University Dally Kansan
Thursday. July 26. 1973
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Students Get More for Books That'll Be Used Again
Bv LYDIA BEEBE
ansan Staff Writer
Getting "ripped off" at the bookstore has long been a complaint of KU students as they sell back their books at the end of each semester.
Pocketbook Time at Kansas Union Bookstore
Charles Bills, Assistant Manager of the Union Bookstore, would not confirm an exact figure, but he said it was "quite a bit."
KU students could save as much as $25,000 a year in selling books back if more faculty book orders were placed earlier, according to Nancy Archer, student body vice president, at a recent Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx) meeting.
"I CAN GIVE you figures in terms of one book," Bill said. "If a book is $10 new, and if we have an order for it, we will buy it back for $5. If we don't have an order for it, we'll buy it back for the national retailers price, which would be $2 to $5.
Deadlines for book orders are the end of March for the fall semester and the third week in October for the spring semester. This amount of time is necessary in order to estimate class size, check stock, determine how many used books can sell and try to sell them, or need help from national wholesellers in addition to student buyback. To Billions.
"We just don't have enough used books," said Bills. "If we got orders on in time, we could increase the used book proportion in the store. More students would sell their books back, and we would be in the running longer with the national wholesalers."
AT THE END of each semester, representatives of a national book wholesaler come to the bookstore to buy new books for 20 to 30 cents the cost of the new book, Bills said.
Currently, 20 to 25 per cent of the total book sales at the book store are used books, he said.
If the bookstore has an order for a book to be used the next semester, the student gets 50 per cent of the cost of the new book. The student heads a head of a national wholesaler, Bills said.
IF THE ORDER for the book comes in late, the bookstore has to purchase used books from a book store.
"What we buy them for is the same as what we pay the students, but with students, the prices are lower."
Shipping costs for the bookstore last year were $21,000.
"KU students are better off if we have a very good buyback from the students because there's less overhead (especially shipping costs) for the bookstore. This helps the students because the money goes back to the student body." Bills said.
THE BOOKSTORE is a non-profit establishment. Any profit over expenses
Space, Space, Who'll Get Space?
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be contingent upon receipt of funds requested by the University in the legislative requests for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, according to a letter to Metzler from James Roser, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs.
If Dykes approves the recommendations of the committee, the School of Social Welfare will use the present Mental Health Clinic to house a social agency, which will be published by the school, according to Bradford Shearer, associate dean of the school.
The school puts a great deal of emphasis on students having some kind of field experience, Sheafer said. But there are so few agencies in Lawrence that students must be involved in agencies at Topeka, Wichita, Kansas, Leavenworth, Emporia and Manhattan.
Shearer said the opportunity to make available more field placements in the UK is promising.
"THE MENTAL HEALTH Clinic offers us the most beautiful opportunity to create a positive environment by get an advisory board from the community, evaluate where there are gaps in the social services in Lawrence and then begin to work with the agency, using a very few faculty members."
guidelines of a consulting management firm."
NONE OF THE EIGHT field instructors, who in addition to field work teach a class, have offices. There is no place for them to contact the supervisors or can contact them for personal interviews.
Sheafar said that the school could grow to an unlimited number. There are now four times the number of applicants than can be accepted this fall for the graduate program.
Sheafer said the growth of the school has far surpassed the space that it now has on the third floor of Blake Hall. A prospective faculty member may accept a position at other university because the school cannot give him a private office, Sheafer said.
The School of Social Welfare would use the space in Watkins Hospital for offices, a video tape laboratory, seminar rooms, a resource center and a student lounge.
Sheafer said he didn't know what kind of social service the school would establish and that it was important not to start with a number of preconceived ideas. To go out and to identify community needs and then to think how and what kind of service to establish is a valuable experience for the students, he said.
The School of Social Welfare is sometimes not very visible on campus, Sheafer said, because it does not have a building of its own where an identity can be established.
“This is a very important thing for us. I’m personally very pleased that the University has recognized that kind of status,” he said.
“Assignment of a social welfare building
says that we are recognized and appreciated for our contributions."
Departments wishing consideration as candidates for the Watkins Hospital building first submitted a proposal to the committee. The department included projections to 1980 and covered
Chairmen of the departments of an- anthropology and occupational therapy could not be found in any of these countries.
such things as student enrollment, faculty growth, the number of students applying for admission.
"WEDID'T PUT down what we thought we needed because it would look good," Edith Black, administrative assistant, said. "Rather we based our projections on the
American Indian Receives Ford Fellowship to KU
Francis Levier, a 1973 graduate of Hofstra University, has been awarded a Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship for 1973-74 and will attend the University of Kansas for graduate study in educational administration.
Levier, a native of Moundridge, the first American Indian to receive a Ford Foundation Fellowship to attend KU. He earned his bachelor's degree from Education's department of administration foundations and higher education to work toward a master's degree in educational sciences. His major was social science at Hofstra, who also served a bachelor of arts degree in education.
Education Prof to Teach In Campus Afloat Program
in brief
Med Students to Towns
Continuing Ed Gets Funds
and prepared many of the supporting properties for exhibits in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, died last week in Lawrence. He was 88.
KU Museum Artist Dies
The man who painted the backgrounds
To show young physicians that opportunities to practice specialized medicine and other advantages exist in smaller cities, the School of Medicine has begun a program of sending physicians in residency training to two-month assignments in surgery or internal medicine to smaller centers. The programs also that concentrate doctors in large cities.
