An unexpected $20,000 had to be pumped into the University of Wisconsin-La Crosseâ??s textbook rental program to ensure all students had materials in time for Mondayâ??s start of the spring semester, officials said.
Bart Vanvoorhis, associate professor of psychology, said UW-Lâ??s textbook rental staff told him last week they couldnâ??t buy more textbooks, even though his spring semester psychology class was 14 books short.
â??It flabbergasts me that we could ever be in a position that this could happen at a university,â? said Vanvoorhis.