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In yet the latest sign that newspapers are slowly going the way of the buffalo, George Washington University has put an end to its Collegiate Readership Program, in which students got free daily delivery of the The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. The program — which the Hatchet reports had been saved from the chopping block by students in both 2007 and 2008 — finally fell victim to decreased interest and students’ overwhelming desire to know what was going on instantaneously.

Those must be the reasons: it’s not like the cost to the school was too burdensome. It cost the university $52,000 per year to provide the paper subscriptions to students, which is $4,625 less than it costs for an undergraduate to take one year’s worth of classes at the school.