Circulation and distribution
Approximately 1,500 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. OnHistory and organization
''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. 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, news editor, Web editor, sports editor, production manager, style editor, photography editor, opinion editor, and 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 toNotable alumni
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 manyKing'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'':column inch A column inch was the standard measurement of the amount of content in published works that use multiple columns per page. A column inch is a unit of space one column wide by high. A newspaper page Newspaper pages are laid out on a grid that con ...es 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.
( '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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