To quote the popular Broadway musical "Rent," when it comes to textbooks, we're not gonna pay! Well, at least we're not gonna pay full price, if we can rent.Whether you are the type to show up on the first day of class with the textbook, before ever receiving a syllabus, or the type to frantically run out and buy the book an hour before homework is due, buying a textbook is unavoidable.

Prices can get out of hand, and even with the option to buy books online, it's still pricey. And when the time comes to sell back the books, students barely make enough to cover half of what it cost to buy those books.

At the end of Fall 2007, some books sold for as little as $3 in the Youngstown State University Bookstore's textbook buyback. Students might as well keep every book of their college career on the shelf .

. Unless YSU follows the example of Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green's campus bookstore is offering another alternative to shelling out the big bucks for textbooks. To combat the ever-increasing prices of books, the bookstore is offering the option to rent textbooks.

While this method doesn't promote the idea that students will keep the books once the semester is over, who really keeps all their books?

By the end of the semester we are itching to get rid of those books and make some money.

The renting fee at Bowling Green is 35 percent of the book's latest edition price. If a new book costs $100, it would cost $35 to rent it for the semester.

Bowling Green's bookstore is offering this new policy for mathematics, geology and some public relations courses.

While it's the first time a university is trying anything like this, any pennywise student can appreciate the new method.

While the New York City musical characters struggle to pay their "Rent" on Broadway, this is one type of rent broke college students are happy to pay.