Dude, Duke’s giving out free iPods!

Hey, it's as good a reason as any to choose where you'll spend the next four years of your life, right? ;) When this year's Duke University first-year class showed up for the fall 2004 term, all 1,650 of them
received complimentary iPods. They came preloaded with welcoming speeches by various Duke officials, which we bet are hot, hot items on P2P networks right now. The program set the university back a whopping $500K for a device slated to be used officially in only four course offerings. We're sure the rest of the students who didn't enroll in any of those four classes will find plenty of, uh,
academic uses for their iPods...

Thomas Skill, CIO of University of Dayton, scoffed at Duke's program, saying "they're moving forward with widespread adoption without first clearly and effectively articulating the educational applications, outcomes, and assessment mechanisms." Translation: he's hopping jealous!

(via MyAppleMenu)