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Institutional development · Student experience, equity and outcomes · Brazil

Unicamp student paper O Patológico, started by medical students in 1964, passes 60 years

Jornal da Unicamp has profiled O Patológico, a student newspaper launched by medical students in 1964, before the University of Campinas (Unicamp) itself was founded.

Photo: TSE - Tribunal Superior Eleitoral / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

Why it matters: The profile presents O Patológico, created by medical students in 1964, as a newspaper that tells the history of the University of Campinas.

Jornal da Unicamp, the university's newspaper, reported that O Patológico, a student newspaper, was created in 1964 by medicine students.

According to the report, the paper was founded even before the University of Campinas (Unicamp) itself was established.

Jornal da Unicamp described the paper, now more than 60 years old, as having passed through generations and as telling the story of the university.

Editor’s view

Rachel Smith, Students and International Editor

Jornal da Unicamp presents O Patológico, created by medical students in 1964 ahead of the university's founding, as a living memory of Unicamp that has passed through generations.

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