Letter to the editor

Dorm residents should think before voting
While members of the On Campus Housing Council have differing
opinions regarding the Collegiate Readership Program, we decided to
let residents vote on the issue because either forcing the program
on them or denying them a chance to vote on it would be unfair.

OCHC has also offered an unbiased assessment of the
program’s merits and flaws. The Daily Bruin editorial,
“Dorm tenants should reject corporate media” (Feb. 27),
highlighted the program’s disadvantages, stating the
“number of papers on the stands would be smaller than the
number of people living in the dorms” without mentioning the
program would supply more papers to meet demand. The editorial also
suggested the program would fiscally harm the Daily Bruin, due to
the competition for advertisements, without noting the higher costs
of advertising in a national paper. The benefits of the Collegiate
Readership Program are significant, namely, the convenient delivery
of The New York Times and USA Today newspapers Monday through
Friday with no cost at pick-up.

Also significant are the program’s negative elements,
among them, the $3-per-quarter student fee increase for all
on-campus residents ““ requiring those who choose not to read
the papers to subsidize those who do. Whether residents choose to
focus on the positives or negatives of the program has yet to be
seen.

Andy Green Member, OCHC