Comments on: Duke gets free iPods

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:09:26 +0000

you little bitch you got an education from DUKE and you are bitching about a little frigging mp3 player…. what a spoilled little duke bitch you are…..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:33:13 +0000

If you read somewhere else on this site, someone has commented that the funding for the iPods is from a grant (not Apple). Maybe the music industry wants students to start legitimate downloading, who knows.

I doubt that the board and those responsible for financial matters at Duke would be so irresponsible as to squander funds on iPods when real liabilities and expenses are still outstanding.

Shame on the Duke graduate (earlier comment) who can think so superficially.

Despite his education at Duke, he’s still shallow enough to think like that.

Maybe THAT is what’s really sad…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:44:38 +0000

Sorry… should have been more specific… the author of the article seems to think that the only legitimate way to get music is by avoiding the major record labels-ie steal it if they have to have a share.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:18:44 +0000

They ARE paying for it. Where do you think Duke gets its money?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:10:18 +0000

It’s a sad state of affairs, but good schools actually have to compete for good students these days in the states. This is a thinly disguised plan to give extra incentive for students to come to duke.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:08:20 +0000

> They have no real acadmic purpose or use that cannot be
> covered by existing resources like the library and the
> computer network.

The same could be said of computers when they were first introduced.

Now, even moreso.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:06:56 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:22:05 +0000

I wonder if we’ll see these things at Oxford or Cambridge? I think not, thank God. Only in America.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:25:24 +0000

This is BS. I just graduated from Duke last May and this has me really annoyed. And mind you, it’s not so much that I don’t get an iPod, b/c frankly I’d rather have an M3L or an iRiver, but rather the excessive expenditure on the progam. Despite having raised vast quantities of money the university somehow doesn’t have enough money to fund its dining service and the Art & Sciences school is running at a deficit of $1.4 million! They can’t hire new or good profs due to lack of money but somehow they can dole out $500,000 for friggin iPods? They have no real acadmic purpose or use that cannot be covered by existing resources like the library and the computer network. But it does get the Duke name in the headlines so they must be happy.

Both the Big Four and Duke can sit on it and rotate!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:54:30 +0000