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jollyjane 09-23-2010 12:16 AM

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People have to pay for those text books, Im sure this will all back fire into a "See how they reject our free k-12 education by getting rid of txt books that AMERICAN tax payers paid for??" I can hear Faux news already.

dado123 09-23-2010 12:24 AM

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We have to work together here guys,, then we can brainstorm counters to the logic o the opposition, we pay taxes, it is a college book, we can't just wait for something to happen.

ari88 09-23-2010 12:39 AM

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send old college ones, not high school ones, we shouldn't even have those anyway! lol u kept them

Ali 09-23-2010 01:14 AM

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wth for? the symbolism is lost once they toss them anyways.... it's not like they're gonna amass them and show them to the media.

buckminsterfullerene 09-23-2010 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Ali (Post 176268)
wth for? the symbolism is lost once they toss them anyways.... it's not like they're gonna amass them and show them to the media.

don't send them directly to the senators, send them to someone that can amass all the books and then make it a big deal by putting it all in a truck and dumping them in the front steps.

I still do not see it as being right that they would be textbooks, it would be better if it were just notes. Sending textbooks that they could just profit from or books that we lose would seem like a big waste.

but either way, a big truck dumping them in the front steps could signify wasted knowledge.

victor85 09-23-2010 04:04 AM

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I like the ideas of sending notes en masse ! It's so much more efficient than sending textbook. Textbook is hella expensive and so heavy; it gonna cost a lot of postage to send a textbook whereas notes are very light.

I have boxes of notes at home from previous classes.

Ali 09-23-2010 11:48 AM

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i dunno about you guys, but i value my notes. I guess i could send the unimportant class notes like poli-sci and history....but i don't even think i have those anymore

withchemicals 09-23-2010 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by buckminsterfullerene (Post 176189)
uggh... my book list usually cost over $1000 per semester, don't want to just send it for free and lose everything. how about all my notes... those are perhaps more symbolic as they are written in my handwriting... I have two boxes of notes, each weighting maybe 25-30 pounds of notes assingments and projects from high school and college.
(not sure if you guys noticed, but I tend to write a lot :-p)
besides my parents have been asking me for the longest time to throw all that stuff away and have already thrown about half a box or a box equivalent.

I hear you! My textbooks are my life pretty much. I never really write notes on seperate pieces of paper but rather directly into the books. They say when you write notes in books, you make it twice as longer than before but twice as shorter to read ( a saying)!

victor85 09-23-2010 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by withchemicals (Post 176357)
I hear you! My textbooks are my life pretty much. I never really write notes on seperate pieces of paper but rather directly into the books. They say when you write notes in books, you make it twice as longer than before but twice as shorter to read ( a saying)!

You could ask for old notes from friends or family. Or, you could go to local library to buy a $1 textbook and send it to the senators to symbolize wasted knowledge.

buckminsterfullerene 09-23-2010 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ali (Post 176316)
i dunno about you guys, but i value my notes. I guess i could send the unimportant class notes like poli-sci and history....but i don't even think i have those anymore

The thing is that notes are a whole lot more personal then simply a textbook which anyone could buy. It shows our dedication of time to education, and they can be a pretty impressive sight en masse, because they would know that dreamers wrote all that. Imagine imagine thousands of pages of handwritten notes.

and this issue, it is getting very personal for politicians to use it as a game to gain votes.

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Originally Posted by withchemicals (Post 176357)
I hear you! My textbooks are my life pretty much. I never really write notes on seperate pieces of paper but rather directly into the books. They say when you write notes in books, you make it twice as longer than before but twice as shorter to read ( a saying)!

I used to write note on my textbooks and I do have a chemistry textbook somewhere which you will have a challenge to find any white, empty space to write even a word. It worked well, but that one was for an AP class in high school and I got it for $20, college books, the professors require new editions and they end up costing about 200-250 each, it seems like a shame to write on them even though I agree with you, I felt it was more beneficial to write my notes on the text because it was right there with the text that supported my notes.


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