University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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◦me ampus ! The Untverslty of Viamg-atOron» student newspaper since 1875 The first daily editors on Maine's campus — Dan Warren and Tammy Eves. They had to work just as hard as their staff to maintain a daily paper. t x 24

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•nr SRILINC Sailing is one of UMO's vorsity sports that has been overlooked for o long, long time. Years ago, Maine used to hove the best soil- ing team on the East Coast. Now the students try to race with be- aten up boots that are 15-20 years old. According to Charlie Komar, team coach and a sailor as well, the team got off to a slow start this season because they hod to repair the boats before they could begin practice. The eight, 12 foot fiberglass dinghys were supposed to hove been repaired during the summer by a work- study student but it wasn't done. Other schools start practice on Sept. 1 with o coach. The repair delays and lock of a coach put UMaine at an early disadvan- tage. Since the team has only enough money to cover travel- ling expenses, Komar volun- teered to coach. In his eyes the team has the potential to be ranked with the top ten sailing teams in the country. The 45 member team practices three hours a day, five days a week at Pushaw Lake. If the female half of the team could be a seperate unit, Komar feels they could be All-American. This win- ter the team will concentrate on raising enough money to refinish the boats. Komar and Dean Lucy have been working on on idea for a sailing course to increase sup- port and interest in the sailing team. Someday, Komar's vision of UMaine in the top ten may come true.

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Changing from a bi-weekly to a daily posed quite a challenge for this yeor's Maine Campus staff. Working for the paper became much more complicated with a larger staff, the need for more story ideas and the demands of getting enough advertising to pay for the newspaper. Daily deadlines, although sometimes missed, became the rule for stoff members. Also, the weekly call for 3 or 4 story ideas became a pain in the neck to- wards the end of the semester as news worthy events began to dry up. Late night production of the Campus became a regular oc- currence for the staff, ending with a midnight dash to get the paper to Bangor in time to be sent to Ellsworth for printing. Due to the large number of stories written, the staff become aquainted with many aspects of the ethics associated with jour- nalism. One such topic, that of whether or not journalism stu- dents working at a local paper should tip off the Campus to news affecting the University, be- came an emotional subject among staffers. Fundraisers for the Campus and other groups such as the Campus Cambodian Fund be- came a regular feature. A walk- a-thon raised several hundred dollars to keep the paper going. Also $3,600 was raised by the Campus and WMEB for Christ- mas m Cambodia. However, it wasn't all work, there are memories of a Christ- mas party at the Ad Managers' and kegs on the night of each semester's joke issue, it was all part of Doing it Daily. 25