“And so I ended up getting quoted as, I think she calls me, the ‘lone dissenter.’”The exact quote from the Atlantic piece frames UChicago students as a foil to other elite college students. And that, coupled with the eternally predicted end of the book, means that we infer that students don’t read books anymore.”Johns added that he stands by what he said, even if it was off-the-cuff. Volpp explained that, due to the amount of reading she is assigned, the amount of reading she does for fun has wavered. Of these, 2,478 checkouts were by UChicago students, with 48 percent by undergraduates. The checkout data seems to suggest that UChicago students still make time for books.