The grant will fund a team to work with the other colleges and universities in Kansas, to aid them in setting up their own institutions and continuing education programs.
KU Museum Artist Dies
Samuel Dickson, retired staff artist, had his views viewed by many thousands of visitors every year, although his contributions remained anonymous.
The Department of Community Development in the Division of Continuing Education has received a $12,000 federal grant to set up a training program for community service and continuing education.
By CONNIE DeARMOND
Office Needs Assistant
A KU professor will set sail this September on the Pacific and Northwest programs in progress.
Countries and cities being visited on the Pacific basin trip are Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and South Pacific islands. The tour will leave from San Francisco.
James Hilleheim, professor or education, will be sailing with his family aboard the ship. The Pacific basin trip is located in southern California, which is located in southern California.
Kansan Staff Writer
OTHERS MAY GO on the trip for the travel experience alone, without designing their course of study to fit the countries they are visiting.
World Campus Afloat allows students to study various subjects while aboard ship and lets them see the world at the same time.
Hillesheim said that many students studied subject matter were related to the project, and would visit.
HILLESHEIM, WHO will teach philosophy on the cruise, said that from 400 to 500 undergraduate college students were accepted each semester. Hillesisheim's wife is in photography as an undergraduate in Japan, will work with the ship's photographer.
Hillesheim said that the ship would stay in each port for at least three or four days.
Students who take the voyage will be able to get college credits that will be accepted by the university.
The trip, once known as the University of the Seven Seas, is now called the World Climate Summit.
KU Profs Write Text
A preliminary edition of the book was in Journalism 141 (Advertising Media Strata).
The Office of University Relations will have a staff vacancy on Sept. 1 for a part-time graduate assistant. Applicants may call John Conard, director of University Relations for interviews or information concerning the job.
Advertising Media Sourcebook and Workbook, a new book by Lee Young, associate dean of journalism, Donald Jugenhemer, assistant professor of journalism, and Arnold Barban, University of Illinois professor, will be published this fall.
The certificates were awarded in appreciation for outstanding public service in the use of mass communications resources and in promoting the importance of highway and traffic safety.
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KANU Receives Awards
and improvements is returned to the student body in patronage refunds or some other form of compensation.
KANU will also be recognized for an outstanding in the 25th annual Alfred Kunz Prize.
John Alexander, associate professor of history, has published a monograph concerning the exploits of a fugitive Cossack from Montana. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia,
Certificates of Merit have been awarded to KANU radio station and to Billy Brant, executive producer, by the Highway Users Federation.
Alexander has visited Russia on several occasions and is the author of one other book-length monograph, "Autocratic Politics in a National Crisis." He is presently working on a history of the Moscow plague of 1771.
"Every bookstore seems to have that pattern. Our orders are not out of line with object sizes."
"For a school this size, we have one of the biggest student buybacks, which means that the student body here receives more for less than more per unit but more overall," he said.
Hamilton said that students could use their own cards or those of their parents from the school.
The monograph is entitled "Emperor of the Cossacks."
Ron Hamilton, compilter, said Wednesday that the University would accept both Master Charge and BankAmericard as course materials for tuition and fees for the fall serpent.
Bills says that problems with late orders were not unique to KU.
Prof Writes on Russia
ALTHOUGH BILLS says he thought students at KU were better off than those at other universities, there's room for improvement.
"Something is being done. We're talking with University officials about getting the orders in on time. I think it's a matter of educating the faculty, since many of them don't realize the costs involved, especially for the student," he said.
Increasing demands to pay tuition and
in charge basis prompted this action by the
He said he hoped to see improvement by the spring buyback.
Fall '73 Tuition Can Be Charged
The F. Glenn Austin Memorial Fund has been established to recognize outstanding academic achievement in the departments of art and philosophy. Austin was a graduate of KU.
The issue was on the agenda at the last Council of Deans meeting July 16. A memorandum written by Archer was published in a journal of importance of getting orders in on time.
"WHAT WE'RE trying to do is get the message out of the importance of early book orders," said Ambrose Saricks, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Saricks said the deans, working through department chairman, were urging faculty members to get orders in on time. He said that in the past faculty members had his thesis as a convenience to the bookstore and had not realized its financial implications.
An initial award of $100 will be made in the 1973-74 academic year.
The issue will be followed, he said, at the next Council of Deans meeting Aug. 20.
Austin Fund Established
"I think when the situation is clearly
Other departments are not suited to using used books, Archer said. Two examples she cited were engineering, where most books are in hardcover; reference because of the technical information involved, and liberal arts and sciences, where most books are small
Bills said that some late orders couldn't be avoided since departments didn't always know who would be teaching specific courses by the book order deadline.
Bills says the bookstore cannot now buy
books unless they have an order for them.
IF ORDERS are not turned in early enough, the bookstore is powerless, Archer
Students may obtain their own cards from area sponsoring banks.
"One time the bookstore lost $5,000 assuming that certain books would be used."
"But this does cost the students money," he said.
presented to the faculty, the faculty will respond." Saricks said.
"BUT THERE has to be the recognition. I think, that in some cases book orders have to be a little late for legitimate reasons — and new books to come out, etc." Saricks said.
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