Maine Campus

Posted on April 04, 2001, at 12:00 a.m.

It is absolutely ridiculous to think that the University of Maine, the state’s flagship university, is going to be without a campus paper soon. Unfortunately, as most of you know, this is what may happen if something isn’t done to help out The Maine Campus. No matter what your opinion of the paper, it is easy to find and helpful for students looking to find out what is going on during the week. Some people might think, “Oh big deal … we’ll just look up everything on FirstClass from now on.” But did you ever stop to think that over half the people that go to UMaine live off campus and can’t just hop on the network as easily as students on campus? I can think of numerous people who would rather grab a paper and read it later then try to search for everything on FirstClass during their lunch break. Plus, on FirstClass you don’t get the stories or reviews about shows and performers, you don’t get to see the different opinions of students about what is happening on campus and you don’t get the bad comic strips (okay, so maybe that’s a plus).

The point is, do any of you care enough to at least attempt to save this paper? I propose that another $3 gets added to every student’s comprehensive fee to go toward the budget of The Maine Campus. That would be an additional $30,000+ to whatever they get for a budget next fall. This seems reasonable to me. In the meantime, let’s try to put on some more fund-raisers and really get the word out. Get your groups involved; maybe we can put something together. If anyone is interested, please contact me over FirstClass.

Nathan Shea

DTAV

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