This semester, 24 or more MU professors required students to spend what I estimate to be about $158,557.44 on textbooks which those professors themselves had written. This is one conflict of interest about which I couldn't be less concerned.
COLUMN: Don't worry about professors requiring students buy their books
Monday, February 8, 2010 | 12:15 p.m. CST;
updated 6:31 p.m. CST, Monday, February 8, 2010
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