Capaha Arrow Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 2572, Scrapbook: 009

Identifier: 2007.103

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Articles from the Capaha Arrow and the Southeast Missourian relating to the Capaha Arrow and articles used in its issues.

Dates

Creation: 1937-1941

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

The Capaha Arrow is the University's student newspaper. Established in 1911, it is currently one of the oldest college newspapers still in publication. Notably, the second editor of the Capaha Arrow was Rush Limbaugh, Sr. who became a nationally recognized Missouri attorney and practiced law in Cape Girardeau until just before his passing at the age of 104 in 1996. Rush Limbaugh, Sr. is the grandfather of the media personality Rush Limbaugh.

After the university changed its mascot from Indians/Otahkians to Redhawks in October 2004, the newspaper dropped "Capaha" and is now known as simply The Arrow. It is still run by students in the Department of Mass Communications and publishes a weekly newspaper distributed throughout campus.