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From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse
Subject: Re: Why force the AT&T at UVM?
Message-ID: <294@tilt.FUN>
Date: Tue, 21-May-85 01:19:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 01:19:58 1985
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Reply-To: chenr@tilt.UUCP (Ray Chen)
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In article <235@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>> 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.

For a rebuttal of Roy Smith's argument, replace the word "micro" with
"calculator" in the first paragraph.

	Ray Chen
	princeton!tilt!chenr