College newspapers and the future

Mark Potts, a former colleague at my college newspaper, makes a great point: Why aren't college papers abandoning print?

Today’s college students are the most wired—and wireless—generation in history. They’ve grown up with the Internet, eschewing print. It’s a cruel fact of the media business that young people simply do not read newspapers. Instead, they keep up with the world and their friends via mobile devices, podcasts, RSS, IMs and Twitter.

Mark suggests, and I agree, that something he calls "institutional sloth" is partly to blame.