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Overview
Paul Zukerberg is a lawyer and Hamilton College alumnus, notable as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. During his time at Hamilton (mid-to-late 1970s), he was an active writer and campus journalist, and he founded a student non-fiction magazine called the Daily Planet.
Relevance to Research
The September 1976 Spectator (spec-1976-09-24) includes a letter to the editor signed “Paul Zukerberg,” a satirical piece comparing the new library security system to the TV show Star Trek, referencing various Hamilton administrators by character name and signing off as “Lieutenant Uhura.” The February 1977 Spectator (spec-1977-02-25) covers the launch of the Daily Planet, a new non-fiction magazine Zukerberg edited. The article describes his goals: to give campus authors a place to publish longer scholarly, humorous, and philosophical pieces outside the Spectator’s news format and the literary magazine Red Weather. He petitioned the publications board for a $493 budget to print 500 copies and aspired to eventually establish an on-campus press.
Notes
His name is spelled “Zukerberg” in the Hamilton sources (one ‘c’), consistent with his legal name; his son Mark Zuckerberg uses the more common spelling with ‘cc’.
Related Sources
- spec-1976-09-24_djvu.txt
- spec-1977-02-25_djvu.txt