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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Textbook rebels
Marketplace: "There's a revolution brewing on college campuses and it might just lower the cost of an all-nighter. Sean Cole reports."
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
This is something that we don't have to deal with to the same extent in Drama at CMU. At most we have to buy a dozen plays and maybe the drafting book. You can usually get the plays for under $4 on Amazon.com marketplaces (which is a fabulous resource). In the SOD there is a pretty good chance of getting a computer print out from a prof too, which is nice. The place that we do keep pouring our money down the hole is definitely art supplies. "They want how much for this teensy tiny tube of paint?!" I suppose that this is all just a part of going to get a higher education.
As an ex-pharm major, I have dropped a pretty penny at the ONU book store. I spent $800 my first quarter at ONU. Those books had the cd's and web help as well. I never used any of that stuff... NO ONE did! make textbooks paper back. Make the profs buy the cds and web access. I have been spoiled since I have been in drama, but this semester I have spent $100 on MAM books. I have no problem spending money on the books that I will keep (like my MAM books) but if I tally up all the bones I have spent on stupid workbooks for math or CAD classes... it makes me want to cry. I have no problem sharing books and getting them off-line, but I feel we pay enough to get an education that the profs and admin of colleges should realize that a reading list of 5 books is extreme. Help a student out and post them on blackboard... or better yet copy the five chapters that you will use out of the book and hand it out in class.
2 comments:
This is something that we don't have to deal with to the same extent in Drama at CMU. At most we have to buy a dozen plays and maybe the drafting book. You can usually get the plays for under $4 on Amazon.com marketplaces (which is a fabulous resource). In the SOD there is a pretty good chance of getting a computer print out from a prof too, which is nice. The place that we do keep pouring our money down the hole is definitely art supplies. "They want how much for this teensy tiny tube of paint?!" I suppose that this is all just a part of going to get a higher education.
- Jen Owen
As an ex-pharm major, I have dropped a pretty penny at the ONU book store. I spent $800 my first quarter at ONU. Those books had the cd's and web help as well. I never used any of that stuff... NO ONE did! make textbooks paper back. Make the profs buy the cds and web access. I have been spoiled since I have been in drama, but this semester I have spent $100 on MAM books. I have no problem spending money on the books that I will keep (like my MAM books) but if I tally up all the bones I have spent on stupid workbooks for math or CAD classes... it makes me want to cry. I have no problem sharing books and getting them off-line, but I feel we pay enough to get an education that the profs and admin of colleges should realize that a reading list of 5 books is extreme. Help a student out and post them on blackboard... or better yet copy the five chapters that you will use out of the book and hand it out in class.
- Julie
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