Imprint

Imprint is a publication created by Imprint Publications, Waterloo and is the official student newspaper of the University of Waterloo. It overtook the previous student newspaper, The Chevron.

History
In the spring of 1978, the UW Journalism Club, made up of former Chevron staffers and other students, started its own weekly publication called Imprint, funded solely by advertising. After winning the support of the students in a March 1979 referendum (including Engineering students, who voted over 10-1 in favour of recognizing the newspaper and establishing a refundable fee), Imprint was installed as the official student newspaper of the University of Waterloo.

Since its modest beginnings as an independent newspaper published by a Federation of Students club, Imprint has now become an award-winning newspaper with a circulation of 11,000 in Kitchener-Waterloo and a six-figure operating budget.

Printing
Imprint prints weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and bi-weekly during the spring semester. Imprint publishes 30 issues a year and is paid for mostly by advertising, but is also supplemented with a $3.30 refundable fee paid per semester by students enrolled at the university.

Mission statement
Imprint has two equally important and complementary missions:
 * 1) To publish a newspaper that provides the University of Waterloo community with information, entertainment and a forum for the discussion of issues that affect the community; and
 * 2) To provide University of Waterloo students with the opportunity to learn and gain practical experience in an open and rewarding journalistic environment.