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The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education has unanimously decided to require all students to purchase laptops at the state's many colleges and Universities. They will, of course, give vouchers to low income students, those with financial aid, and I'm sure anyone getting scholarships will have their latop as part of the deal. Being the intrepid (read: nosy) soul that I am, I've pestered the plan's chief architect via e-mail and managed to get someone to send me an electronic copy of the plan. It's in powerpoint, but you can still read it. Here it is - note that it's 600K in size. If you're too cheap to buy Office, then download their Powerpoint Viewer.

I'm waiting for the political fallout from this plan to hit the street. UMass Amherst, (my alma mater), is very well-known across New England to have a lot of protest-happy (read: whiny) graduate students. Don't get me wrong...I'm all for a little civil disobedience now and again however these people protest over the pettiest things and often have no concept of real world issues. Unfortunately, it appears that the student newspaper The Daily Collegian appears to be "under construction" so all I can do is watch local WMass news and keep an eye on the UMass-scandal-happy Boston Globe. Who knows...maybe the well-written faculty and staff paper Campus Chronicle will also have some great stuff.

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