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Our View - Props to ASCSU for textbook bill
Students, rejoice! Through the bitter persistence of student leaders from across the state, Colorado politicians have heard us out, and for once we've actually achieved some results. As a result of student-written textbook transparency legislation, textbook publishers will be required to disclose the price of textbooks and other materials on their Web sites and catalogs.
Big oil is not the problem
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As you drive around town, it is hard not to notice how quickly gas prices have gone up, and it's only April. With the peak driving season just around the corner, many have predicted gas prices will break $4 per gallon this summer. Naturally, people get angry, but we should be careful where we focus our frustrations.
LTTE: Confused over textbook article
In your April 7 article on open textbooks, you wrote, "CSU business finance professor Tim Gallagher has already submitted a textbook he wrote to be put onto a free download site." Some of your readers have inferred from this that I uploaded my textbook to a Web site that allows anyone to make their materials available for others to download.
George W. Bush: champion of the American laborer
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For the past eight years, and indeed several more before his presidency, Bush has repeatedly attempted to paint himself as a working class hero - masking his trust fund arrogance, governor daddy and old money upbringing, attempt at a Yale education and complete and total physical removal from anything working-class with a $500 cowboy hat, jeans with bits of dust on them and a complete ignorance of and disdain for basic English grammatical structure.
