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ATLANTIC
CHRISTIAN C-QLLEGE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, SEPTEMBER 15,1977
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SGA Budget Approved
Summer Draws To A Close (Photo by Peter Chamness)
Bookstore Policy Explained
The AC Bookstore enjoys only
a narrow profit margin, ac
cording to Bookstore Manager,
Cleo Murray. In an interview
last Friday, Murray cited
bookstore overhead as a major
reason for the small profit
margin.
Like any business, the
bookstore must pay any
overhead costs out of its profits,
Murray explained. She pointed
out that all freight costs,
unreturnable or unsellable
books, theft losses, building rent,
and employees salaries must be
paid for out of bookstore profits.
“Any money that is left over
after these costs is turned over
to the college, which uses it to
help keep tuition costs down,”
Murray added.
Murray noted that another
reason the bookstore has a small
profit margin is because the
purpose of the bookstore is “to
serve the students,” therefore it
is not trying to make huge
profits on anything that is sold.
When asked about the pricing
practices of the bookstore,
Murray gladly explained them.
“Art supplies are sold at a 20
per cent discount to students,”
Murray stated. Two prices are
listed on art supplies, she ex
plained. The higher price is the
manufacturer’s suggested retail
price, and the lower price is the
price of the item after the 20 per
cent discount.
Murray said “the bookstore is
lucky to break even on text
books.” She explained that
“publishers do give the
bookstore a 20 per cent discount
on textbooks, but out of this the
bookstore must pay the freight
costs (for the shipping of the
books).
Murray noted that losses on
textbooks that are not sold to
students or cannot be returned to
the publisher, freight charges on
books that can be returned, and
textbook theft.”
Murray explained that
students are given a small break
when inflation causes the price
of a book to rise. Any old copies
of a book that were bought at a
cheaper price remain at their
old price. She noted that the
practice of not marking up the
price of old stock runs contrary
to the business practices of
many stores, such as super
markets, and most bookstores
which do mark up the price of
old stock and make a large
profit.
“Most of the profits in the
bookstore come from the selling
of gift items, cards, stationery,
and clothing, such as shirts,”
Murray stated. She added that
these items are strictly luxury
items, and are sold at normal
retail prices.
School supplies, such as paper
and pens, make a very small
profit, and health and beauty
aids are sold at no profit since
they are in the store strictly as a
convenience to students, Murray
added.
Murray was also asked about
the bookstore’s policy of buying
and reselling used books. “The
price paid for a used book is one
half of the price of the book when
it was new,” she said. For
example, if a book cost $10 when
it was new, the bookstore will
pay the student $5 for it.
“When a used book is resold to
a student, the student pays 70
per cent of the price of the book
when it was new,” she ex
plained. For example, if a used
book cost $10 when it was new,
the student will pay $7 for it.
“This policy of buying and
reselling used books applies to
any book no matter how many
times it has been owned,”
Murray said. For example, a
book that is sold to the bookstore
for the third time will still bring
its owner one half of the new
price. The same $10 book will
bring its third owner $5, and
when it is resold, it will cost its
fourth owner $7.
Murray was quick to note that
AC is the only college in the state
that does not charge its students
75 per cent of a book’s original
price when reselling it. She also
noted that AC’s buying policy for
used paperback books was
exactly the same as for hard
backs. She added that the
present trend in most college
bookstores is to buy back used
paperback books at only one
third of the book’s original price.
Murray said that students
should consider that “if it wasn’t
the policy of the bookstore to buy
back used books, there would not
be any books at a reduced price
for them (the students) to buy.”
She noted that some college
bookstores refused to buy any
used books from students.
Murray mentioned two free
services that are provided to
students by the bookstore. These
are free check cashing and the
special book order service.
The special order service
allows a student to order single
books that he needs or wants
without paying a special charge
for it. The bookstore absorbs
freight costs and only charges
the student the publisher’s price
for the book.
Science Club Active
Karen Jones, President of the
Science Club, announced on
Monday that one of the club’s
projects this year would be “to
keep the Student Center
Fountain functional and clean.”
Jones said that the club would
take over maintenance of the
Fountain because “the trash
problem is too much for the
maintenance department to
handle.”
The Science Club is one of the
most active clubs on campus.
Every semester the club is
engaged in many projects that
help to improve the appearance
of the campus.
Maintaining the Fountain will
be one of the club’s largest
projects this year, Jones said.
