MASSPIRG at Greenfield Community College

OUR MEETINGS - TBA

This Week - Help us collect surveys and stories about the horrors of textbook prices that we can bring them along to the bill hearing! Contact sandi@masspirgstudents.org to help!

FALL CAMPAIGNS:

Affordable Textbooks: Everyone knows that textbooks are expensive. Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, which is about a third of the tuition here at GCC! We’ve submitted a bill that would force publishing companies to clean up their act by disclosing pricing information, giving professors the option to buy books without the CD’s and workbooks, and make more low cost options available. Help us get this bill passed so we can have fair textbook prices!

***NEWS*** The date of the hearing for the Affordable Textbook Bill is October 2nd! If you plan on coming please get in touch with Sally at salwil27@yahoo.com

- Work with Representative Donelan to get the Affordable Textbook Bill out of committee with a positive recomendation

- Collect 50 Textbook Horror Stories to bring with us to the hearing in Boston about the bill

- Register students on www.campusbookswap.com so we can trade books with each other

- Educate the campus about what we can do to solve this problem by holding a forum on campus.

- Check out this link to the article in the Recorder about this campaign and the report MASSPIRG released about how these publishing companies are ripping us off! http://www.recorder.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=14&ArticleID=1269&TM=39530.79

Office Location - N306

Hours: TBA

Office number: (413) 775-1433

Contact email: sandi@masspirgstudents.org