Eventually I was big enough to hold the paper in my hands, sit at the breakfast table, and read the Times from back to front (the sports pages were in the second section). When my father came home from work I also recall running to say hello and taking the evening newspaper from him. As a college student my roommate and I subscribed to the Boston Globe. In the Peace Corps reading the International Herald Tribune was an occasional splurge one volunteer passed along to the next. Who cared if the news was a week old? A newspaper in English was a welcome sight!

Granted, I have lived in locations where newspapers have not always been the best. At Penn State, the Centre Daily Times put out a story one day with the heading something akin to "Czechoslovakia in revolt! Bucharest surrounded!" only to publish a clarification the next day that it was Prague, not Bucharest, that had been surrounded. The Boulder Daily Camera and the Santa Fe New Mexican are no longer hefty enough to use to start a fire in the fireplace, much less read for information. And the Los Angeles Times cannot be given away at USC's Fitness Center, where free copies wait forlornly for student readers.

Many of us have lamented the decline of newspapers and the movement toward getting our news online. I know we say the news is less reliable, more sensational, but there is also a difference between reading a paper that connects many of us to similar pasts, like those I describe above, and reading news from the Internet. But as a young friend said to me recently, "Get over it already!"

None of us could have predicted five years ago that the Los Angeles Times will be out of business three years from today, but it's a reasonable guess. The Daily Camera, the New Mexican, and even the Boston Globe seem on life support and may not last three years. I raise all of this about print and paper because this is the last issue of the Navigator. We started this newsletter about a decade ago and have covered issues of concern to the academy and under investigation by CHEPA— governance, decisionmaking, access to college, globalization, and various topics pertaining to financial aid. In our final issue, Adrianna Kezar has edited the newsletter and talks about a project she has undertaken on college students and finance.