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...should be able to understand a journal such as Nature or Science. Increased faculty and student interaction—one of the expressed purposes of the expansion of the Faculty—will be especially instrumental in improving teaching in the many areas of the sciences. Many large and textbook-driven introductory science courses fail to inspire, much less encourage, scientific research. However, a class such as the recently-instituted Molecular and Cell Biology 100, which emulates successful counterparts at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, allows students early on in their undergraduate careers to gain practical knowledge about...
...read with interest the letter titled “Bookstores, Not Publishers, To Blame For High Prices” (April 19). Textbook prices are high, but the selling price of a book begins with the publisher cost. The publisher sets the baseline cost to a retailer which includes a mark-up to cover the publisher’s costs of development, royalties, marketing, printing and a profit. The campus bookstore is a retailer and will take the publisher’s cost and add a mark-up that hopefully covers the store’s costs of ordering, receiving, selling...
...agree that textbook prices are high, but the blame for high prices is unfairly placed on the bookstores. All the players in the textbook distribution chain—publishers, professors, administrators and booksellers—have to work closer and more efficiently to ensure that students get the best value and price when purchasing textbooks...
Creasy and Pita quickly get over the initial awkwardness of their textbook odd-couple relationship when the lovably gruff guard notices he can help the cherubic, threatened swan’s swimming technique. Washington, meanwhile, channels his forceful yet charismatic Remember The Titans performance, berating the girl until she successfully stops flinching from the sound of the race’s starting shot. Surprisingly, Scott lavishes a substantial chunk of time on the astonishingly cute friendship—a decision which makes the audience actually care when Pita is kidnapped during a shootout with unknown assailants...
...first, or as representatives of our nation, endowed with obligations to contribute to student life. The answer lies somewhere in the middle. I believe that we can learn as much from our peers—from their particular circumstances in life—as we can learn from any textbook. Conversely, we should voluntarily feel like contributing our circumstances to the vast library that is the student community. And a failure to do so should be taken personally...