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RE: [HAPS-L] Textbook prices
My local school district library loves to get my old A&P texts: especially the 9th grade boys!
dford@xxxxxxxxxx 3/13/2006 1:51 PM >>>
That may be true. I’m not sure. However I do know this. The transactions are in cash. There is no record of the transaction. There is no receipt for the transaction. The college does not keep a log of the desk copies that we get and thus don’t know that the books even exist. I would say that this particular crime would be nigh unto impossible to either (A) detect, or (B) prosecute. Although the lawyer may be theoretically correct, realistically I don’t see it happening.
FYI – I give my desk copies to the school Library or donate them as prizes for student events.
Dayton J. Ford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
4588 Parkview Place
St. Louis, MO 63110
dford@xxxxxxxxxx
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From: HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Lepri JJLEPRI
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:30 PM
To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [HAPS-L] Textbook prices
For those who sell "desk copies" for personal profit, you might be interested in the perspective of my University's attorney: textbooks provided at no charge to the professors for evaluation in their jobs are the property of the University. Making a personal profit off donations to the University is, obviously, inappropriate, and perhaps more worrying, grounds for University action against the employee. Has anyone else received this spin from their folks who ought to know? JJL
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John J. Lepri, Ph. D.
Associate Professor & Head
UNCG-Biology
312 Eberhart Building
Greensboro, NC 27402 USA
phone: 336-334-4132
HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/13/2006 12:44:55 PM:
I'm catching up with a backlog on this topic.
Apparently some urban legend (true or otherwise) was being spread
around the BUBBA LEGISLATOR LIST SERV sugegsting that some
professors at big schools, where there might be section sizes of
600-900 students, were being paid cash (in the several hundreds to
thousands of dollars) so that a particular text would then be
assigned to a large number of students in a big U system.