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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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Class notes should only belong to the author

Note taking is essential for students who want to pass their classes.

Some college students, however, take their notes that they write in class and sell them online.

Some of the CSU and UC colleges have changed their policy and banned the selling of notes, outlines, and study guides.

This conflicts with a student’s right freedom of speech, restricting how a student can use their written notes.

Cerritos should adopt a similar policy and restrict note sharing on campus.

It is wrong to profit from taking notes in class for students that don’t want to put in the effort needed to succeed in school.

It is basically plagiarizing the teachers ideas that are meant to be kept just for the student who took the notes.

Students who are involved in the sale of notes are irresponsible and are guided by greed.

There is nothing wrong with just sharing notes with another student. It is another thing to benefit financially from it.

In no way is this taking away essential rights they get from the first amendment.

It is the right thing to do morally.

Students should not sell their notes for profit and they should not take the easy way to get a good grade by buying notes.

What if instructors took the same route and wanted to sell their notes to students?

It is wrong equally for each side to take a part in this unlawful activities.

College should not be a place where you make money from class notes meant to only benefit you and your own grade.

College is a place where students go to get an honest education.

It is just wrong to make a business out of a students education and grade.

No students pay for fees for the content they are going to be provided with in the lecture.

They pay for the instructors guidance in a certain subject.

Not for handed down notes.

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Luis Guzman, Managing Multimedia Editor
Fall 2014 Hey guys and gals, my name is Luis Guzman. I am journalism student at Cerritos College, I’ve been going there for about three years now. I have been involved with Talon Marks, the newspaper for Cerritos College, for five semesters. I have done mostly everything there is to do in Talon Marks; covering breaking news, page design, video production, podcast production, and photography. I like to read in my off time, mostly books about science fiction and horror. I also like to write fiction of my own, mostly poetry and short fiction. The career I have in mind would involve anything that has to do with creative writing and maybe writing some articles for newspapers here and there.
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