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Perhaps the introduction of paid endorsements into the college classroom is not new, but it is simply not acceptable and needs to be stopped.

By definition any paid endorsement is an advertisement. By this action Microsoft is advertising in our colleges, most of which receive public funding of sum sort. Since the $200 goes only to the professor, the institution and students (and possibly competing corporations through gifts) are subsidizing this advertisement. It seems to me that this is a theft the schools resources by the professor and Microsoft.

I cannot believe that instructors are allowed to make paid endorsements during official class time. I would have assumed that such endorsements violated school policies on instructor ethics. If not the perhaps they should.

-- Mark Hinds, Software Engineer (posted 4/21, 5:28 p.m., E.D.T.)
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