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The Maine Campus is a twice-weekly newspaper produced by the students of the University of Maine. It covers university and Town of Orono events, and has four section: News, Opinion, Style and Sports. It serves the 20,000 students, faculty and staff of the University. Founded in 1875, it is the second oldest surviving paper in Maine. (The Bates Student, a college paper founded in 1873, is the oldest).
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Circulation and Distribution
Approximately 4,500 copies of The Campus are printed every issue. The Campus currently publishes a 20-page full color edition on Mondays and a 16-page spot color edition on Thursdays, excluding school vacations and exam weeks. The paper is distributed around campus, but mainly in the Memorial Union.
The Campus has been online since the late 1990s (MaineCampus.com). On April Fool's Day The Campus runs a spoof edition named The Maine Crapus.
History and Organization
The Maine Campus was founded in 1875, and has at time been a weekly, daily and semiweekly paper.
The Campus is a direct-funded student organization, meaning it is an independent company that receives money directly from the school and is not under the purview of student government. The Campus is partially funded through the communications fee and partially funded through ad sales. The paper is editorially independent of the university.
The newspaper is run by the editor in chief and the business manager. The editor in chief makes all content decisions and is the public face of the newspaper, while the business manager has final say on business decisions. The paper also has a board composed of the editor in chief, the news editor, the Web editor, the sports editor, the production manager, the style editor, the photography editor, the opinion editor and the head copy editor. Unlike many other college newspapers, The Campus does not have any non-student employees.
In fall 2009, The Maine Campus will switch from tabloid to broadsheet.
Staff
The 2009-2010 staff is as follows:
William P. Davis, Editor in Chief
Dylan Riley, News Editor
Kegan Zema, Style Editor
Mario Moretto, Opinion Editor
Adam Clark, Sports Editor
Lisa Haberzettl, Head Copy Editor
Amy Brooks, Photo Editor
Alicia Mullins, Design Editor/Production Manager
Advertising Manager - Shayna Cavalieri
Asst. News Editor - Mary Emmi
Features Editor - Rhiannon Sawtelle
Asst. Photo Editor - Edward Fontaine
Copy Editors - Megan Neff, Kaley Roberts, Chelsea Cameron, Thomas St. Pierre, Casey Hill
Production Assistants - Andrew Catalina, Katelin Walling
News Staff Reporters - Sam Cohen, Aislinn Sarnacki, Melinda Hart, Alex Leonard
Style Staff Writers - Spencer Morton
Notable alumni
Stephen King (former columnist, Steve King's Garbage Truck)
