December 10, 1999
Free Newspapers Prompt Boom in Campus Readership
But competition from 'USA Today' and 'The New York Times' may threaten student papers
It's not clear whether they're too poor, too lazy, or too busy, but college students aren't reading newspapers the way they once did. So Pennsylvania State University has made it easier for them.
Two years ago, its president, Graham B. Spanier, arranged to stock the dormitories at all nine residential campuses with open-distribution racks carrying The New York Times,
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