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After sharing the stage with Rep. Mike Michaud, Gov. John Baldacci, UMaine President Kennedy and University of Maine System Chancellor Pattenaude at the University of Maine’s Advanced Engineered Composite Center ceremony (see page 1), Sen. Collins was scheduled to participate in an interview with representatives of two campus media outlets.
As members of The Maine Campus and “Mobile Maine News” waited for the senator, Joe Carr of University Relations let them know the senator had to leave, and she told him she would “make it up to them” at a later date.
During last year’s campaign season, The Maine Campus contacted the campaign offices for both the House and Senate candidates. Reps. Tom Allen and Mike Michaud both responded, as did candidate John Frary. Sen. Collins never replied (See editorial, Oct. 27, 2009).
We think it would behoove Sen. Collins to take student media more seriously. She has now missed two opportunities to engage with the students of Maine’s flagship university, which serves the largest student body in the state she represents – not to mention students who elected Collins to her third term in the Senate.
We hope Collins was serious when she said she would make it up to student media, and we invite her to contact us whenever she is ready.
Bangor Daily News