June 23, 2006
Not for Sale: One Library
Tales abound of enterprising students who devise innovative ways to make fast money on the Internet. But the students who offered the University of Oxford's 400-year-old Bodleian Library on eBay were trying to generate publicity, not income.
The stunt was meant to draw attention to the debt students accumulate during their time at Oxford. The $356-million reserve price was equivalent to the estimated total value of the loans carried by Oxford's 11,000 undergraduates. Despite increases
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