The paper has been was first published February 2, 1949; its first issue was titled,
You Name It, then changing the name of its second issue to the
Beachcomber. This name continued to be used until the 1960s, when it was renamed
The Corsair. The paper temporarily went exclusively online during the height of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the first time it had done so. The paper returned to its hybrid online/in-print format at the beginning of the Spring 2021 semester. The paper is written completely by students of the college, directed by a faculty advisor and assisted by a layout editor. In another, the paper's reporting on alleged censorship and aggression against student publications by the college administration brought controversy.
The Corsair made news nationally through the
Associated Press in 1991 when, as part of an editorial on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, the paper gave out birth control devices in their individual issues. In addition,
The Corsair has had photographs included in
The New York Times, has had writings and editorials quoted or cited by published books, and has had former writers and editors write for nationwide papers, such as
USA Today. == Associations ==