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iPhone required! Tuition not included

Sunday, May 17, 2009

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University of Missouri, Columbia students entering this year have been given an interesting if not stupid requirement.  Along side things like your school text books, a computer, and other normal class essentials, the university is now saying that they REQUIRE all students to purchase an Apple iPhone, or iPod Touch.  The reasoning is suspect at best, and the justification that students can add the costs to their student loan forms does little to help the double pain of a public university requiring a specific companies device (a dang expensive one at that), dispite it having no unique functionality that cannot be duplicated in other ways.   One of the main reasons given for the requirement by Brian Brooks, associate dean of the school, is so that students can record lectures and refer back to them later….

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Apparently there is a space time vortex in the university that prevents 1974 tape recorders from working there (not to mention the hundreds of other electronic recording devices).

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photo courtesy of XbBiker
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