Tufts Senate Encourages Lowering the Cost of Textbooks

The Tufts Daily is reporting that Tufts Community Union Senate has passed its budget for 2010. The article mentions, towards the end, that the senate unanimously passed a resolution aimed at reducing the cost of textbooks. The resolution suggested posting a list of required textbooks well in advance of class starting and to avoid new, often more expensive, editions of textbooks when possible. From the article:

[B]ooks are the single greatest out-of-pocket expenditure to students,” read the resolution, submitted by the Senate’s Services Committee…
“The Senate is really committed to reducing the cost of attending Tufts and incidental costs and barriers to social and academic life,” he [senate Treasurer Matt Shapanka] said.

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