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Uni Stuff => General University Discussion and Queries => Topic started by: nak on February 01, 2008, 09:04:59 pm
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are we able to subscribe to newspapers for a low price in uni?
i used to have the age subscriptions back in high school for only $10 a year.
If it's possible can anyone please give me a link, much appreciated. :D
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lol yeah u can just go to the library and read it for free :p
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There was some $20 thing
http://tertiary.theage.com.au/studentoffer.asp
(I read my random advertising junk xD)
My school didnt give us the newspaper subscriptions ;-; *kicks school*
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dont you??? you get this card saying you're a "the age subscriber" :D
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Yeah, it's $20/yr + you get it home delivered on weekends.
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arghhhh.. i don;t have a credit card and it wont let me use my bank card =/
is there a way to pay in cash at the uni library or something?
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Although I didnt subscribe last year, you should be able to pay via cash. There will be a stall where u can get subscriptions during o week.
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yep i think at most uni u can subscribe in o week :P
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if u go to melb uni u will get a free online subscription to the Australian and most of the fairfax papers (the age, smh)
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anyone know what day of the o week has the subscriptions for melb uni? cos im planning to just go to the engineering faculty day one.
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if u go to melb uni u will get a free online subscription to the Australian and most of the fairfax papers (the age, smh)
how do you go about "getting" these?
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My newspaper doesnt get delivered yet *cry*
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if u go to melb uni u will get a free online subscription to the Australian and most of the fairfax papers (the age, smh)
how do you go about "getting" these?
http://search.lib.unimelb.edu.au/V/?func=native-link&resource=UOM01157
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Slightly related, but does anyone know how I can access old issues (pre-2004) of Australian Financial Review? as in what databases that are available to uni's?
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Caramel, are you with the herald sun or the age? I subscribed for the hearld sun week end delivery and i think i have to wait 20 days before the newspapers arrive. At monash I can grab a copy of the age, herald sun or the australian and walk out the bookshop. You don't even need to show your subscription card.
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Caramel, are you with the herald sun or the age? I subscribed for the hearld sun week end delivery and i think i have to wait 20 days before the newspapers arrive. At monash I can grab a copy of the age, herald sun or the australian and walk out the bookshop. You don't even need to show your subscription card.
The age, sometime near the start of O week so it would be 5.5 weeks now and still waiting :(
When they moved it to the bookshop it took me a few days to work out where they'd gone XD
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I already get it caramel. Have been since Week 1 :P
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out of curiosity, are those tertiary papers any good? Apparently the VCE ones were quite useful according to some mates.
I was thinking to subscribe to one of them since they are quite cheap (my uni does not offer them free) but I am wondering whether the content is of any quality.
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DrowNz, do you go to Melbourne? I know Melbourne has a lot of newspapers come to promote their subscriptions during O-Week. Right now, I think both the Herald Sun and The Age are becoming trash. Teachers and students seem to have a thing for The Age, and I used to as well, but I think it has changed. My friends (and they don't necessarily share my political views) have suggested it has taken a much more populist swing, and I agree. I'm not sure whether I've changed or whether The Age has changed, but nowadays it is not so great to read. Maybe students and teachers still prefer it as a relative thing. However, just because a paper written poorly, it doesn't mean you shouldn't read it. If your heart rate is a bit low, you might want to read stuff that gets you fired up :P.
There are other choices too. The Australian is supposed to be good but I never get my hands on it because I tend to never sign up for anything.
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I already get it caramel. Have been since Week 1 :P
I obviously know *you* get it, because sometimes I move it the long journey from the drive way to the front door for you. xD
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I'm a selective newspaper reader, I read:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
http://chronicle.com.ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/ (free for UoM students)
Wall Street Journal for breaking business news and for opinions.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/opinion.html?mod=1_0045
The Financial Times for breaking news, and analysis from academic economists.
http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/
http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/
The NYT's education section and their opinion/blogs
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html
The Australian's Higher Education section - every Wednesday
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/highereducation/
The Age's Education section - every Monday
http://www.theage.com.au/education/
The Sydney Morning Herald's Education section
http://www.smh.com.au/education/
The Australian Financial Review Education section - every Monday
http://www.afr.com/home/weekly/education.aspx
Blogs:
Greg Mankiw's - professor of economics at Harvard
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
Andrew Norton's - Advisor to Melb Uni VC Glyn Davis
http://andrewnorton.info/blog/
Gary Becker, Nobel laureate, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
Richard Posner - Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/
Steven Levitt - professor of economics at the University of Chicago
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
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thanks guys!
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out of curiosity, are those tertiary papers any good? Apparently the VCE ones were quite useful according to some mates.
I was thinking to subscribe to one of them since they are quite cheap (my uni does not offer them free) but I am wondering whether the content is of any quality.
It's just the newstand copies of The Age, Herald Sun and/or The Australian...it's just at a MUCH cheaper price.