It seemed like the only outlet for writing humorous articles that are widely read. "I saw it as a way to write humorous articles. "The primary purpose for Rumpus is humor actual reporting," says freshman Pincus-Roth. You couldn't walk on campus without one of the phones ringing and someone saying, 'I'm trapped inside the phone,"' says Craig. "What happened over the next couple of weeks was amazing. Craig says when they published the numbers along with a map as to which phone went with the number, their intention was to help students protect their friends while walking alone at night: As the person walked alone on campus, the friend could call the phone asking if they had arrived at the next point. to obtain the phone numbers of all the campus safety phones. There was also a feature on a 22-inch french fry found in the dining hall.Īnd when there wasn't news, Rumpus made its own. Stories in the first few issues looked at the increasing amount of money being spent on bureaucracy and how a university official pressured a dean to admit an undeserving student whose family was an important donor. "Our view has always been that truth is stranger and funnier than anything you can make up." They were doing fluff pieces," says Ryan Craig, one of Rumpus' founders. "The campus was at its lowest point in terms of morale, and the existing campus media were not covering what was happening. The idea was that Rumpus would be an investigative newspaper that, as a tabloid, also had a sense of humor. quit and the university was enduring a budget crisis. Rumpus hit campus in 1992, after President Benno Schmidt Jr.
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