Revived in 1989, The White and Blue continue to serve as the official outlet for the literary interests and works of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Society members.  It is named after an earlier short-lived Societal newspaper of the same name that was initially published in 1894 and eventually merged with the Tar Heel. The White and Blue was originally created to oppose the Tar Heel's overt focus on the fraternities and athletics at UNC Chapel Hill (making The White and Blue's eventual merger sadly ironic). When it was revived in the 1980s, it was originally planned to be a quarterly release but ended up becoming a once-per-session publication. In general, The White and Blue has been concerned with collecting the best speeches given before the Joint Senate as well as poetry and other works specifically written by guests and Senators for the paper. One of its founding goals was to grant the Societies greater name recognition and thus many of the earliest issues included statements about the Societies and their events. Clerks were also put in charge of detailing the activities of the Society's previous session. The cost of printing the publication initially fell upon the North Caroliniana Society sponsored by H.G. Jones. Eventually, these expenses fell upon the societies themselves. A committee was created to run the newspaper with the committee chair being granted the monicker of "editor". Senator James Burroughs (Di) was the first "editor" in charge of the White and Blue.