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Current issue:   May 7, 2008
Central Connecticut State University 

Your Source for Campus News.

   Top News
Bookstore Prepares for Buy-Back Season

While it’s a busy end of the semester for the student-run CCSU bookstore, the staff over at the corner of the student center is prepared for the deluge of students and used textbooks, especially with their guarantee of 50 percent return.

“Our team is proud as we continue to return the highest prices and guarantee 50 percent cash back on any faculty readopted textbooks (within our guidelines of course),” wrote Jack O’Leary, the CCSU bookstore director, in an email to The Recorder.

“This time of the year—it’s tough,” O’Leary said. “The publishers are out there trying to jockey the faculty.”
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Faculty Respond to RateMyProfessors.com

This time of year, RateMyProfessors.com seems to be running slower than usual—and with good reason.

The site boasts over six million ratings on over one million professors and six thousands schools; with 1,113 of those professors employed at CCSU and schedule revisions in full swing, the site’s popularity at this time of year is matched only by PipeLine and Facebook.

Political Science professor Dr. Jerold Duquette has been, the site claims, failing a good percentage of his students, who are in turn failing him. Duquette, however, said that the claim was completely unreasonable.
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Stephanie Bergeron / The Recorder



 

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   Editorial & Commentary
Editorial
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
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   Sports
CCSU Blue Devils Year in Review
Clean Sweep for Blue Devils with 8-5 Win Over Sacred Heart on Sunday
Montemurro Leads CCSU in Doubleheader Split at Hartford

 

 
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