TO THE EDITOR:
When I logged on to the Student Stores website to see what books I needed to buy for my classes, I was delighted to see that there really weren’t that many books I needed to purchase. Most of them could be purchased from Amazon for a fraction of the price and shipped to my dorm room for free.
However, many of my classes included a dreaded new form of academic waste: clickers. Now, I could understand if the University had a standardized system, requiring the purchase of one clicker that could be used in all classes. This is, unsurprisingly, how other top-tier universities operate.
No. Instead, students are asked to shell out $50 or so every time they take a class that requires a clicker. This semester, I have to purchase two different brands of clickers and am unable to use the clicker I purchased last year at all. The problem is only compounded by the tenuous-at-best educational value of said clickers.
Jonathan Stupak
Sophomore
Public Policy
