My Fellow PowerBook-philes,
Dude! Where does your daughter go to school??? Holy cow. Is this
college or high school? America? Europe? Somewhere else?
I hope it is a private school -- we'd be all over a public school doing
this in my state. They'd have so many lawsuits from so many corners
before they even thought of it ... well...
And as for the fascism of Universities ... have not really experienced
that myself. My State's flagship University is not too shabby on that
front. Not so hot at some others, though. Like having a falling out
with its Alumni fund-raising foundation.... Oops.
Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon
P.S. My father is a Professor at one of the larger public Us and he
does quite a bit more than research. Your cousin is lucky. Wait till
he gets picked to be head of a department or some other
admin+teaching+research-or-you-lose-your-tenure position. Ah the state
of Academia! :-)
Tom Ethen wrote:
Actually they allow my daughter to have the incredible opportunity of
purchasing the two year old laptop from the school after she has already
paid $2000 for a $799 computer at $500 per semester. They she gets a new one
and the cycle starts over.
They also ban un-approved laptops in the classroom and only their computers
may be used.
My cousin is a full professor at the main University in my state and he only
teaches two hours each week, while the rest of his time is spent doing
research, so that may be where some of the excess cash is being used.
Tom
On 6/11/05 6:41 PM, "themacuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As well as this, some make the students give them back once they have
bought them when they graduate...
Some even go as far as banning non-approved laptops (often anything
except theirs) for fear of "security issues and viruses"...
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