Jones noted that present plans
for activities in the Science Club
are only tentative. She listed
some events that the club will
sponsor in the future:
—Lectures on various topics;
—Several field trips, including
several to the mountains;
—Various plant sales at
Christmas and in the spring;
—Possibly another Campus
Clean-up week, like the one held
last year.
Jones urged anyone who may
be interested in joining the
Science Club to come to its next
meeting. “Activities are being
planned, and if students want to
get in on them, they should join
the club now,” Jones said.
A record number of students
turned out for the regular
meeting of the Student Gover
nment Association meeting
Tuesday night at which time the
tentative operating budget was
brought before the student body
for final approval.
The budget was approved by
the majority of approximately 80
students present with only a
handful of dissenting votes. No
major effort was made to
change the budget prior to its
approval. The number of
students present far exceeded
the record number of twenty
who attended some few years
ago.
At the prior meeting the
budget had become a prime
issue due to the fact that three
campus groups were denied
funds because of their failure to
qualify as standing budgetary
organizations.
There had l)een, in the past
week, much confusion
surrounding the decision to
“drop” the Afro’Awareness and
Social Science Clubs and Pi
Gamma Mu, an honorary
society, from the budget.
Representatives from these
organizations were present at
the meeting where it was ex
plained that the organizations
had not purposely been denied
money to which they were en
titled, but rather had been
removed from the budget due to
the fact that they had been
unconstitionally receiving
money under the heading of a
Budgetary organization. The
Constitution (which may be
found in student handbwks)
states that “to be a budgetary
organization, meml)ership and
service shall be opened to all
members of the Student
(Jovernment Association and
shall be of benefit to all mem
bers of the Student Government
Association.” The above clubs
did not come under this heading
as would no other club or
organization other than the
following: The Collegiate,
Student Center, Campus
Christian Association,
Executive Board, Cheerleaders,
Entertainment Committee,
Bulldog Power Pep Club, and the
Pine Knot.
The point was emphasized that
clubs will, as always, be allowed
to requisition for funds from the
SGA. The funds, if approved by
the budget committee, the SGA
treasurer, and the SGA
president will be taken from the
Executive Board Fund.
After the budget had been
approved, Jones Fuquay,
President of the SGA, expressed
his appreciation for the student
interest shown and stated that
“our success or failure” depends
upon such participation.
At the Executive Board
meeting which followed, the
following resolution was tabled
due to precedural technicalities:
RESOLUTION CONCKKNING WEEKEND ACTIVITIES
ON THE CAMPUS OF ATLANTIC
WHEREAS, many students of
Atlantic Christian College leave
the campus on weekends, and
WHEREAS, many of these
students give their reason for
leaving the campus on weekends
as a lack of activities centered
around student participation,
and
WHEREAS, the Executive
Board of the Student Govern
ment Association feels that not
only academics and scholarship,
but also the building of a sup-
portative community, are an
integral part of the liberal arts
college experience, and
WHEREAS, students at large
lack the organization and in
stitution to plan and carry out
such activities,
Be it therefore resolved that
the Executive Board of the
S.G.A. takes the responsibility of
helping to build a supportative
community by promoting
fellowship on weekends,
AND be it furthermore
resolved that the Executive
Board gives the responsibility of
planning and carrying out these
events to the entertainment
committee,
AND be it furthermore
resolved that the entertainment
committee shall have budgeted
$900.00 for such events to be used
only for such weekend, on-
campus events, (This shall
exclude big name band concerts
even though they may fall on
weekends.)
AND be it furthermore
resolved that if the en
tertainment committee fails to
plan said event that the student
co-ordinator shall take the
responsibility of planning and
carrying out such an event and
that he shall have access to the
$50.00 previously budgeted to the
entertainment committee,
AND be it furthermore
resolved that a copy of this
resolution is to be sent to the
student co-ordinator, the
chairman of the entertainment
committee, and to the editor of
the Collegiate for publication.
Passed this 13th day of Sept.,
1977.
Miles E. Stanley
Vice-President, SGA
Carl Frazier
Senator, Sophomore Class
Stage and Script
Announces Cast
Stage and Script is proud to
announce its cast for the up
coming production, “Ten Little
Indians,” an Agatha C^iristie
murder mystery.
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Mrs. Rogers
Fred Narracott
Vera Claythorne
Philip Lombard
Anthony Marston
William Blore
General Mackenzie
Emily Brent
Sir Lawrence Wargrave
Dr. Armstrong
Kenny Smith
Jo Anne Cavenaugh
Joseph Thompson
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Gregory Dozier
Jimmy Ward
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