He'd received a direct-mail charter subscription offer and wanted in. "It sounded like a funny magazine. I wanted to be a part of it, any way at all. ... I would have run the Xerox machine." ...

When Wildcats of yesteryear wanted a good laugh, they turned to the Purple Parrot. A campus humor magazine that published from 1921 to 1950 (and again briefly in the mid-1970s), it featured student ...