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Students were invited to speak with Adam Petkun and the ASUO on Tuesday afternoon in a
town-hall-style meeting held in the Ben Linder Room.
IN BRIEF
Students voice questions
at town-hall meeting
A handful of students attended
the first ASUO town-hall meeting of
the year on Tliesday afternoon to ex
press concerns and find out about
the ASUO’s current programs.
ASUO President Adam Petkun
and other ASUO leaders spoke dur
ing the open forum, held 3 p.m. to
6 p.m. in the Ben Linder Room of
the EMU.
Petkun answered questions about
topics ranging from the confusing
layout of the EMU to the ASUO’s
lobbying efforts in Salem. He said
student government members and
other students will travel to Salem
on Tuesday to lobby for increased
higher-education funding.
Petkun said he was satisfied with
turnout at the event and with the
quality of questions students asked.
He emphasized that students are al
ways welcome to express their opin
ions at the ASUO office.
Petkun also said he hopes the fo
rum will become a regular event.
Portland State University’s student
government holds a town-hall meet
ing about once per week, but that
might be too frequent for the ASUO,
he said.
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“Ripoff 101 ” said they used bundled
items “rarely” or “never.”
Stephen Gladfelter, a math in
structor at Lane Community College
who spoke at the event, described
ways bundled materials can cause
problems in the classroom.
“The different problems in the
workbook weren’t really a represen
tative sample of the problems in the
book,” Gladfelter said of a book he
had taught from.
Some books also come bundled
with answer keys. While answer
keys are intended to help students
check their work, Gladfelter said
they are often misused.
“Obviously students have to take
some responsibility for their own
habits, biit to have this bundled
with the text makes it a little too
tempting,” he said.
Bookstore Textbook and General
Team Leader Chris Standish said the
bookstore encourages faculty not to
order books packaged in bundles.
“We let the faculty know that by
requesting bundles, they’re restrict
ing access to used books,” Standish
said. “We engage in bundle-busting,
and I think that’s a really good thing
for our students.”
Despite the efforts of schools and
students, textbook prices are still in
creasing. Gladfelter said the text
book for an intermediate algebra
class he recently taught cost $95,
more than any of the textbooks he
bought when he took graduate-level
math classes five years ago.
“For a book that’s not even at the
college-transfer level to cost more
than a graduate-level book doesn’t
make a lot of sense to me,” he said.
ASUO President Adam Petkun
said textbooks represent up to half
the cost of attending community
colleges and almost a fifth of the
cost at some four-year colleges.
“This is a trend that puts students
deeper in debt and puts access to
higher education on its deathbed,”
Petkun said.
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