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It is usually published every [[fortnight]] through the [[academic year]], and began in 1985 as the ''Ribble Echo''. The name originally stood for '''P'''reston '''L'''iberal '''U'''ndergraduate '''T'''abloid '''O'''ffering. In recent years, its format has varied from newspaper to a glossy magazine. It is now printed in tabloid format with colour photography. |
It is usually published every [[fortnight]] through the [[academic year]], and began in 1985 as the ''Ribble Echo''. The name originally stood for '''P'''reston '''L'''iberal '''U'''ndergraduate '''T'''abloid '''O'''ffering. In recent years, its format has varied from newspaper to a glossy magazine. It is now printed in tabloid format with colour photography. |
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In 1992 the magazine was the subject of national media scrutiny after the then Students Union VP Women's Officer Maxine Anne-Ross was quoted in Pluto as saying "if a man buys a woman flowers and chocolates to ensure sex upon a one night stand then that is rape". The Daily Sport plus one or two national tabloids reported the story and Ms Ross barely survived a vote of No Confidence as a result. A vote of No Confidence was simultaneously held against the VP Press Officer (editor of Pluto) Paul Tate for having published the story. He also survived the vote. |
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In 1993 a huge sweating mound of blubber named Matt Tucker (his name has now become rhyming slang for Fat F***er) became editor of Pluto after cheating in the elections by tearing down opponents' posters and making false promises with regard to what he'd publish in the magazine if elected. The doorway to the Pluto office had to be widened to allow him to get through it. He remains the only editor of the magazine to be legally classified as a saturated fat. |
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In 1998, Pluto was awarded Guardian 'Student Newspaper of the Year'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.johnlisterwriting.com/cv.html |title=John Lister: Freelance writer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Union/bf/9899/949.pdf |title=University of Surrey Students' Newspaper, see page 2}}</ref> |
In 1998, Pluto was awarded Guardian 'Student Newspaper of the Year'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.johnlisterwriting.com/cv.html |title=John Lister: Freelance writer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Union/bf/9899/949.pdf |title=University of Surrey Students' Newspaper, see page 2}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:42, 12 February 2012
Pluto is a student newspaper at the University of Central Lancashire's Students' Union.
It is usually published every fortnight through the academic year, and began in 1985 as the Ribble Echo. The name originally stood for Preston Liberal Undergraduate Tabloid Offering. In recent years, its format has varied from newspaper to a glossy magazine. It is now printed in tabloid format with colour photography.
In 1992 the magazine was the subject of national media scrutiny after the then Students Union VP Women's Officer Maxine Anne-Ross was quoted in Pluto as saying "if a man buys a woman flowers and chocolates to ensure sex upon a one night stand then that is rape". The Daily Sport plus one or two national tabloids reported the story and Ms Ross barely survived a vote of No Confidence as a result. A vote of No Confidence was simultaneously held against the VP Press Officer (editor of Pluto) Paul Tate for having published the story. He also survived the vote.
In 1993 a huge sweating mound of blubber named Matt Tucker (his name has now become rhyming slang for Fat F***er) became editor of Pluto after cheating in the elections by tearing down opponents' posters and making false promises with regard to what he'd publish in the magazine if elected. The doorway to the Pluto office had to be widened to allow him to get through it. He remains the only editor of the magazine to be legally classified as a saturated fat.
In 1998, Pluto was awarded Guardian 'Student Newspaper of the Year'.[1][2]
In the 2005/6 academic year, Pluto's Editor, Communications Officer Mark Hudson (now with The Sun newspaper) relaunched the organ as a fortnightly tabloid newspaper with a more upmarket pull-out supplement modelled extensively on The Guardian's G2, edited by Domenico Sanna and James Hoare, the latter now News Editor at extreme metal magazine Terrorizer. Despite mostly new staff, the format was maintained under the Editor, Communications Officer Nicholas Graham Hodder.
Ironically, Pluto sometimes uses the below Masthead tagline "Furthest From The Sun?", in reference to the British national tabloid format "red top" newspaper. This was ostensibly due to The Sun being previously banned from being sold in the Union Shop (now a Co-Op/Ess general store) because of perceived sexism of topless photography of "page 3 girls". The tag line was removed during re-launch in late autumn 2007 with a new layout, improvements in sub-editing and redesigned masthead. Pluto now has its own website that takes reader comments along with staff blogs.
Nicholas Graham Hodder, the Communications Officer for 2006/7 (and member of Central Lancashire's University Challenge 2007 team), went on to write for PC Utilities magazine. Hodder was replaced by Ed(ward) Walker with a team of slightly expanded staff.
In 2008, the elected 'Communications Officer' role was abolished due to Student Union governance reforms. To replace it, the role of 'Media Officer' was created to enable the person in this position to concentrate entirely on student media. Elections were held in April 2008 and Andrew Squire was elected as the UCLan Student Union's first Media Officer, replacing Ed(ward) Walker as Pluto Editor. Squire is now responsible for Pluto, PR1 (the magazine inserted into Pluto), Frequency (radio station) and PS-TV (the TV station Preston Student Television).
Completing his year in office during Summer 2009, Andrew Squire was replaced by the newly elected John Crossley.