The Daily Campus

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The Daily Campus
Type	Daily student newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner
Publisher	Willimantic Chronicle
Editor	Jon Sierakowski
Founded	1896
Headquarters	11 Dog Lane Storrs, CT 06269

Website: http://www.dailycampus.com

The Daily Campus, founded in 1896, is the student-run newspaper at the University of Connecticut that has a circulation run of 10,000 copies weekdays during the school year and twice during the summer. Since its creation, the newspaper has undergone several name changes. It began publishing five days a week during the academic year in 1952 and has offices based out of the Daily Campus building at 11 Dog Lane in Storrs, Connecticut.

The newspaper features four main sections: News, Commentary, Focus and Sports. The News department staffs upwards of 50 students who actively scout the campus for the latest news. The Commentary section, which features columnists as well as the Letters to the Editor, is the home of the Husky Talk feature and the Instant Daily, one of the more revolutionary pieces of interaction in all of print media where readers, usually students, interact with the department by AOL Instant Messenger. The Focus department covers performances, entertainment and style on campus, while the Sports department, which staffs 15 writers, is credentialed to all on-campus and several off-campus UConn sporting events. The Daily Campus also has a Comics department, featuring comics drawn entirely by students.

Students lay out the newspaper every Sunday through Thursday using the program Adobe InDesign and can take anywhere from four to eight hours nightly to lay out the 10-18 pages of each issue.

The newspaper itself has been in the news often in recent years, with an editorial column calling for the resignation of UConn President Philip E. Austin in 2005 after construction problems arose in the building of various on-campus structures as part of the state of Connecticut's UCONN 2000 and 21st Century UConn projects. The building was also the site of the theft of computer equipment in August 2005, just days before the beginning of publication for the new school year.

[edit] Controversies

The Daily Campus has been involved in a number of controversies in recent years.

'2000 -- Controversial David Horowitz full-page advertisement calling slave reparations "racist" runs in The Daily Campus and a number of other college newspapers. Students hold a protest outside the newspaper's offices, and argue to the university administration that they oppose having the $14 mandatory fee to fund the newspaper.
'2003 -- About 9,000 copies of The Daily Campus are stolen from locations around campus and the newspaper's loading dock one day after a column was printed that criticized college cultural centers as being exclusionary. Two of the suspects were identified, but The Daily Campus did not press charges.
'2005 -- The Daily Campus building is broken into and computer equipment worth approximately $30,000 is stolen. No arrests were ever made.