pet peeve of mine riles parents of students

[Jon Ford]

Now just a minute , Waynster-- I write those textbooks. Nobody sells mine 
back because I require each student to cut out 50 pages of each copy they 
purchased and submit said pages with their final journal.
Anyway, what's wrong with carrying a giant backback around? If you heft it 
right, and shift it a bit up and down as you stride along, it builds back 
and shoulder muscles, so it's like getting a workout for free. As for those 
beauties Mike describes, they probably have some dumb-ass shit-kicking 
boyfriends to carry their books around for them.

Jon






>From: Honor Johnson <cadaobh@brgnet.com>
>To: 'Michael Eisenstadt' 
><michaele@ando.pair.com>,"austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net" 
><austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: RE: pet peeve of mine riles parents of students
>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:20:58 -0500
>
>Mike.  There is a new game in town.  It is called: Buy My Big Textbook..or 
>Flunk.  Instead of using libraries, students now get to buy $80 to $150 
>textbooks which they will a) hate b) sell back on their way home from the 
>final.  Business interests outweigh educational interests every time.  
>Besides....all knowledge is now on the web, right?  Right?
>
>wj
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Michael Eisenstadt [SMTP:michaele@ando.pair.com]
>Sent:	Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:22 AM
>To:	austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject:	pet peeve of mine riles parents of students
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/24/education/24BACK.html
>
>every time I go to the UT's virtually empty library,
>I am amazed and depressed to see virtually all the
>students on the street in front of the library carrying
>enormous backbacks. only the prettiest co-eds eschew
>this practice. thankfully these beauties are vain and
>narcissistic enough to realize what they would look
>like strapped to a backpack
>
>(UT is the largest campus in the US with approximately
>50,000 students)
>
>it seems there is now a protest movement abuilding against
>this absurdity which you can read about if you so choose
>in the NYTimes article i have referenced above
>  << File: backpack.jpe >>


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