04-07-2012, 08:46 AM
I was on the Stanford campus a month ago or so and wondered whether or not students still read the daily. Back in the day it was my source of news and entertainment while waiting for a class to start, and was a gerat way to stay awake if the class was, well, boring.
I just can't imagine that today's students would see the Daily as quite so valuable. The UCB Daily must suffer from the same set of problems. And that is too bad because I would guess that for many in the media business their college press experience was an important foundation and proving ground.
However given UCB's sorry financial state it just seems unfair to layer on more mandatory student fees. I don't think the student fees should be required to subsidize baseball and softball and I would probably apply the same standard to newspapers, telegraphs, and landlines.
I just can't imagine that today's students would see the Daily as quite so valuable. The UCB Daily must suffer from the same set of problems. And that is too bad because I would guess that for many in the media business their college press experience was an important foundation and proving ground.
However given UCB's sorry financial state it just seems unfair to layer on more mandatory student fees. I don't think the student fees should be required to subsidize baseball and softball and I would probably apply the same standard to newspapers, telegraphs, and landlines.