students |
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 . The college's former senior tutor, Dr 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"., 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.
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:
Term of Office Editor(s) 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
External links
A summary of the controversial issue and the ensuing controversy on Harrys Place 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.