Retrograde hits print

After four months in publication, UTD’s official student-run newspaper The Retrograde is releasing its inaugural print issue Jan. 23. 

The Retrograde currently plans to publish a new print issue at least once a month, totaling at least four print issues per semester in fall and spring and three issues over the summer. Readers can pick up print copies of The Retrograde from any of the Mercury-branded newsstand kiosks across campus or from The Retrograde’s on-campus boothing and tabling events, and can continue accessing articles and puzzles online at retrogradenews.com. 

The print edition will contain the most recent batch of news, life & arts and opinion stories The Retrograde publishes, and will be distributed around campus the first Thursday of each month during fall and spring semesters, barring university holidays or extenuating circumstances. If The Retrograde is able to publish more frequently, papers will also be distributed the third Thursday of each month. Subsequent print issues will contain comics and activities including crosswords and sudoku puzzles, crime blotters and reprinted stories from former student newspaper The Mercury’s archives about timely, topical or interesting subject matter.  

Occasionally, The Retrograde will release a special issue dedicated to a specific theme or commemorating an event that may deviate from the standard print issue format. Special issues may have fewer pages, sport fewer articles, lack comics and activities or police blotters or be released outside of The Retrograde’s typical publishing schedule depending on the needs of UTD’s community. Examples of special issues under The Mercury include the May 20, 2024 issue detailing and investigating the police response to UTD’s May 1 student protest and the March 18 issue from earlier that year discussing student deaths. 

The print edition is currently financed entirely through the advertisements in its pages and does not rely on grants or donations given to The Retrograde. UTD and other academic programs, community members and local and national businesses and organizations can purchase advertisements with The Retrograde at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and finance department. The Retrograde does not officially endorse any of the content or services promoted in its print or web advertisements and reserves the right to turn away any potential advertiser. 

The Retrograde is in a continuous state of change and will update readers if any changes to print frequency, distribution or financing are made.  

All print issues of The Retrograde will be accessible as digital PDFs through the website. Non-local readers and readers unable to find a particular issue of The Retrograde can contact theretrogradenews@gmail.com so a copy can be saved and sent to them.