Three years we’ve enjoyed free newspapers – and now it’s over. Just like the hard-drinking honky-tonker who awakes one morning to an empty bed, this semester we must awake to empty kiosks.
Please come back, darlin! We'll treat you right this time! (photo credit: The Longwood Hole)
No longer can we fall asleep with a paper in our arms. If we want it now, we’ll have to go to the Internet. Or pay money.
According to one distributor,”I still deliver the paid subscriptions, but you can’t get a free paper on campus anymore. Some people are upset but not enough to actually do anything about it.”
After all the times we swore we’d never pay money for it!
A source within the SGA stated that the fifteen thousand dollars spent on the Collegiate Readership Program was the lowest from any participating school in Virginia. The SGA voted to use the money previously spent on the CRP to resurrect The Virginian, the Longwood University yearbook.
We’ll be taking a closer look at The Virginian, which looks to be the exact opposite of free: it will be sold to students for thirty dollars.
Yeah. We’ll be listening to this song all weekend.
UPDATE (9/21/09) — Things aren’t looking good for free news.
[...] know, if every student threw in three dollars, we’d almost have enough money to buy back the Collegiate Readership Program. Or a pony. [...]