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Interestingly, I was at a dinner of Daily alums in Pasadena after the Rose Bowl, and one of them had brought along his son, at the time a Stanford freshman. I mentioned that when I was a student, if you walked into a dining hall for breakfast, something on the order of two-thirds to three-fourths of the people would be looking at that morning's Daily. He looked skeptical and then, remembering where he was, a little pitying. "It's, um, not really like that anymore," he replied.

It wasn't really like that in the mid-80s either.
The Daily was primarily for doing the crossword puzzle in the back of class and snickering over the latest Daily-troversy in the letters section.

But, um, it must have just been a lull.

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Interestingly, I was at a dinner of Daily alums in Pasadena after the Rose Bowl, and one of them had brought along his son, at the time a Stanford freshman. I mentioned that when I was a student, if you walked into a dining hall for breakfast, something on the order of two-thirds to three-fourths of the people would be looking at that morning's Daily. He looked skeptical and then, remembering where he was, a little pitying. "It's, um, not really like that anymore," he replied.

It wasn't really like that in the mid-80s either.
The Daily was primarily for doing the crossword puzzle in the back of class and snickering over the latest Daily-troversy in the letters section.

But, um, it must have just been a lull.