A current Editorial Board roster can be found at: https://medium.com/colby-echo/about The Colby Echo is published every Wednesday that the College is in session, with 1,300 copies printed each week.

The Colby Echo is also distributed to several businesses in Waterville, including Jokas’ Discount Beverages, Jorgenson’s Café and the Railroad Square Cinema.

Colby had nothing of the sort, except the yearly Oracle.” The paper, then a monthly publication, was designed to serve as “an Echo of the ideas, views and opinions of the students; a conductor to dissipate the pent-up electricity of college intellect, without any disastrous explosion.

After listening to former President William Taft speak at the Waterville Opera House in 1917, editors were so taken by Taft’s “message of patriotism and warnings of an inevitable war” that they “promptly urged the formation of a campus military company.”[5] Joseph Coburn Smith ’24 “first proposed that the College adopt the white mule as its rather odd mascot,” while serving as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief.

Professors Galen Eustis and Curtis Morrow called for his ‘suppression or expulsion.’ However, Frank Johnson, then the president of the College, explained to Gammon that ‘free speech and free press are as much a Colby tradition as a Constitutional guarantee.’”[7] During the mid-twentieth century, “responding to criticism that students were afraid to speak out, the newspaper created an ‘open-forum’ column and invited readers to prove critics wrong.”[8] Following the Watergate scandal, “the Echo joined eighty-four other college newspapers in calling for Nixon’s impeachment.