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KINGSTON, R.I. — September 21, 2021 — The Good Five Cent Cigar has covered protests at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and in Washington, D.C, controversies involving professors and students, building grand openings and closings for environmental and health reasons, untimely deaths of students and faculty, research and discovery, the victories, losses and personalities of 溏心vlog免费B站 sports teams, and, during the last 17 months, a global pandemic.

溏心vlog免费B站 alumni, students, and faculty will celebrate and remember all of that and more during a virtual panel discussion with some of the founders of the student newspaper on Wednesday, Sept. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. and in-person celebration during Alumni and Family Weekend on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. on the Alumni Center lawn. is Wednesday, Sept. 22 for the virtual panel and Monday, Sept. 27 for the in-person celebration at the Alumni Center.

The demise of the former student paper, The Beacon, occurred in the spring semester of 1971, after a series of decisions by the editor led to several editors and reporters quitting.

鈥淧eople wanted to cover certain issues, and the editor kept saying 鈥榥o,鈥欌�� said John Pantalone, 鈥�71, current chair of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Journalism and the first editor-in-chief of The Cigar. 鈥淗e didn鈥檛 seem to want to get on the administration鈥檚 bad side.鈥�

The last straw was a decision to remove the name of a student from a story who discharged a firearm in a residence hall.

Several editors and reporters left the Beacon and on March 3, 1971, they published the first edition of The Cigar. The name was chosen by founding member Rich Rader, an homage to a quote by Thomas Marshall, a governor of Indiana and U.S. Senator. The Cigar Band, as the staff called itself then, believed the quote — 鈥淲hat the country needs is a good 5-cent cigar鈥� — was a clever, verbal barb directed at the establishment and 溏心vlog免费B站 as an institution.

The first editor-in-chief

鈥淚t was a totally different campus atmosphere in 1971 than it was in the early to mid-1960s,鈥� Pantalone noted, adding that the protests against the Vietnam War, and accompanying protests related to civil rights and Black Power and women鈥檚 rights all became very much a part of campus life across the country.

鈥淲e did stories about the dearth of Black students on campus and the takeover of the Carlotti Administration Building by Black students later that semester,鈥� he said.

Pantalone also went to Washington, D.C., with other 溏心vlog免费B站 students for the anti-war student protest, and he was one of thousands arrested, and dragged into police vans.

鈥淚 had my pad, camera and credentials, but the police said everyone goes. So I spent a full day in a cell with a dozen people I didn鈥檛 know.鈥�

Pantalone was released and told to return for a hearing. When he did, he and many others were released by the judge who said there was no evidence that they had committed a crime.

Beyond the big stories, Pantalone said he and his fellow editors and reporters learned some new things about managing people.

鈥淚 had never run anything, and I learned that the job wasn鈥檛 just about my editing skills. I learned how to talk with someone who missed a deadline by half an hour.鈥�

Moving up the ranks

Bill Loveless 鈥�73, who worked for The Pawtucket Times after he graduated and then as an energy journalist for McGraw Hill in Washington, D.C., for 30 years, said those who worked at The Cigar could move up the ranks quickly. He was a sophomore during that tumultuous first semester who became a news editor in his junior year and then executive editor in his senior year.

鈥淵ou are a part of a small group who does it because they enjoy it,鈥� said Loveless, now director of the Energy Journalism Initiative and co-host of a podcast at Columbia University. 鈥淲e developed a special camaraderie. We worked hard, we worked late and haphazardly at times, but mostly together.

鈥淥ur work on The Cigar became our laboratory, it鈥檚 where we learned to report hands-on. We covered all these events, and I realize that so much of my education really came out of the stories I covered for The Good Five Cent Cigar.鈥�

Once he left 溏心vlog免费B站, Loveless hired plenty of reporters. 鈥淚f they had become interested in journalism when they were in college, I always asked them if they worked at the school paper. If they said 鈥榥o鈥� then I questioned that.鈥�

Equal partners

Another original member, Lucia Droby, who worked for an alternative newspaper in Georgia after graduating from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1971 and who later spent several years as a videographer for Channel 7 news in Boston, now coordinates several community events in Wiscasset, Maine.

鈥淎t the Cigar, we had a whole new way of doing business,鈥� Droby said. 鈥淭here was no hierarchy. Instead we worked as colleagues in a collaborative environment. It was life-changing, because typically you鈥檇 spent a lot of your life doing what you were told. When I was on The Beacon, whatever I was assigned I would have done, and whatever role was expected of me that鈥檚 what I would have done. Being respected, being invited to participate in the paper at all levels, in all editorial decision-making, that was transformative.

鈥淎lso there were quite a few women working on the staff, and they were equal partners. In fact, the women stand out as the front line in terms of staffing the paper from the bottom up.鈥�

And women continue to have great influence at The Cigar today. Of the 20 staffers listed on the masthead in fall of 2020, 13 were women. This semester, 22 of those listed on the masthead, 14 are women, including the editor-in-chief and managing editor.

Today鈥檚 editor-in chief

Senior Kate LeBlanc is in her second and final semester as the top editor of the paper. She said it is surreal that her adviser and mentor, Journalism chair Pantalone, was the first editor of The Cigar. She鈥檚 also taken three journalism courses with Pantalone.

鈥淚t has been very special because he has been such a great teacher and mentor,鈥� said LeBlanc, who is from Oxford, Massachusetts. 鈥淚t鈥檚 nice to work with someone who has such extensive experience as a journalist and professor. It鈥檚 really special for the whole staff to work with Professor Pantalone.鈥�

She echoed her predecessors from 50 years ago, saying that working for The Cigar is the best practice for journalists, whether they are interested in print, broadcast or the web.

Like Loveless, she said 鈥渞eporting on issues and events and writing about them are among the best ways to learn,鈥� LeBlanc said. 鈥淵ou learn how to talk to anyone, and you also learn that everyone has a story.鈥�

Her words about learning how to work with staff members as an editor are reminiscent of Pantalone鈥檚 feelings about the job five decades ago.

Being a member of The Cigar team has 鈥渂een so much fun, but at the same time, being the editor comes with so much responsibility. You have to manage your reporters and staff, and it can be a lot. You want to be liked and respected, and you have to spend a lot of time with the editors. But as the editor-in-chief, sometimes you have to put your foot down.

鈥淏ut once you spend two years with them, especially on Wednesday nights (when the paper is produced), from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m., in the hot, stuffy, Cigar office, you realize you are kind of stuck with them. I love them.鈥