The Maine Campus

The October 19, 2009, front page of The Maine Campus.
Publisher	None
Editor-in-chief	Michael Shepherd
News editor	Beth Kevit
Managing editor, design	MacKenzie Rawcliffe
Opinion editor	Madelyn Kearns
Sports editor	Jesse Scardina
Photo editor	Haley Johnston
Staff writers	30
Founded	1875
Language	English
Headquarters	5748 Memorial Union Orono, ME 04469-5748 United States
Circulation	4,500
Official website	MaineCampus.com

The Maine Campus is a twice-weekly newspaper produced by the students of the University of Maine in the United States. It covers university and Town of Orono, Maine 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 one of the oldest surviving papers in Maine. (Only The Bates Student, founded in 1873, and the Sun Journal, founded in 1847, are older).

Circulation and Distribution

Approximately 4,500 copies of The Campus are printed every issue. In recent years, The Campus published a 20-page full color edition on Mondays and a 16-page spot color edition on Thursdays. Now, with the new broadsheet format, the paper's length varies. In addition to the new size, the paper is printed in color every issue now and, depending on the length, the paper may be divided into separate sections.

The Campus has been online since the late 1990s (MaineCampus.com). On April Fool's Day The Campus runs a satirical edition named The Maine Crapus.

History and Organization

The cover of an early copy of The Maine Campus from 1912.

The Maine Campus has been around since 1875, and has at time been a weekly, daily and semiweekly paper. The Crucible was the first student newspaper at the University of Maine, established in 1873, which was replaced by the College Reporter.^[1] The Reporter became The Cadet, which was published monthly from 1855-1899. It then continued as The Campus, until changing its name to The Maine Campus on June 1, 1904.^[2] By the time it became The Maine Campus, it was publishing semimonthly,^[3] and by 1912 it was published weekly.^[4] It has since then also been known as The Daily Maine Campus. In 1990 it changed from a daily newspaper to a thrice-weekly newspaper,^[5] and has since become a semiweekly.

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 switched from tabloid format to broadsheet.

Staff

The Fall 2011 staff is as follows:
Michael Shepherd , Editor in Chief
Beth Kevit, News Editor
Jamison Cocklin, Assistant News Editor
Rob Stigile, Features Editor
Derrick Rossignol, Style Editor
Madelyn Kearns, Opinion Editor
Jesse Scardina, Sports Editor
Kristina King, Chief Copy Editor
Claire Carter, Chief Copy Editor
Haley Johnston, Photo Editor
Paul Perkins, Assistant Photo Editor
MacKenzie Rawcliffe, Design Editor/Production Manager

Business Manager - Olivia Fournier
Advertising Manager - Jordan Rowe
Marketing Manager - Christian Ouellette
Assistant Business Manager - Erin Baylis
Assistant Advertising Manager - Jordan Rowe

Copy Editors - Linette Mailhot, Kaylie Reese, Kayla Riley, Heather Pilling
Production Assistant - Katy Hein
News Staff Reporters - Chris Chase, Matthew Soucy
Opinion Staff Columnists -

Notable alumni

Stephen King wrote a weekly column for The Campus in the 1970s and also published short stories such as Slade in the newspaper. According to Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak:

After writing a few articles and essays for The Maine Campus, Steve decided to approach the editor, David Bright, about writing a weekly column. Bright gave him the go-ahead, and his first column appeared on February 20, 1969. Steve christened his column "The Garbage Truck" because, as he put it, "You never know what you're going to find in a garbage truck." From the beginning, Bright liked Steve's writing, but he wasn't overly fond of the nerve-racking style in which Steve cranked out his columns. AN hour before the deadline with no column in sight, Steve would show up at the paper's office. Bright, wringing his hands, would tell Steve how many column inches he needed to fill for that issue. Steve would then sit down at one of the big, hulking green typewriters in the newspaper office and bang out his copy, letter-perfect with no cross-outs, no corrections, no crumpled-up pieces of paper, and meet his deadline with moments to spare.

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King's columns were often controversial and were popular in the community, even garnering the attention of then-President Winthrop Libby, but neither his columns nor his short stories have ever been republished. According to Stephen King from A to Z:

(Slade) will never be issued because King considers it juvenilia and has steadfastly refused all attempts to bring it back into print, to the point of having his lawyer write a litigious letter when The Maine Campus considered reprinting it, along with King's nonfiction columns, in a book for fund-raising purposes.

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References

1. ^ Wright, Debra; Bob Briggs (1999). University of Maine. Arcadia Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 0738501751, 9780738501758. http://books.google.com/books?id=h6jzkJNQx1cC&pg=PA119&dq=%22The+Maine+Campus%22&ei=yl-CSuGbN46CyQSB9_ThCg#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Maine%20Campus%22&f=false. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
2. ^ Fernald, Merritt Caldwell (1916). History of the Maine state college and the University of Maine. University of Maine. p. 178. http://books.google.com/books?id=QP9CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA178&dq=%22The+Maine+Campus%22&ei=yl-CSuGbN46CyQSB9_ThCg#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Maine%20Campus%22&f=false. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
3. ^ ^{a b} State of, Maine (1905). Public documents of the state of maine; being the reports of the various public officers and departments. p. 31. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMNKAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA31&dq=%22The+Maine+Campus%22&ei=yl-CSuGbN46CyQSB9_ThCg#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Maine%20Campus%22&f=false. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
4. ^ "Digital archives of The Maine Campus". http://mainecampus.com/print-edition. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
5. ^ "Prism (yearbook): 1991". http://library.umaine.edu/yearbooks/content/1991/1991_61to90.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
6. ^ Rogak, Lisa (2009). Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King. Macmillan. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0312377320, 9780312377328. http://books.google.com/books?id=WenCIBUleDIC&pg=PA47&dq=%22The+Maine+Campus%22&ei=BOOCStSbFqnEzgSXv-XdCg#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Maine%20Campus%22&f=false. Retrieved 2009-08-12. 

External links

• MaineCampus.com