Campus Currents: The Dirigamus
After an overflowing budget and theft killed the University of Maine yearbook in 2004, it is making a triumphant return.
Within the next two weeks, Jostens, Inc. — a company that produces high school yearbooks and class …
Students who purchased the 2004 University of Maine Dirigamus finally received a one page sheet last week that contained the last two pages of the biographical section of the yearbook. The error, made by Taylor Publishing, was not discovered until after the books were shipped from the company, and was the final blunder on a list of reasons why Student Government has backed out of a three-year contract with Taylor.
If at first you don’t succeed…
Unfortunately, the University of Maine’s first yearbook since 1997 only lasted for one publication. This past week, students who had purchased their 2004 UMaine Yearbooks, Dirigamus, received a one-page sheet that included the last two pages of the biographical section.
The yearbook was denied funding for the upcoming school year on Tuesday night at the General Student Senate meeting. In the past month, the yearbook, Dirigamus, has asked for an additional $650 to cover this year’s budget.
At Tuesday’s meeting, senators discussed a requested $35,000 for next year’s yearbook budget.
With the semester drawing to a close, the University of Maine yearbook is steaming straight ahead, on schedule and on budget, according to Editor in Chief Jonathon White.
With $5,800 allotted to the project from Student Government, White has been compiling pictures, text and ads since the beginning of the year and is now sifting through the material to compile pages for the first publishing deadline.
The University of Maine class of 2004 may be able to leave its college years behind with more than student loans and a diploma. A proposal to re-establish the UMaine student yearbook, The Prism, went before the Student Senate last week and is awaiting final approval.
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