Thanks DAL bookstore. Thanks for exploiting the fact that you are the only place students have to purchase the necessary books for classes. Thanks for making returns absolutely impossible. Thanks for making the student poverty rate even higher due to your RIDICULOUSLY priced textbooks. but most of all THANKS for not letting me return a book three days after the purchase JUST BECAUSE THE STUPID CELLOPHANE WAS TAKEN OFF. i hate you.
This article appears in Jun 12-18, 2008.
I was super impressed when I went in there this year for something and they had their own cloth bags made up! And I thought, how great is that, hopefully they will give them out to students to carry their books home with, because books are heavy, and they are hard to carry in stupid plastic bags. But I was let down, as you had to buy them, even if you spent $300 on books, you still had to spend that extra cash to buy the bags. Come on Dal, we know you can afford to give those things away, so step it up and act like you actually care about the environment and your students.
Nova Scotian universites are robbery. They should be ashamed of themselves.
It’s not entirely the Universities’ fault they charge the tuition they do. Universities get money from Investors, Tuition, Federal/Provincial money and Alumni. The problem with Nova Scotian Universities, as I understand it, is that the federal funding formula gives money to the universities based on the provincial population. Nova Scotia has something like 11 universities and a population of about 1 million. In comparison, Ontario has 21 Universities, and a population of about 13 million.So we get maybe 1/10th the money to distribute among half as many universities. In order to make lower tuitions, Nova Scotia would have to close universities (which is not a political reality) or the federal government should change the formula to fund based on enrolement…so the money follows the students. Many of the students attending N.S. universities are from out of province. There’s a lot more to the issue, and I am not entirely sympathetic to the University admins for charging the tuition they do…students are pretty much the stones (stoners?) you can’t get blood from. Well, it’s borrowed blood anyway. It seems to me it would be a better investment for the gov’t if it changed the funding formula to allow a drop in tuition, allowing students to borrow less money, thus reducing their debt so they can borrow/spend more money on things that the gov’t can collect more taxes on, like houses and cars, once the students are working. The government can get more from me through income and sales takes than it can from the interest on a low interest loan.
student poverty….thats a laugh.