100 years after the Argentinian University Reform of 1918, we decide to take up this historical fact to analyze how the student's identity was consolidated throughout the press belonging to the student's union. The following article addresses this subject with the objective of describing the ideal of a "revolutionary student", based on the ideological discourses spread by the reformists. To that end, three emblematic documents will be studied: "El Manifiesto Liminar", "El Discurso del

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... curso del presidente de la Federación Universitaria Argentina", y "La Nueva Generación Americana". All of them show that the construction of the student's identity involved three aspects: an individual, a university and a socio-political one. As a conclusion, we affirm that in the media the student was conceived as a role model in the reformist movement, and a leader in the social and educational revolution. In the end, a brief reference will also be made regarding the actual state of this identity in the Argentinian universities.