General University of Maine Publications

Document Type

Other

Editor

Rip Haskell, editor-in-chief

Dick Sprague, assistant editor

Sam Jones, assistant editor

Publisher

University of Maine

Publication Date

3-1-1948

Publisher location

Orono, Maine

Issue Number

3

Volume Number

2

Abstract/ Summary

Libraries and archives collect materials from different cultures and time periods to preserve and make available the historical record. As a result, materials such as those presented here may reflect sexist, misogynistic, abusive, racist, or discriminatory attitudes or actions that some may find disturbing, harmful, or difficult to view.

Both a humor and literary magazine, The Pine Needle was a University of Maine student-produced periodical that began publication in the fall of 1946, the first post-World War II semester that saw GIs returning to campus.

In the late 1940s, The Needle continued emphasizing alcohol and tobacco use as well as the sexualization of co-eds with the addition of lampooning women who were influenced to mimic Hollywood pin-ups, as well as those who rejected sexual advances.

The March 1948 issue features a pen and ink illustration by Lloyd Shapleigh depicting former, Liberal Vice President Henry A. Wallace looming over the Union building as a crowd of students with signs protest.

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