The Maine Campus

The October 19, 2009, front page of The Maine Campus
Editor-in-chief	Allyson Eslin
News editor	Haley Sylvester
Opinion editor	Sarah Allisot
Sports editor	Spencer Bergholtz
Photo editor	Maggie Gautrau
Staff writers	30
Founded	1875
Language	English
Headquarters	5748 Memorial Union Orono, Maine 04469-5748 United States
Circulation	1,500
Website	MaineCampus.com

The Maine Campus is a weekly newspaper produced by the students of the University of Maine in the United States. It covers university and Town of Orono events, and has four sections: News, Opinion, Culture 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 Bowdoin Orient, founded in 1871, The Bates Student, founded in 1873, and the Sun Journal, founded in 1847, are older.

Approximately 2,500 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 its length, may be divided into separate sections.

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

The Maine Campus has existed since 1875, and has at various times 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.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. By the time it became The Maine Campus, it was publishing semimonthly, and by 1912 it was published weekly. It became The Daily Maine Campus (Monday through Friday) in 1979 under editor Dan Warren. It remained a daily newspaper, peaking at 5,000 circulation through the 1980s, under editors Tammy Eaves, Steve McGrath, Stephen Olver and Ernie Clark. In 1990 it changed from a daily newspaper to a thrice-weekly newspaper, and has since become weekly.

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. However, the paper has, on several occasions, required financial assistance and bailout from the student government (notably in 2002-2003). The Campus is partially funded through the communications fee, and partially through ad sales. The paper is editorially independent of the university.