About This Archive

This site is an independent reading archive of The Rune, the student newspaper of Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Louisville, Kentucky, sponsored by the Ursuline Sisters. The paper described itself as a Sacred Heart Academy supported and funded publication whose purpose was to enlighten, educate, and entertain. The archive exists so that the stories those students wrote remain readable after the original site stopped being maintained.

Everything here was restored from Wayback Machine captures of therunenews.org. The 203 restored articles run from October 2012 to April 2018 and are grouped by school year: 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2016-17 and 2017-18. The last two years are by far the fullest, with game reports, new teacher spotlights, service drives and campus events posted almost weekly. The earlier years survive as a thinner set of longer features, reviews and sports recaps. No articles from the 2015-16 school year were recovered from the captures.

Not every captured article was restored. Posts that centered on individual students who were minors at the time were left out on purpose: senior wills, student profiles and memorials, pieces built around personal or health details, weekly event listicles and posts that consisted only of a video. In some of the articles that were kept, family, health and contact details were removed. These choices favor the privacy of former students over completeness, and no attempt has been made to fill the gaps.

Bylines, headlines and publication dates are kept exactly as published, because the student writers deserve credit for their work. This archive is not affiliated with Sacred Heart Academy, Sacred Heart Schools, the Ursuline Sisters or the former staff and advisors of The Rune, and it is not an official record of the school. It takes no submissions, corrections or new articles.

How the paper described itself

The Rune is a Sacred Heart Academy supported and funded publication. Its purpose is to enlighten, educate, and entertain.

The archive holds 203 articles. Photographs that showed individual students up close were left out.