New White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tore into the media on his first day on the job Saturday

He blasted the media for 'deliberately false reporting' and made the dubious claim that 'this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period'

Spicer also clashed with members of the student paper while on the student government at Connecticut College

DailyMail.com has unearthed an infamous article where the college paper referred to him in print as 'Sean Sphincter,' drawing an angry response and a demand for an apology

After what the publication claimed was an accident, Spicer brought the school paper before a judicial council and took it to the administration

'He went nuts!'

College alumni traded yellowed articles about Spicer on Sunday following his media tirade

Another snarky school paper at the time wrote that Spicer can 'talk and talk and talk ... without saying anything of consequence'

New White House press secretary Sean Spicer's angry tirade against White House reporters on his first day on the job wasn't his first clash with the press: while in student government he brought a complaint against his college paper after it called him 'Sean Sphincter.'

The 1993 article, which was uncovered by DailyMail.com, offers the first confrontation in what may prove to be contentious relations with the 'dishonest media' despised by Spicer's boss, President Donald Trump.

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The article in the College Voice describes an effort to ban smoking within school buildings at Connecticut College. It passed on a 21-1-0 vote, and would not have impacted the status quo policy in the library, although what inflamed Spicer was the kicker.

'The policy also will not correct the current policy of creating smoking and non-smoking rooms for self-scheduled exams, according to an amendment added by Sean Sphincter, house senator of JA,' according to the article, which references the Jane Addams dorm, where Spicer was a representative.

Spicer, understandably, wasn't pleased.

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer, pictured at a White House swearing in ceremony Sunday, tore into the media on his first day on the job. When he was in college two decades ago, he clashed with the college paper after an unfortunate mangling of his name

'They said it was spell check error,' one former College Voice staffer recalls. 'It just never got caught.'

Spicer didn't buy it, and demanded an apology – and more.

In an angry letter to the paper, he responded, 'I am writing in response to the article in the April 26 edition of the Voice in which my name was "misspelled".'

Contrary to the paper's claim that it was a mistake, Spicer called it 'a malicious and intentional attack,' the Washington Post noted in a profile in August.

'The First Amendment does uphold the right to free speech, however, this situation goes beyond the bounds of free speech,' he added.

Spicer didn't just complain – he in effect sued the paper by bringing a complaint before the college Judiciary Council, recalls then-publisher of the paper, Jon Finnimore.

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The College Voice of Connecticut referred to Spicer as 'Sean Sphincter' in a 1993 article about an effort he promoted as a member of student government. Spicer 'went nuts,' according to the paper's publisher, and brought a compliant to a school judicial council

Spicer laced into the media Saturday, his first day on the job, calling out 'shameful and wrong' efforts to 'lessen the enthusiasm' for the inauguration

Another campus publication, the Blats satire magazine, wrote at the time that Spicer can 'talk and talk and talk ... without saying anything of consequence'

Spicer attended Connecticut College, where he was an outspoken conservative on campus and served on the student government

Spicer blasted at the paper in his letter: 'The response that I received from the publication was that [it] was [an] unintentional mistake which they rectified with a correction,’ Spicer wrote. ‘Maybe I am not all that familiar with the production of a “newspaper,” but I am really not sure how this can be explained as unintentional.’

He continued: ‘I find this notion of the paper subscribing to professional standards rather silly considering the weekly habit of misspellings, misquotes, and half-truths. If the paper is indeed in the habit of using professional standards, maybe they should start to write and report like professionals.’

'For those of us who were involved with student government, for those of us involved with the student newspaper it was a big deal,' Finnimore said when contacted by DailyMail.com. The council had the ability to boot students off campus.

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Finnimore, who is now a technology manager at job site Monster.com, said that when the author wrote the infamous article in 1993, an early version of autocorrect had changed 'Spicer' to 'sphincter.'

The author kept it in as a way to get a laugh out of editors. 'We all took the paper copy and marked it with an editor mark saying, 'change this,' Finnimore said. 'We put 'ha ha' or 'funny,' but marked it this must be changed.'

But all through the chain, 'none of us actually changed it.'

More than two decades later, Finnimore acknowledged, 'We made a mistake. We definitely screwed up.' But it is Spicer's furious response that sticks with him.

Spicer in a 1992 article in the Connecticut College paper

'When I presented him with data about U.S. libel law [regarding writings about public figures], he did not care. This is the whole perception of, "The facts don’t matter, I need to have my viewpoint upheld."'

Spicer 'just couldn’t let it go, even when presented with facts, which is I think an allegory for some of our current situation today.'

'It did refer to him as Sean Sphincter, and he went nuts!' Finnemore continued. 'He brought official judiciary board charges against the newspaper for libel – got the administration involved. There was a significant amount of contention around that.'

'For those of us who were involved with student government, for those of us involved with the student newspaper it was a big deal,' he recalled.

An article in another college paper mocked the future press secretary with a sarcastic tone.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Spicer's first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media's reporting on the inauguration's crowd size

'Sean Spicer can talk and talk and talk, and after the dust settles and after the air is still, man mouths are quivering in awe and wonder at the way Sean can spin his yarn out for miles, without saying anything of consequence,' according to the article in satire publication Blats.

Spicer didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about the decades-old incident.

On Saturday, Spicer also went after the motives of the collective media, after numerous outlets relied on aerial photos to conclude there were far more people at Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration – notwithstanding Trump's claim that a million or million and a half people attended

'These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong,' Spicer said.

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'There's been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold Donald Trump accountable,' Spicer continued.

'And I'm here to tell you that it goes two ways. We're going to hold the press accountable, as well. The American people deserve better. And as long as he serves as the messenger for this incredible movement, he will take his message directly to the American people where his focus will always be.'

Spicer did not take any questions after delivering the lecture.

His media lecture on Saturday notwithstanding, Spicer has formed constructive relations with many media members for years during his time on Capitol Hill. In his first tweet, he thanked outgoing White House press secretary Josh Earnest for his help with the transition.

After his upbraiding of the press, Brian Fallon, who likely would have held the job had Hillary Clinton won, weighed in. He told CNN on Sunday he was concerned that 'this is somebody that is going to put his standing with his boss ahead of his integrity and his standing with the press corps.'