For the first time in 158 years, Indiana University will no longer print the Indiana Daily Student.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky announced Tuesday night that campus leadership decided to end print editions starting this week. The word came hours after he fired Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush.

After IU paid off nearly $1 million in debt for the IDS last year, it created a Student Media Plan that ended weekly printing to curb its deficit (original proposal below). The IDS was still permitted to publish special themed editions, such as one planned this Friday on homecoming.

Rodenbush told editors in an Oct. 7 email that administrators expected “that edition should contain nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front pa

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