WE ASKED A CROSS-SECTION OF STUDENTS: WHERE DO YOU TURN FOR NATIONAL NEWS?

Almost half cited The New York Times as their primary source or as one of several media they employ. Time magazine was a distant second. Tied for third were cable television news programs such as CNN, the Boston Globe, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, radio and television in general, and the Internet each got a couple of mentions. Quite a few listed several sources: "Word of mouth, NY Times, CNN," e-mailed Erin Gaffney '95. Two students mentioned none. And two others one from Pakistan, the other from the Middle East asked whose national news we were talking about. Point taken.

around in the dining halls." There was one student who relies on her parents for news via e-mail, no less and another who reads "newspapers floating

Anne Harrington '98 confessed she let her subscription to The Times run out and at the moment was "rather uninformed about national or international news." In answer to our query about where he gets his national news, Trevor Bardell '98 took

Mac in hand and replied: "I don't."

Students look for signs in the Times.