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Best Buys in Grad Gifts Might Be Found at the University.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, April, 2007
Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Before buying a computer, iPod or other technology gift for a student about to head off to college, consider shopping in one more location: the university itself.
Many colleges and universities have special educational discounts on items such as computers, printers and software. An additional benefit is that shopping through the university helps ensure that your high-tech purchase is compatible with technologies used at the institution.
John Campbell, associate vice president for information technology at Purdue University, says that most incoming freshmen arrive on campus with a new computer and that a significant number of those are graduation gifts.
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