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Kodon saw its first issue released in October of 1946. In its

earlyyears

early years Kodon was a monthly publication with short stories, cartoons, pictures and editorials. Over the years the format has changed

manytimes

many times and by 1960 was appearing seasonally, four times a school year. In the 1962-63 school year production of Kodon was suspended after

thewinter

the winter issue was deemed inappropriate, yet there was not much merit

insuch

in such a claim and Kodon returned the next school year.
Kodon

editorWesley

editor Wesley Craven knew that the fall 1962 issue of the magazine would

becontroversial

be controversial. In "A Warning from the Editor" he wrote: "It is the

convictionin

conviction in this office, that, in the arts the Fundamentalist Christian world, and more

specificallyWheaton

specifically Wheaton, is sadly short of its potential, and far behind its contemporaries. Therefore the copy of this magazine will remain (as long as the present

staffremains

staff remains), free and limited only by the criteria and the boundaries

ofartistry

of artistry." (Kodon, Fall 1962, p. 3.) After the winter issue,

similarlycontentious

similarly contentious in tone, the Board of Trustees suspended the publication for

theremainder

the remainder of the year. An examination of the contents of those two

issuessuggests

issues suggests that they represent youthful zeal and an impatience with others

whodid

who did not share their enthusiasm for the arts, rather than any show of

vulgarityor

vulgarity or offensiveness of language. In the fall of 1963 Kodon resumed publication. (Bechtel, Paul. Wheaton College: a heritage remembered. 1984. p. 265.)
In 1972

theeditors

the editors planned to make a Christian board game spoof of Monopoly called "Monopoli." Lawyers for Parker Brothers held that the publication was

aviolation

a violation of copyright ordered all copies to be destroyed

thussignaling

thus signaling the end of the "Monopoli" project. The name Kodon comes

formthe

form the Greek word for 'bell'.