Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Books, books, books
Books are an expensive, albeit necessary, evil of college. I can't remember a semester I didn't shell out over $500 for textbooks that I hardly ever cracked open until the week before finals. The Sagebrush editorialized yesterday about the high cost of books and the importance of professors to turn in orders early to keep costs as low as possible.
What the Sagebrush didn't talk about is ASUN's complete neglect of a law the Senate passed a year ago to help mitigate the outrageous cost of textbooks.
Associated Students Statutes at Large Volume 75--Unofficial
The Textbook Swap Program Act of 2008, which the Senate enacted over the President's veto, requires ASUN to create a textbook swap system on its website to allow individual parties to find one another so they may make private arrangements for the swapping of books.
I just searched the ASUN website and I can't find a single thing about textbook swapping.
It's a program that could save students some serious dough, made more important in these down economic times, yet all the students get is more contempt for the law as legitimately passed by the students' representatives.
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I guess ASUN and Eli Reilly are more concerned with Prophet. Confirms my suspicions a bit the Eli is on strings.
ReplyDeleteProfit rather.
ReplyDeleteIt technically spanned two Presidents--Ragsdale and Reilly. Ragsdale expressed her intent at the end of her term to never direct that the program be implemented. Reilly simply carried on in his predecessor's wake.
ReplyDeleteWhy would undergraduate students spite their fellow constituents like that? Wow.
ReplyDeleteBecause if it wasn't their idea, it must not be a good idea.
ReplyDeletePresident Ragsdale's veto message on the bill of the 75th Senate Session.
ReplyDeleteThat response was pretty weak. Outrageous, but then again, I'm used to it.
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