What Kind of Journalism Does Wesleyan Deserve?
Good news, everyone! Print newspapers are saved! At Wesleyan! For two years! An anonymous alum has donated $20,000 to maintain the flailing New York Times readership program for another two years. The number of daily copies distributed will be reduced from 700 to 400 and the WSA has asked professors—who receive a hefty discount for their home-delivered subscriptions to the Times—to abstain from taking copies. “Faculty subscription to the Times is almost cheaper than toilet paper,” assured the indefatigable Charles Lemert. “The thing that’s upsetting is that probably even with 400 [copies], there are so many left over at the end of the day.” Upsetting, eh? According to a WSA poll, the student body—or at least the part of the student body that participates in WSA elections—is actually quite down with the print Times. In a poll that accompanied last week’s elections, 75.4 percent of those surveyed said they read the Times and 49.3 percent claimed that they read it everyday. This is not ex
