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4 The Dally Tar Heel Thursday, September 24, 1975 Publishers making cash -x-fr. by Elizabeth Leland Staff Writer Student Stores may have a virtual monopoly on textbook sales in Chapel Hill, but that isn't why the cost of books is so high. Publishers are the "cruel monopolists" responsible for such high prices, said Thomas Shetley, manager of Student Stores, and Wallace Kuralt, owner of the Intimate Bookshop. Shetley also added that some faculty are often responsible for increased costs. Both men agreed that there's little profit in the textbook business for sellers. The retail price is established by the publisher. Kuralt explained that textbooks are HELD OVER! 2:20-4:40 7:00-9:20 iRlBESTRlCliFTfr 'ill J , - - fr- t iAMES CAAN a NORMAN JEWISON wm "ROLLERBALL STARTS TOMORROW 3:24 6:35 9:501 WALT DISNEY productions SV fj i our 1 Is TECHNICOLOR c Walt D.sney ProOucl.ons J 2:00 5:11 8:25 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS' "CINDERELLA" G STARTS TOMORROW 2:45 4:55 7:05 9:15 STACY KEACH IN JOHN OSBORNE'S STARTS TOMORROW: 3.05 5:05 7:05 9:05 FIVE DAYS OF THE MOST INTENSIVE MANHUNT EVER MOUNTED LAST TIME TODAY f RESTAURANT I varieties! ff Ground Beef Steaks - 95 ysaad & french fries ' Jjf AChef's Salads $1.10- kchoice of 10 toppings. 2.85 J ( 1 m 1 iimimiiii..i.ii 1 1 ' T1 4 jPGj "THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD" 3-5-7-9 ' THE ICEMAN COMETH" 2:30& 7:30 "THE WILBY CONSPIRACY" 3:05 5:05 7:05 9:05 short discount books. A bookstore, makes a profit of $1.75 on a $10 book. The difference goes to the publisher. On trade books (non-textbooks) the store makes $3 on a $10 sale. That's if the store is lucky. Many times a professor changes the textbooks for a course or cancels a course without notifying the book store. The store can only return 20 of the unbought books to the publisher. It must also pay the postage on returning the books. Because of such expenses, Shetley said "no college store really depends on textbooks for its bread and butter." Pennants, stuffed puppy dogs and T shirts make the running of Student Stores possible, he said. The low profit from textbooks was the reason Kuralt closed down the Intimate's textbook department. He explained that space needed for kids' books as well as a good deal of money was tied up by textbooks which the store only sold two or three times a year. Kuralt was also dissatisfied with the publishers' policies. Referring to the low percentage of unbought books which could be returned, he said, "If that's the kind of cooperation we get from the publishers, then to hell with them." Both Shetley and Kuralt discouraged any fear that Student Stores will take advantage of its monopoly on book sales. "We follow the publishers' list prices," Shetley said. "If we raise a price we'd get ashes on our heads. There's bound to be at least one student out of 20,000 who would find out." He added that to cut prices would be unthinkable. But Shetley did have two suggestions for keeping book costs down. IRTHCHOICE Prolife Pregnancy Counseling 942-3030 From Durham WX3030 toll free Monday thru Friday 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. LAST DAY TODAY ...i 3:00 6:00 9:00 0 M M M ' Ingmar Bergman's SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE . stamng L!V ULLMANN Begins Friday ps-S? One Week ... v Only! An emotional blockbuster of the highest r degree! f Best Actress of the Year iOfTT-M.'lrM r y LATESHOW Friday-Saturday 11:45 The most "T f elpctrifvintr I f ritual ever seen! j 0 AS "&UMI Tinniinr-J M TECHNICOLOR In the past few weeks we have been asked often, by people frightened by the long lines outside the theatre, if we have enough seats. Unless the line gets to Battle Hall, you have nothing to worry about - there are plenty of seats!!! M H M -- .....-' V LA 1 Bit t i I First, he citd the need for some sort of governing rjechanism on professors so that they cold not change textbooks each year witbut a valid reason. Textbook jhanges waste, money because if a tet is not going to be used the next year&tudent Stores buys the used book bak to sell to a wholesaler. Therefore, it kn only give the student 10-15 cents bik on the dollar. Shetley said that if ajook is going to be used again, the stuent can get 50 cents back on the dollar, A second leans of keeping prices down, Shetld said, is to make sure faculty meet he deadlines for book orders, whichney frequently don't. To protect itself, Itudent Stores buys back used books ahe 10-15 rate, only to find out later tat the same books will be used the nextlemester. "If we had fiund out sooner that the professor wated the old books, students woul have saved many hundreds of dllars," said Shetley. Meanwhile' students have few alternatives bit to pay the inflated prices of new boks at Student Stores. The Intimat Bookshop sells some textbooks as a avor to certain faculty. But the prices re comparable to those at Student Stces. Students cajgo to Five Points Book Exchange in Uirham, but chances are slim that thfll find what they're looking for, uress they're in the market