During the 1990s, "The Carillon" was maintained by a dedicated group of writers and editors who believed in the newspaper’s founding socialist principle of governance by a collective of contributors, and the importance of freedom of the press. Throughout this period, contributors felt undue pressure to be the mouthpiece of the University of Regina Students' Union. The Students’ Union’s increasingly heavy-handed direction of “The Carillon”, coupled with financial mismanagement by previous Carillon editorial staff, caused conflict at weekly meetings, and threats to shut the paper down. In the summer of 1998, “The Carillon” decided to finally get out from under the yoke of URSU (University of Regina Students’ Union) and sought autonomy under the Saskatchewan Non-Profit Corporations Act, assisted in these efforts with help from its sister paper, the University of Manitoba’s “The Manitoban” (who had recently undergone the same process), both under the umbrella of the Canadian University Press. The effort was successful, allowing the paper to operate independently, without editorial interference from URSU, and under its own financial operations. Notable “Carillon” alumni from the ‘90s include Tanya Birkbeck, Merelda Fiddler, Bonnie Allen, and Jen Quesnel, all journalists on air with CBC Radio.