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(Online Notes, continued) To complicate matters, the new legal counsel will not arrive until April 17, according to Kohonzo. For now, there are no university rules barring students from posting notes online. "I would prefer it if students do not do it, but anytime there's a market involved and people are getting money for it, they are going to do it," said David Carwell, a political science professor whose class is listed on the website. Carwell said there has to be a consolidated action against these websites and not individual protests. " I object to online posting on two basic grounds," said Lola McElwee, a journalism professor whose class was listed on the website. "Students should not be paid for (posting) what the teachers put together," McElwee said. "They are making money off what I did." McElwee said she has no qualms with students sharing work in class, but she draws the line at students getting paid to share with everyone on the Internet, "I think it's ethically wrong," she said. Furthermore, there was no control in terms of the quality of the notes taken, said McElwee. Sometimes an entry on the website may indicate there is no class on that time slot when the time was used to watch a video or take a quiz. Since there were frequent quizzes in her classes, most entries were listed as "no class" on that day, wrongly indicating dereliction of duty on the teacher's part. "Students should use every opportunity to practice their note taking skills, especially journalism majors," McElwee said. "They are paying money to come to school, so why do they get so lazy when they get here?"
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