for law or meical books. The APO ook sale offers good discounts on used books, but not enough for 20)00 students. There's also the problei of courses which continually rquire different books each year. Unless, af Shetley suggested, the faculty is mae to mend its ways, UNC's student bod will be well-read, but impoverishej real muss j svJ U (LP u jj(IJJLI2)) Persons attending: J.F.K. Presidential Inaugural - 1960 M.L King "I Have a Dream"Speech; Washington, D.C. 1964 ? LEASE CALL: 933-7357 or 933-5132 -1 pTTTTTTTrTT'ffTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTI MlJIIIIllllllllllllJlllllliliiimmi imttrmrrmTT Wai HOME ever this good? iVe offer IIONTH'S 1 I RENT (If you lease a 1 -bedroom apartment J x I . r uurmg me monin frv) and (to any tenant from our own pro) Piiegate Apartments Chapel Hill Durham Especilly for the grad student or oung professional. Tennis Curts Central Vacuum System Self defrost refrigerators Swimmirl Pool ClubhouS opening Dishwashers Continuous cleaning ranges soon II Rollerball:future by Michael McFee Film Critic Take the worst of roller derby, pinball, football, hockey and motorcycle demolition derby, and you've got "rollerball," the game of the future. Take the worst of Billy Jack and 'Wide World of Sports,' put it on skates, add as theme song Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D-Minor, and you've got Rollerball, Norman Jewison's latest spectacle in inanity. The man who brought you Topol and "Jesus Christ, Superstar" pretends in this film (with all the profundity of Howard Cosell), that we are in the near future, free from poverty, pollution and all other material discomforts, including war. This is crucial, for instead of carnage between nations, all the world vents its violent, nasty feelings as spectators at the rollerball rink. . Rollerball is an odd melange: two teams of motorcyclists and skaters careen around a rink and try to score goals with a steel ball. Their uniforms resemble the 49ers with IBM numbers, the playing area is like the Cow Palace at n n J L titi ISViSVlEDiATEL - 1 1 - - -N v lnn i; . it s fo) ot 5eDtember) TENNIS LESSONS! 3 967-362 93-2488 1 Cross-Bluesrfeld Bldg 15-501 Dufham-Chapa) H ll Bivd PINEGATE CIRCLE ! inn 1 j pmiii"('iwp jk-iw-JHiil'" jilu J-JJ. 1 JU 1 n nmj k u,i.mjijiiLj n j'.ji'Wi-'i.'.'J1 ijii nr.nrr rT-1 " " I i ! ? I 1 ' i .y- "-i s i S " - ' i ' vr -4 :. J. s-' 'St i . :' .-t;. i i ' I si? ' r I x i 11:30 on Saturday nights and the outcome approximates General Hospital's emergency room after a chain collision. This is the story: Mr. E. has been suddenly and mysteriously commanded to retire from the sport by Britisher Bartholemew (John Houseman), who not only owns the Houston team but who also controls corporations that control the world. In refusing, Jonathan E. does the unthinkable pitting himself against the whole world in a fight to the death and providing the unfortunately silly Man vs. Society motivation for the film. Not surprisingly, it is the film, and not Jonathan E., that dies. The acting alone is enough to keep "Rollerball" in the penalty box. James Caan behaves as if his facial muscles suffer from terminal charley-horse. His characterization of the rebel athlete approaches the stature and sensitivity of a locker-room Tom Laughlin, besides which he is sheer poetry in the rink. John Houseman is similarly engaging as bad-guy Bartholomew, offering a stolid, sagging face and a ponderous British accent as characterization. A truly embarassing spot in the movie belongs to Ralph Richardson, who appears for one sad scene as the keeper of the world computer "Zero ." If Zero looks and behaves like the Wizard of Thousands of Topics Send for your up-to-date, 160 page, mail order catalog. 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See Friday's DTH for a review. schlock Oz, then Richardson is the brainless lion, distraught with an electronic brain which can lose entire centuries and yet control the world. But the blame for this shallowness does not lie w ith Richardson or even the laconic Caan, but with a director who gives more complexity to his machines and games than to his actors. His penchant for cliche and symbol is appalling: electric eye doors and wall size TVs mean the future, a cut between a heated conversation and a flaming tree outside means anger. The people of his future resemble robots in leisure suits. The screenplay by William Harrison reinforces Jewison's simple-minded game plan. Lines like "Can't you do what you're told?" and "Life's an assignment" stick out like thesis statements in a soundtrack that otherwise features grunts and crunches and snatches of metallic Bach. After 10 minutes, it's like an instant replay of a bad sermon. Don't misunderstand: Jewison tries to be profound and prophetic, and few would deny that sports and violence and boredom and other social problems deserve close scrutinization. But his vehicle is so obvious and his themes so blatantly overstated that the w hole mess comes off like Curt Gowdy talking eschatology on Monday Night Football. 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