About

The Weedicle was founded in 1761 by John Weedicle, a young journalist, revolutionary and pioneer. When he started The Weedicle, he was its only staff member and it was published annually until 1831, when the Internets was discovered. By then, The Weedicle had grown into a three-person operation and it began to publish weekly as an eNewsletter, which was sent to hundreds of students’ e-mails despite orders from the administration to stop spamming random NetIDs. The Weedicle published hourly until the Great Depression, when lack of ad revenue forced it cut back its staff to only 13 members and reduce its publication schedule to biweekly. In 1947, the editor of The Weedicle made the shrewd financial decision to supplement the paper’s income with profits from bounty hunting. Soon, The Weedicle was able to support daily publication and a staff of over 32 members, many of whom who worked full time in paper’s bounty hunting division.

Today, The Weedicle continues to serve the University community by combining the highest levels of journalistic integrity with a devotion to full coverage of the University. Our current staff is composed of 17 writers, reporters, columnists, editors, bounty hunters, copy-editors, bloggers, photographers, and publishers.