Rumpus Magazine

Rumpus is a tabloid publication produced six times a year by students at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. Visually resembling the New York Post, Rumpus is a controversial, humorous publication with content ranging from campus gossip to investigative reporting.

Rumpus was first published in fall 1992 by a half-dozen associates from the Yale Political Union and Calhoun College, one of Yale's twelve residential colleges. Rumpus claims to be the "Oldest College Tabloid", a play on the Yale Daily News "Oldest College Daily." (Source: Rumpus 10th -anniversary issue.)

The founders of Rumpus aimed to write "to be read" by fellow students; its motto is "The only magazine at Yale about Stuff at Yale."

Rumpus' annual "Yale's Fifty Most Beautiful People" list features glamour shots and profiles of the 25 most attractive male students and the 25 most attractive female students of Yale College. "Rumpus Rumpus" is a column devoted to rumors and embarrassing campus hijinks. "Remedial Media" critiques other campus publications including the Yale Daily News and the Yale Herald. Rumpus also closely follows the doings of Yale's secret societies, including Skull and Bones, to which both Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush belonged when they were seniors at Yale. The magazine regularly exposes membership lists and once even infiltrated the Skull and Bones retreat at Deer Iland (sic) in Canada.

Rumpus was sued for libel in 1997 by a local New Haven landlord and ultimately settled the case. Source: Yale Daily News, October 30, 2001.

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