And withholding scholarship or grant money until a later date, but allowing you to use it as credit at the campus bookstore. Especially at a school where most people are using Pell Grants.
ETA of previous post: When I say “I am tempted,” I mean I was for a split second–you know, that time when your anger overclouds your judgment. Obviously doing that would be immoral.
All this over some overdue library books? :rolleyes:
An act is only moral if it helps others? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Others have more rights than me because there are more of them? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
I missed the lesson that hurting others for your own gain is wrong? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
I’m missing how he, himself, hurt others?
But no one’s explained how it hurt.
Sharing – specifically the sharing of books – is the base purpose of the library system. The book was shared out.
There’s absolutely zero objective difference between the book being on loan to one person for nine weeks and being on loan for a week to each of nine different people. Everyone else is going to be denied access to the book. If indeed the quantity of would-be borrowers exceeded the supply of the book, then there’s the problem. Luckily library users know that the library is incapable of meeting the potential demand for every single book and periodical in their system, and so they have no automatic expectation that whatever they want will be there at any possible time that they’ll want it.
Would you all still be upset if, for example, he went to all of the university bookstores and bought out all the remaining copies of the book in question instead?
I never heard of the ethos postulated in the OP. In Europe, from what I’ve seen, universities don’t usually have bookstores at all, and there are usually one or two large bookstores in a uni town that cater to students, and stock the textbooks they need. In the States, there’s more likely to be an on campus bookstore, usually run by the student union, but I never heard of anyone feeling obligated to buy their textbooks there. We didn’t have online shopping in my time, of course, but we could and did buy the books used. Even if this was still done at the on-campus store, it seems to amount to pretty much the same thing, in that it was a cheaper alternative to buying a brand new book.
As for off-campus sources, for a long time the old Cambell’s Books in Westwood Village sold many of the textbooks needed by UCLA students. This would probably have been before the 1970s when Ackerman Union and the ASUCLA bookstore was expanded. I think Campbell’s closed around that time.
Gaming the system? I didn’t read anything about Lonesome Polecat withholding the book after someone attempted to recall it. If there was no one else who actually wanted the book, then what was the harm? I agree with returning books on time as a general principle, but obviously some situations call for a little flexibility.
As I read it, he merely disagrees with you, so it’s no occasion to call someone willfully stupid in IMHO, is it?
No note and no warning issued, but just take an even strain. We hate to see threads about stuff like this explode into flaming matches.