Check out you college bookstore too. At the one I work at, our computer department has really good ties with Apple and the can offer amazing discounts on macs. I'm not sure if they do free touches but it's probably worth it to look into it.
And last year I came into work and there were police everywhere, and I was like wtf mate. Turns out someone had broken in the night b4 and stolen all of our touches and a few macbooks. They caught it on tape, then he tried to register them on the school's network and they flagged the hardware ID or something and owned him xD