Cutler Publications is a legally independent non-profit. Our principal aim is to foster responsible, high-quality student journalism at Colorado College. 

Cutler Publications was founded in 1969 in response to a crisis. The weekly student newspaper then called the Tiger, reported on a college symposium on violence by printing a large photo of an obscenity next to a photo of a police officer beating a protester. The caption asked the reader to answer which of the two images was truly obscene.

 After publication, administrators and trustees interrogated the Editor-in-Chief of the Tiger. Some suggested that CC’s administration should have editorial control over student publications.

Ruth Barton, an English professor at Colorado College with a degree in journalism, was furious that administrators and trustees were attempting to influence student publications. In the wake of the crisis, Barton founded Cutler Publications — a legally independent non-profit designed to protect student publications from external influences. Barton was also instrumental in the creation of CC’s Writing Center and Journalism Minor.

In its half-century of existence since, Cutler Publications has overseen and advised many student-run publications, some of which have since been discontinued. Today, Cutler oversees The Catalyst, a weekly newspaper; Cipher, a bi-monthly long-form magazine; The Leviathan, a journal of literary and visual arts; and Anamnesis, a philosophy journal.