University of Hawaiʻi	Ka Leo o Hawaiʻi Index
Search Options: - Simple - Complicated Years Covered: September 1922 - May 1924 Volumes Covered: Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 Notes - About This Index - About Ka Leo - Credits - Access to Copies ---------- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library Hawaiian and Pacific Collections 2550 McCarthy Mall Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-8264 hawnpac@hawaii.edu	ABOUT KA LEO O HAWAIʻI Ka Leo o Hawaiʻi is the student newspaper of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. History In late Spring 1922, a number of students recognized that the student enrollment had grown to a size large enough to support a campus newspaper. However the semester was coming to a close and there was not enough time for wider discussion among the student body and ASUH. When the Fall term opened, fearing there would not be time to establish the newspaper that term, a group of interested students took it upon themselves to produced and published the University of Hawaiʻi’s first campus newspaper, The Hawaii Mirror. Volume 1, no. 1 made its debut on September 14, 1922. The objective was to produce a weekly publication, distributed via subscription, that would include news of the campus and keep all students informed about campus events. The newspaper also tried to build strong school spirit and support activities it deemed important. From the outset, it saw itself as only a starting point, with the aim of having the ASUH eventually take over the management of the paper. Funding came primarily through advertisements. By mid-semester ASUH did take up the call to make the newspaper an official organ of the governing body. In early November 1922, a contest was held to find a new name for the University weekly and a campus vote was taken. Ka Leo o Hawaii (The Voice of Hawaii), the name submitted by Edwin Bryan, Jr., won and the name of the newspaper was changed. Control of the paper was also transferred to ASUH and the first issue under the new name was published on November 15, 1923 (vol. 1, no. 10). Today Today Ka Leo o Hawaiʻi is published by the University's student-run Board of Publications. It is issued in print three times a week, with a circulation of 10,000. Its website offers current and supplementary content and media, and access to issues going back to July 2001.