Judging By Our Covers

By Rose Cahalan in May | June 2013, The Way Back on April 30, 2013 at 5:26 pm | No Comments

Celebrity alumni, sports stars, iconic campus buildings, mind-bending abstract illustrations—Alcalde covers have run the gamut throughout the past century, and some designs have aged better than others.

Hits

January 1966
A rare campus snowball fight fills us with nostalgia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 1960
We love this fierce, timeless portrait of the first female drummer in the Longhorn Band.

 

 

 

 

 

 

March|April 2011
Both retro and modern, this take on SXSW founder Lewis Black is one of our favorites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Misses

March|April 2006
Readers called this cover “completely wrong” and “hideous.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March|April 1984
A jogging computer—get it? We don’t either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 1972
Not sure what’s scarier: the lobotomy or the mustache!