Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:02:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam Friends: Students entering college in some US universities get free iPods! Arun

from the April 19, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0419/p11s01-legn.html

When iPod goes collegiate By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

When Kenneth Rogerson walked into his newspaper journalism class on the first day of the school year, the professor could barely contain his excitement.

After a quick introduction he broke the big news: "We got the grant," he told his class. "You all get iPods."

As if on cue, the students exhaled an audible "whoa" and exchanged elated glances. Duke University in Durham, N.C., had already made many a headline as the first school ever to provide all incoming freshmen with their own 20-gigabyte iPods - enough space to store up to 5,000 songs.

Now, thanks to a grant program set up within Duke, some upperclassmen were overjoyed to also become recipients of the slim white gadgets.

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