(05-05-2024, 11:36 AM)MV72018 Wrote:(05-05-2024, 08:55 AM)Mick Wrote:(05-04-2024, 08:28 PM)norcard10 Wrote: tis a shame a 4.0 student like Angel is going to Oregon.
I always think that, whenever I read about a student-athlete (I realize that's an unfashionable term, but I am unrepentantly unfashionable) that has strong grades and test scores, "why didn't they go to Stanford?" Or at least Cal...
I retain two vivid memories of UO, from a college selection trip my son and I took up to UW and UO by car in 2003. First, it was truly a beautiful campus. Second, the bookstore was one of the most pathetic I've ever seen on a university campus. Pitifully thin selection of (non-text) books for purchase. That spoke volumes to me. For the sake of the students, I hope the main university library is a lot better in its scholarly holdings.
I like that if you go on the University of Oregon bookstore web site and click on "books" (not the textbook link, there is a separate "books" link) it returns all of 79 titles.
https://www.uoduckstore.com/gifts/books
Stanford's bookstore has 130,000 titles:
https://archived-bulletin.stanford.mobi/...dprograms/
To be fair, there is such a thing as the Independent College Bookstore Association (ICBA) which produces the annual Independent College Stores Report, and the University of Oregon did, in fact, win the award for Course Materials Management:
https://icbainc.com/education/independen...-report-2/
Audaces fortuna iuvat

