Show Students Are Fed Up With The High High Cost Of f 6 i. i Unused Textbooks by Gayleen Arns Student Students are tired of being charged outrageous prices on textbooks that half of the time are never used At the beginning of every quarter a alist alist alist list of books is the bookstore re for required cla classes ses The students then purchase the book only to f find nd that the text is seldom us used d. d Continued next column Also many of the texts are so lacking lacking lacking lack lack- ing in information that it isn't worth purchasing History is an excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent example of this The book that is used The A Americans A Brief History is hardly sufficient for the outlined course Essay answers are required to answer the questions on the test How can the student expect to receive a decent grade from a text with no information Another problem with the books is s that students are paying alot of money for books that contain information not studied in th the course They purchase purchase pur pur- chase an algebra book that contains 13 chapters and only 9 are used Why dont don't the bookstore and the instructors instructors instructors tors use more sense when selecting texts for their class If th these se books are required the Tech should at least select elect an appropriate appropriate text or lower the prices of books After all in essence the money comes from the students' students pockets not the schools Students are getting fed up with the price of books when they are not of much use |