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From the editor: Notice anything new?

Posted on Sept. 10, 2009, at 12:01 a.m.

If you’re a returning reader, you might have noticed some changes to the newspaper you’re reading.

If you read the paper in print the first change is probably immediately apparent: the size and design of the newspaper. For a number of reasons, we have switched our printer from VillageNet Media in Rockland to the Brunswick Times Record. At the same time, in order to increase space in the newspaper and offer a better-looking product, we switched from our previous tabloid format to a more traditional broadsheet format.

Besides an increase in printing quality, the new printer will allow us to distribute newspapers earlier. Look for your paper as early as 8 a.m. in some parts of campus.

We’ve rolled out a new design in tandem with the new format. It’s not drastically different, and you might have seen us test it out at the end of last year, but we hope it will prove more modern and easier to read than the older design.

If you turn to the opinion section, you’ll see several new features as well. First, we will now offer two editorial cartoons each issue. Our staff cartoonists will continue to provide local editorial cartoons, but they will be supplemented by national editorial cartoons provided by King Features.

In addition, we will now have two weekly columnists. Tyler Francke and Michael Shepherd will provide us with insightful commentary with one column each every week.

We’ve made a few changes to our Web site. We moved off the College Media Network and now host our site on our own server using WordPress. The new site will provide us much more control, and we hope we can publish more multimedia this year. The new site also features classified advertisements at classifieds.mainecampus.com and a new feature called Campus Currents that we hope will serve as a knowledge base in the future for university-related topics. In addition, you can sign up to receive any of several e-mail newsletters. The site is still located at mainecampus.com.

We hope you enjoy the new changes, but we want to hear from you either way. You can call us at 581-1273, e-mail info@mainecampus.com or stop by our offices in 131 Memorial Union.

Best,

William P. Davis

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