Free iPod with $40,000 tuition

So, Duke is offering its students free iPods that will be pre-loaded with "school-related information, including freshman orientation details, the academic calendar, campus tours and even the school’s fight song." This is a one-year half a million dollar project. This story made me think of what I got "for free" from my college: a rape-whistle. According to a survey done while I was a student there (& which I can't find online, sorry), two out of three undergraduate women at good ol' UIUC are sexually assaulted before they graduate. And what did they do? They gave us a whistle. A magic pixie-dust whistle which you were supposed to wear around your neck, and be able to blow loudly if you were attacked. Nevertheless, the female student rape statistics continue to be steady--whistles or not. So, iPod vs. rape whistle? Seems like the iPod might prove more useful.