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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The students (and some teachers) have been complaining about the way the library computes for overdue books.

Let’s say your book is due yesterday (although not technically because it was a Sunday).

Fine, let’s say the book is due Monday, and you were only able to return it on Tuesday.

The overdue fine is twenty pesos per day. The way the librarian will compute it, if the book is returned on a Tuesday when due Monday, the fine is forty pesos.

Why? Because the librarian will start counting from the day it was due to the day it was returned.

So the fine is twenty pesos for Monday, then another twenty pesos for Tuesday.

The librarian does not count it that returning it on a Tuesday means being only one day (24 hours) overdue.

In other words, there is no way that a person (such as a student on an allowance) will pay only twenty pesos for an overdue book. The minimum amount is forty pesos.

Because of this, there have already been some students who have said they will never borrow a book from the library again, an attitude detrimental to studies.

But as a teacher, I can’t blame them. It really is an unfair practice, and it may be up to the Student Council to do something about it, backed up by teachers who are also being penalized the same way, to complain to the Dean.

Maybe, just like the business administration student service of selling printing services for only 62.5% of the amount the school is charging for one page, the students can also come up with their own library (maybe from books donated by the graduating students or even the teachers) where the overdue fine is lower.

That is the essence of business anyway, to sell something at a lower cost than that of your (formerly monopolizing) competitor to drive the customers your way.

They have already plans of doing that to the cafeteria anyway, so what’s one more source of income?

Session 1785 may be gouging the students who believe they have no other choice. Class dismissed.