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...last straw. The most expensive of these packets of photocopies, topping off at over $150, seems downright extortionary. But despite appearances, Harvard officials insist that Harvard doesn’t skim anything off the top of its burgeoning sourcebook business. “No profit is made from the coursepacks, and both the copying and finishing costs are minimal,” says Harvard Printing and Publishing Services (HPPS) CoursePack Coordinator Geraldine Barney...
...there are few savings to be reaped by putting coursepacks online. Companies do exist with inventories of thousands of copyright-cleared articles that are free if included in an online coursepack, but any article a professor wanted to use outside of those stockpiles would still accrue copyright fees. Students would have to pay for access to such Internet-based coursepacks, and only a tiny fraction of the cost of printed sourcebooks would be eliminated by saving on physical copying and distribution...
...course, there is no redemption for reading Page Six rather than pages 210-354 in my coursepack, nor is there any worldly impact in knowing that someone’s rear end is worth twenty times the value of my college education (although, listening to Ben Affleck soliloquize on how Hollywood should take a stand on the Middle East, almost persuaded me otherwise), but somehow, finally standing in front of someone who seems only to exist in the unreal fantastic universe behind a movie screen seems a kind of just atonement...
...Ostensible professor clearly an escaping criminal who beat up real professor; buff, bearded, heavily-tattooed “Helen Vendler” threatens students in front row with shiv-like sharpened coursepack when they refuse to hand over “smokes?...
...fellow for Ulrich’s Historical Study B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America,” served tea in his section about the Boston Tea Party, but he doesn’t think that sipping tea will transmit history like a coursepack can. “I think reenactments have a place as a national or cultural ritual, yet they possess immense limitations as teaching tools,” he says...