Chris- Didn't David Meyers give APS a gift of 1 million dollars?
see: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm? id=1546 Did he win it in the lottery or was some of that money from textbook sales? -Don. Don Allen Dept. of Psychology Langara College 100 W. 49th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5Y 2Z6 Phone: 604-323-5871 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher D. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:13 am Subject: [tips] Obama thinks textbook writers are scammers To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > Check out the following item from today's Inside Higher Ed: > > If Barack Obama is elected president, students upset about > textbook > prices may have an ally. While he hasn't proposed any legislation > on the > topic, he used an appearance Friday at the University of Texas-Pan > American to criticize the way professors benefit from writing > expensive > texts. The /Chicago Tribune/ > <http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/obama_on_a_col lege_textbook_ra.html> > quoted him as saying: "Books are a big scam. I taught law at the > University of Chicago for 10 years, and one of the biggest scams > is law > professors write their own textbooks and then assign it to their > students. They make a mint. It's a huge racket. /The Wall Street > Journal/ > <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/02/22/obama-to-students-be- > careful-with-those-credit-cards/?mod=googlenews_wsj> > reported that in a discussion in which Obama reiterated his > criticism of > private student loans, he also urged students to be careful about > their > own spending. "Just be careful about those credit cards, all > right? > Don't eat out as much," the /Journal/ quoted him saying. > > I can't speak for law schools, but I don't know that anyone makes > "a > mint" on textbooks. If it doesn't sell well beyond one's own > classes, it > isn't going to be around for very long, I would guess. And doesn't > it > seem reasonable that if you spend a great deal of time an effort > laying > out a particular topic in the way you think it should be taught, > that > you would want to also use that book in order to teach it that way? > > Regards, > Chris > -- > > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > > > > 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > > > "Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise > his > or her views." > > - Melissa Lane, in a /Guardian/ obituary for philosopher Peter > Lipton > ================================= > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
