In 2012, you’d probably be hard-pressed to find five Auburn students who have a subscription to any newspaper, let alone the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (no offense).
But back in 1979, an Auburn student apparently wasn’t an Auburn student without one—or at least not a well-equipped Auburn student.
“Just come by our booth at the student union…”
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Yep in the old days before computers, internet or even TV sets in student rooms, three newspapers delivered on campus…B’ham, MA and Ledger Enquirer. Students would sit around in the Student Union browsing the various newspapers and having a cup of 10cent coffee between classes.
Hey Rob — I think it was Rob — you left a comment, that was somehow accidentally moderated into oblivion. Sorry about that. Feel free to try again.
The OA News sold more than the others back then, though it was on its way downhill by 1979.
For years, there were two daily Columbus newspapers from the same publisher: the Enquirer in the morning, the Ledger in the afternoon. You had to buy a subscription for each paper.They published only an Enquirer on Saturday morning and a combined Ledger-Enquirer on Sunday morning. In the late 1980′s the two finally merged for good into a morning daily called the Ledger-Enquirer.