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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by nhebb on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:19PM (#14194982)
I graduated from Oregon State in '92. The less-tech predecessor to this process was that they would sell homework packets at Kinko's for $20-30.

I've often wondered whether a legal case could be made against universities for price gouging.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by manyxcxi on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:35AM (#14200453)
Oregon State '05, they were charging $60 for the Kinko's packets for my various math and engineering classes. The best was the $150 I had to pay for a 'pre-print' loosely bound CS 'textbook' that one of my professors co-authored. Thank goodness it was only a 200 level class and I was already well beyond it. It was a terrible book and a rough class.
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