It covers university and Town of Orono events, and has four sections: News, Opinion, Culture and Sports.

In addition to the new size, the paper is printed in color every issue now and, depending on its length, may be divided into separate sections.

[1] On April Fool's Day the Campus runs a satirical edition named The Maine Crapus.

The Crucible was the first student newspaper at the University of Maine, established in 1873, which was replaced by the College Reporter.

It remained a daily newspaper, peaking at 5,000 circulation through the 1980s, under editors Tammy Eaves, Steve McGrath, Stephen Olver and Ernie Clark.

Stephen King wrote a weekly column for the Campus in the 1970s and also published short stories such as Slade in the newspaper.

Steve would then sit down at one of the big, hulking green typewriters in the newspaper office and bang out his copy, letter-perfect with no cross-outs, no corrections, no crumpled-up pieces of paper, and meet his deadline with moments to spare.King's columns were often controversial and were popular in the community, even garnering the attention of then-President Winthrop Libby, but neither his columns nor his short stories have ever been republished.