Supporters of CSM’s newspaper are still holding out hope that it will come back since the student-run newspaper has been cancelled Aug. 14 of this year.

As of the 2012-2013 academic year, the San Matean was a First Amendment student run-publication and had been running since 1928, has gone on hiatus for an undisclosed time.

The journalism program that was supporting the newspaper which had combined with the Digital Media in early 2009 has since Aug. 14, 2012 been canceled. Now the journalism program has been reduced from four journalism specific classes to one. The reason the journalism classes were canceled was due to an ongoing low enrollment in the classes.

In an interview Beverly Madden, director of development and marketing at CSM said this about the journalism program.

“We are continuing to evaluate their options to help support the students” said Madden.

The journalism classes could not keep up with that requirement; low enrollment is nothing new to the journalism program at CSM as the program merged with the Digital Media program in 2009 for that exact reason.

Before the paper was put on hiatus, the current students and alumni who had been on the San Matean staff were fighting to keep it alive. The former alumni wrote a letter to the editor in The Daily Journal showing their grief over the cancellation of the classes that were supporting the San Matean.

Another former member of the staff had started a petition; with the purpose of showing officials that people actually cared about the San Matean and wanted to see it live on. The petition had gained upwards of 200 signatures

The most recent staff however was busy finding ways to bring money in for the journalism program. The staff did find ways to circumvent some of the journalism programs cost through a program called Adcamp. According to the Adcamp website, it is “a service focused on generating revenue for college campuses by placing elegant kiosks and digital signage displays in highly populated areas at no cost.”

Even though this program would generate some revenue for the school, it seems the staff’s proposal was ignored as the journalism program was later cut. Ed Remitz who was had been an adviser to the paper since 1989, and an instructor at CSM for the same time; has since the cut to the classes departed from CSM.

Even though Skyline’s journalism program is in good shape, CSM’s journalism program being closed down should still serve as a cautionary tale to all Skyline staff and students.