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Mansfield History Online

Mansfield University's Student Newspaper

The Flashlight newspaper banner featuring an image of a flashlight. Text: The Flashlight, shining light on CU-Mansfield since 1926

The Flashlight is the student newspaper of Commonwealth University - Mansfield. This page contains links to the current issue on the day of release and to the back issues (1926 to present) that have been digitized.

The Flashlight - Back Issues

Lost Flashlights

During our digitization project, we scanned everything available in the library and the Flashlight offices at the time. These are issues that are missing from our collection. If you have them, we would love to add them to our collection.

Missing Flashlight Issues - Known Missing Items:

  • 1926-27 Volume 1 #2, 4   
  • 1927-28 Volume 3 #2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14, 22
  • 1928-29 Volume 4 #1, 2, 6, 9, 12-20  
  • 1929-30 Volume 5 #6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15
  • 1930-31 Volume 6 #2, 3, 10, 13, 14, 17
  • 1931-32 Volume 7 #1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18  
  • 1932-33 Volume 8 #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9  
  • 1933-34 Volume 9 #5    
  • 1934-35 Volume 10 #3, 5, 7, 11  
  • 1935-36 Volume 11 #2 (our copy has a couple of articles clipped from the original), 5, 7
  • Note, someone told me that the issue for Dec. 9, 1935 is
  • labeled Issue 4, but is actually Issue 5. If that is the case, we are missing the real
  • Issue 4. We do have the Dec. 9 1935 issue in our collection   
  • 1938-39 Volume 14 #5    
  • 1940-41 Volume 16 #2, 4, 5
  • 1945  Volume 19 #5
  • 1958  Volume 35 #1
  • 1967-68 Volume 44 #1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19
  • 1968-69 Volume 45 #4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 20
  • 1969  Volume 46 #1, 3
  • Fall 1970: Volume 47 #3
  • Spring 1976:  Volume 53 #12
  • Fall 1976:  Volume 54 #8
  • Spring 1977: Volume 54 #16
  • Spring 1979:  3/16
  • Fall 1979:  Volume 54 #12
  • Spring 1980:  2/21, 4/10, 4/17
  • Spring 1989: Volume 65 #13
  • Fall 1991: Volume 70 #3
  • Spring 1996: Volume 76 #8
  • Fall 1996: Volume 77 # 6
  • Spring 1997: Volume 77 #17, 20
  • Fall 1997: Volume 78 #6
  • Spring 1998: Volume 78 #18
  • Fall 1998: Volume 79 #5, 10
  • Spring 2005: Volume 86 #7
  • Spring 2008: Volume 90 #8, 9
  • Fall 2008: Volume 91 #11, 12
  • Spring 2010:  Volume 94 #11
  • Fall 2010: Volume 95 #2,3,4,7,8,9
  • Spring 2011: Volume 96 #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11
  • Fall 2011:  Volume 97 #1,2,3,5,6,9,12
  • Spring 2012: Volume 98 #5, 7, 9
  • Fall 2012: Volume 99 #1-4, 6-

Unknown Missing Flashlights:

For the following semesters, we don’t know if we have all the issues or not. It’s hard to tell for years without issue numbers. Below are the issues we do have. If you have anything in addition to these, please let us know.

  • 1978 Fall - 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 11/10, 11/17 & 12/8
  • 1978 Spring - 2/3, 2/16, 2/23 (cover), 3/2 (inside), 3/9, 3/16, 4/7, 4/13, 4/27, 5/5 & 5/11
  • 1980 Fall - Volume 55, Numbers 1, 2 (September 11), 2 (September 18), 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12
  • 1981 Spring - Volume 55, Numbers 13, 15 & 16
  • 1999 Spring - Volume 80, Number 1, and Volume 79, Numbers 8 (12/13/1999 cover, 1/29/1999 inside), 8 (2/5), Volumes 9-18
  • 2000 Fall - 8/26, 9/6, 9/13, 9/20, 9/28, 10/4, 10/11, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/29 & 12/6
  • 2000 Spring - Volume 80, Numbers 12-21, and unnumbered issue dated April 26
  • 2001 Spring - 1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18 & 4/25
  • 2002 Spring - 1/16, 1/23 (missing p. 6-7), 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/27, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24