Starting out at U of O, you probably find the amount of reading material excessive, but you are not alone.
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With Uoswap, a group of students at the U of O are streamlining the practice of reselling textbooks.
Universities are already riddled with institutional barriers given their entry price — textbooks only exacerbate this issue.
Some students prefer online readings, others prefer physical textbooks. A third group, faced with this dilemma, just opt out of doing readings at all.
The average class requires students to own and/or have permanent access to anywhere between one to three core books, never mind all the external reading material. For a student studying in five classes per semester, the maximum amount you pay could run into hundreds of dollars per semester.
This new campaign, titled Textbroke, began in early September to measure how students get their textbooks and how much they pay for them.
The sorry state of the Canadian dollar isn’t just tied to dismal oil prices. According to News Editor Eric Davidson, students should be on the look-out for how the struggling loonie will influence the prices of food, textbooks, and even booze.
With the number of global refugees, especially from war-torn Syria growing, Canadian provinces and cities are looking for ways to do more.
