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The Daily Campus,founded in 1896,is a student-run newspaper at the University of Connecticut that has a circulation run of 8,000 copies weekdays during the school year and twice during the summer. The Daily Campus has the largest circulation of any college paper in Connecticut and the third-largest in New England,behind The Daily Collegian (UMass) and The Harvard Crimson (Harvard University). Since its creation,the newspaper has undergone several name changes,starting as The Lookout,a monthly,when it published its first issue in May 1896. The name was changed to The Connecticut Campus in 1915,followed by The Connecticut Daily Campus,and then finally just The Daily Campus in 1984. It began publishing five days a week during the academic year in 1952 and became a morning paper in 1955.