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...Textbook, Amen...
...freeze on UC funds in response to the UC’s intransigence, there is a silver lining. Now that the UC has proven willing to act in open defiance of the administration, surely we can expect it to mobilize with the same force to campaign for lower textbook costs for low-income students or to persuade the University to adopt more socially responsible investment policies. Perhaps in the future, the UC will save its political capital for campus advocacy that matters rather than petty fights over students’ rights to get drunk for free...
...dropped to fourth place, previously tied for second with Princeton. The victory also snapped Cornell’s three-game winning streak. The Big Red held two one-goal leads during the 71 minutes of play but was finally put to rest after a textbook penalty corner executed by Harvard’s co-captains. The game-winning goal was assisted by a push from sophomore Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon to co-captain Jana Berglund, who stopped and set the ball for the shot by fellow co-captain Devon Shapiro. “It’s exciting...
...colorful 249-page soft-cover will do is give anyone with a hankering to understand, for example, why aspirin dulls pain but morphine does it much better, some basic familiarity with the scientific answer.For the most part, the book keeps close to the boundary separating reference books, textbooks, and anecdotal history. Its content is broken into six parts, one of which is an introduction designed to provide an understanding of chemistry jargon to those whose last encounter with the subject came before their first high school date. The remaining five sections are broken down further by types of disease, spanning...
...Massachusetts Joint Committee on Higher Education is set to hear testimony from students, faculty, and student advocates tomorrow on a bill that aims to reduce textbook prices across the state. The legislation, House Bill 1200—known as the Affordable Textbooks Bill—would require publishers selling textbooks to universities to disclose wholesale prices, a list of all of their products, and an estimated length of time that they expect to keep the product on the market. In addition, the bill would require bundled books to be made available individually. “It’s good...