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- From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,alt.books.technical
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:49:48 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) writes:
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- % Because of this (I suspect) there is no mechanism, as there is in
- % medicine, for the cost of expensive necessities to be shared by the
- % rest of society.
-
- Do we need this socialist drivel on sci.math? Look at the state of
- medicine in America and tell me whether you think it has benefitted
- from massive government intervention.
-
- % Many students can't buy even basic texts, others
- % sell them back. Students, as a consequence, are not only less
- % educated, but have not learned how to teach themselves, through
- % reading. Those who choose to devote their lives to advancing
- % knowledge in basic fields face the choice of purchasing books or food.
-
- Have they suddenly lost the ability to use the libraries?
-
- % Generations of Americans educated their children for a better life.
- % The fact that the educated go without luxuries, or sometimes food, is
- % not a fact that Americans will soon believe.
-
- The fact that undergrad and grad students can't afford luxuries is
- well known. The idea that some are going without food is ridiculous.
- Undergrad students, grad students and professors are already reaping
- the benefits of massive state and federal government subsidies of
- their education. Would you like to further increase the burden on the
- less well educated to pay for the life styles of the educated? That
- hardly seems fair. As a grad student myself, I have no sympathy for
- other grad students or undergrad students that whine about their
- living conditions. At least college students have a chance to make
- their lives better doing something they want to do. If the result is
- not improved living conditions, then some people should consider
- changing careers.
-
- Darrell R. Hougen
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