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The Purdue Exponent is one of a handful of daily independent student newspapers, with most other...

The Purdue Exponent is one of a handful of daily independent student newspapers, with most other college newspapers being owned by the university or operated by the journalism school. The college newspaper serves Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It is published on weekdays during university semesters by the Purdue Student Publishing Foundation, and is Indiana's largest collegiate daily newspaper. The Exponent employs eight full-time professionals, relying for most operations on a staff of approximately 180 students, though the university has no journalism school. The Exponent's first edition was published on December 15, 1889. It has been a daily paper since 1906. The path to becoming an independent entity began in 1968, when the university removed William R. Smoot the 2nd as editor-in-chief. The moved followed critical and controversial columns in the newspaper, particularly one on October 23, 1968 that castigated university president Frederick L. Hovde. The university informed Smoot on Friday, Nov. 8 that he was being removed, but the sixteen editors on the staff refused to accept the dictum. On Saturday it put out a special edition with a headline, “We Will Still