What's in a claim?

So The Simpsonian has its own Facebook group now, boasting 88 members as of today. The goal is to allow for open communication between staff members and readers, and to serve as a forum for discussions on various facets of the paper.

This week, just that happened. A discussion was started regarding the claim of the Simpsonian to be the "oldest continuously published student newspaper in the country." One Facebooker posted that she was questioning the validity of this claim, and that it may, in fact, belong to another paper.

Other posters got on the response, questioning if perhaps the "student run" facet was what made The Simpsonian the heir to the longest-published throne, and that the validity was in the wording.

I think the ethical question here regards this stake on validity. While we may be able to track down a Simpson historian who can lay the groundwork for our campus newspaper owning the title, Ohio Wesleyan (one school claiming the same thing as Simpson in regards to newspaper history) may be able to find their own information to validate their claim.

I don't think the newspaper should remove the claim from its banner each week, merely due to a Facebook thread, but I find it interesting that many times, when someone wants to stake a claim in history, someone else is right there beside you, wanting to claim the exact same thing.
So who's right? I would say "time will tell," but supposedly, it already has.