The Red Herring
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The Red Herring is a student-produced humour magazine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calling itself the university's "only intentionally funny student publication", it has been in existence since 1988. The original staff consisted of David Apen[www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/unitedcolours/features/esol_kosovan.shtml], Strother B. Purdy III[www.strotherpurdy.com], Laurie Wesley and Cleo Paskal. Derek Dawson did the bulk of the illustraions. It was laid out on Strother's steam-driven Mac 512, which he later sold to Cleo after failing to get her to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. She should have bought the bridge instead. The first issues were funded in the traditional manner, by their parents. Later some sentimental alumni, culled from a list of editors of long dead McGill humour magazines (the Fig Leaf anyone?) helped out as well.
From the start the SSMU was not a fan. It was a good sign.
The name probably originated from the fact that, as an entertainment magazine, it distracts students from the "real task at hand" of academia and it accordingly serves as a red herring to student work loads. It is entirely run and produced by university students and accepts submissions from the greater student populace in all forms of written comedy.
It has traditionally held 1-2 stand-up comedy shows each academic school year as well, although recent funding issues have called the continuation of such into question.
Due to a controversy with the school's administration in 2004, the Herring recently added the tagline "NOT the Official McGill University Humour Magazine and Satire Concern" so as to delineate themselves as being officially detached from any actual workings of the institution itself. This line serves as both a humorous title and also as a disclaimer of independence from McGill, giving them more political freedom in their content.
It currently publishes 4 issues each academic school year on a bi-monthly basis.
Others who have written for the magazines include:
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