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University Sponsored Music Services?
Amy's Robot writes "The president of Penn State University is urging colleges to start their own digital music services. The schools would pay the licensing fees, and pass the charges on to their students. His logic is that paying for the school's service is an incentive not to use an "illegal" service. Supposedly, there will be some pilot programs this fall, but it seems like there are a lot of obstacles to overcome before then."
Holy crap, I love Canada! You USAmericans mock Canada's slightly higher taxes, but when it comes to things like education and healthcare, it is quite obviously us Canucks who are laughing both last and loudest.
You give RIT as an example. I've seen the commercials, and it looks to me like a pretty low-rated school (I don't believe it qualifies as a "university"), and you're saying the tuition there is $26,000 USD per year, or about $35,700 Canadian. That's insane.
My alma-mater is Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. It is the most expensive undergraduate university in Canada (although I believe Dalhousie is very close). Students who attend there are issued brand new IBM laptops (not for keeps, but they get them for the full term). Every single dorm room is wired for ethernet. It is a beautiful, historic campus with a wide range of world-renowned programs. Tuition is $6584 CDN ($4788 USD) per year (8 months).
Out of sheer curiousity, I checked out Harvard's rates. Oddly, it is $26,488 USD - almost exactly the value you quoted for RIT. I can only assume that you included all other expenses in your value, while the fee I found for Harvard (as well as the number I quoted for Acadia) are for tuition only.
Oh yeah, and of course there's the health care thing. In Canada, if you get sick, you go to the hospital and they help you. If it's not urgent, you make an appointment to go and see your doctor, and he/she helps you. Nobody asks for your credit card or insurance information. And sure, while our taxes may be 1 or 2 percent higher, we're not shelling out $300/month in health insurance premiums, either.
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As te old adage goes, RIT accepts 99% of all the men who apply, and every fourth woman.
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