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To: redshawk

Amen. We were continually screwed in college back in the 70s. They hated letting us buy used textbooks. So, revise a page or two in the book and require us to buy the new one for the class. That happened a lot.

Another little trick that they used to pull was requiring us to buy a brand new book and then when we got the class they only wanted to reference a small portion of the book. Maybe one chapter was all we were required to read out of the book.

I had a statistics class in my junior year and we were required to use the textbook that coincidentally one of the faculty members had written. It was an open joke because with the book, term after term you were given about 20 Xerox pages correcting errors in the book on the first day of class.

I found it quite telling that the professor who wrote the book and probably the whole department were not in the least bit chagrined.


10 posted on 03/09/2020 10:54:49 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“Maybe one chapter was all we were required to read out of the book.”


There was an English prof at my college that required 13 books for his class. Well, it’s an English class, so there’ll be a lot of reading involved (this was back in the 60s when university students were expected to be able to read). Oddly though, all 13 books were written by the professor...


16 posted on 03/09/2020 12:33:13 PM PDT by hanamizu
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