If the University isn't using Open Office already, then it's time they start (or look at another, more forward thinking, university.) Most of the universities around here are standardizing on Open Office (and I'm in Canada, which is about five years behind the US.)
Are you seriously advocating that a university's document processing software is valid decision criteria for selection of a school to obtain a degree? There are about 14,000 other criteria sets that are far more important than something so minor as that.
Greg
