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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Why force the AT&T at UVM?
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 11:34:01 EDT
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> If students are going to be required to purchase a micro they should
> be allowed to exercise their own intelligence and get a machine they
> feel fulfills their needs both for the classwork for which the machine
> is being required and for other work that they may be doing.

	One of the many things a college does for its students is prevent
them from making bad decisions (or try to, anyway).  Who is better able to
judge what machine is more suitable for someone's college career; a kid
fresh out of high school or the people who are planning his/her courses for
the next 4 years?

	Replace "micro" with "textbook" in the above quote and see how
absurd it sounds.  Yes, I know that a PC costs 100 times what a textbook
does, but you only buy 1 PC for your college career, while you might very
well buy 100 textbooks.
-- 
allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith)
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute