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Committee Prepares to Suggest
Changes to Textbook System
Prices and buy-back process are key topics
By Jennifer Johnson
Staff Writer
As students line up to buy textbooks
at Student Stores this week, a committee
is working to make it a more pleasant
experience for those same students next
semester.
Student Congress established the
textbook committee in April in response
to student complaints. The committee
found that many students were frustrat
ed by the prices of new and used books
at Student Stores and the perceived low
buy-back prices for the books at the end
of the semester.
Committee member and senior Brad
Overcash said the committee met
recendy with a representative from
Student Stores to determine why books
are so cosdy and why the buy-back
prices are so low.
Overcash said the buy-back prices
are not in the hands of Student Stores,
but UNC professors.
The committee learned that Student
Stores will pay more money back to stu
dents for textbooks being used again the
following semester. Overcash said the
problem is that many professors don’t
report the books they will be using until
after the deadline has passed.
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ed out Tuesday is necessary because of
the impropriety of the players’ actions.
“We take these actions very seriously,”
he said.
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“It’s not Student Stores marking up
texts like a lot of people think,”
Overcash said.
He said the committee is trying to
assemble information packets for pro
fessors that would explain why they
need to declare what books they will be
using ahead of time and how much
money this would save students.
There is not a comparable solution to
solving the problem with high-priced
new textbooks,
Overcash said,
because of the
scholarships that
Student Stores has
attached to text
book sales.
Each year part
of the proceeds
from textbooks
sold in Student
Stores is given as
“As far as new book
prices go, the only way to
cut prices is to eliminate
the scholarships. ”
Brad Overcash
Committee Member
academic scholarships to students.
“As far as new book prices go, the
only way to cut prices is to eliminate the
scholarships,” Overcash said. “Student
Stores is not interested, and student gov
ernment is not asking.”
Although the committee cannot cut
the price of new books, it has come up
with several ideas to help students avoid
Similar incidents must be prevented
in the future, Kirschner said. “The
behavior that occurred was improper,”
he said. “Steps need to be taken to
ensure that doesn’t happen again.”
The suspension was the decision of
Director of Athletics Dick Baddour;
Beth Miller, associate athletic director
University
unnecessary payments.
Overcash said textbook makers print
new editions each year by making small
changes in layout to thwart the used book
market. But now the textbook makers
also are adding CD-ROMs and supple
mentary material to books that must be
wrapped with shrink-wrap. Student
Stores’ policy does not allow it to buy
back books with the shrink-wrap broken.
The textbook committee is proposing
that a check box be added to professors’
information packs so they can tell Student
Stores whether they need the supple-
ments. “If the pro
fessors say the stuff
isn’t necessary,
Student Stores will
be able to buy the
book back,”
Overcash said.
He also said the
committee has
other ideas in the
works, all of which
will be reviewed
by Student Congress on Oct. 30.
The committee hopes to implement
them in time for spring book sales,
Overcash said. “These are real things we
can get done,” he said. “They’re not just
pipe dreams.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
for non-revenue sports; Haus; and
Lorenzo Gallo of the athletic director’s
office, Kirschner said.
The players were not involved in the
process, he said.
The University Editor can be reached
atudesk@unc.edu.
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put a dent in this drought. “In North
Carolina for the first time, communities
are literally running out of water for
drought-related reasons,” Reese said.
And local leaders are taking drastic
steps to cope.
Officials in Cherryville recendy
hooked up a fire truck to a city hydrant
and pumped water from another munic
ipality.
Government buildings in downtown
Raleigh have installed rain barrels -
devices that channel runoff rainwater
from roofs into barrels. The water is
then used to water necessary vegetation,
said Mary Jo Cashion, interim public
information officer for the N.C. Dept, of
Administration.
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department does their own thing,” Page
said. “We need some kind of consisten
cy to make sure every new instructor is
at the same level of training.”
Page and Student Body President Jen
Damn initiated the program last spring,
fulfilling election promises to institute paid
preparation time for graduate students.
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Today, Charlotte officials will begin
imposing S3O to SIOO per-day fines for
people who water their lawns between 4
a.m. and 9 p.m. -a step up from its vol
untary watering restrictions, which
decreased water use by only 4 percent
UNC students have been encouraged
to limit showers to five minutes and to
turn off faucets while brushing their
teeth. Carolina Dining Services also is
conserving water by using disposable
plates and silverware.
But the governor has not yet issued
mandatory statewide restrictions.
“The state does not have the power to
require the cities to go to mandatory
restrictions without declaring a state of
emergency,” Reese said. “We haven’t
come to that point yet, but every day we
come closer and closer.”
Don Reuter, spokesman for
NCDENR, said the most important thing
Participants were paid SSOO for the
week in exchange for coming back to
school a week early.
The money for the pilot program,
$ 17,000 in total, was provided by Provost
Robert Shelton’s office as one-time start
ing money, forcing organizers to scram
ble for new funding sources for next
year. They are preparing a report to be
released next week detailing reasons to
permanently fund the program as part
of the center’s budget.
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is for agencies to use their better judg
ment Part of that, he says, comes from
educating people about wasteful practices.
“In some parts of the state, there are
people who think that it’s necessary to
water their lawns, while in other parts
people won’t have water to drink or to
bathe,” he said.
Above all, officials are looking for
hope in the months to come, although
they might be looking in vain. Reuter
said the months from August to October
historically have received less precipita
tion than other months.
“We’re telling these systems that might
have 30 days of water left to try to hold
out until the end of the year,” he said.
Today’s forecast calls for clouds, but
no rain.
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Ed Neal, director of faculty develop
ment for the CTL, said he is confident
that the program will be held next year,
but he admitted that the University’s
financial situation makes it more difficult
to find money.
He said, “It will be hard to ignore the
evaluations in the report that say how
beneficial it is.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
(02002 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
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