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Wednesday, April 24, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Bookstore Explains Text Shortages
Kansas Staff Reporter
Bv ALAN MANSAGER
Late textbook orders by instructors often cause slow shipments and text shortages, and students suffer the most, according to the manager of the Kansas Union Bookstore.
"The student gets 25 per cent or less (when he resells a used book) if the store doesn't know that text will be used again." Bills said yesterday. "If the store knows the book will be reused, the student gets up to 50 per cent of the new price."
the only way the store can know whether the text will be used again, Bills said, is if it contains an error.
HE SAID that he couldn't buy used books during the trip to the wholesaler in Lincoln if he didn't have the orders beforehand or ordered used books from the wholesaler.
"I don't fill all my needs from buying used books back from students, and so I must buy them," she says.
"Also," Bills said, "our operating expenses are about 21 per cent. We make 20 per cent on new books. This means that used books are very necessary."
BILLS STRESSED THE importance of having instructors order their books in
"Books arrive seven weeks before classes," he said. "If the instructor orders five weeks before, I can't guarantee it will arrive in time."
He said 40 per cent of the usual book orders were in.
"At no time is it to the store's advantage to run out of book ahern for economic for publication."
Bills attributed late orders to many things.
"Many departments can't assign assistant instructors before they know whether they can pay them," he said, "and they choose books if they can't offer the course."
HE SAID OTHER reasons were that instructors waited for new textbooks from the publisher or just forgot to order them. Gerhard Zuber, professor of English, said orders to the bookstore were sometimes due to an unrealistic deadline for orders
Growth Policy Subject of Talks
KU will be the host of a symposium on state growth policy tomorrow in the University Building. The purpose of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas between scholars and practicing professionals concerning growth policy
The sessions will be sponsored by the institute for Social and Environmental Studies.
The symposium will feature a keynote address at 4:45 a.m. and a lecture at 7:30
A morning panel will be moderated by Herman Lujan, associate professor of political science and director of the Institute for Social and Environmental Studies. The panel will discuss growth policy and state planning.
An afternoon panel session will begin at 2 p.m. and will be moderated by Charles H. Johnson, the principal architects of Urban Design. It will discuss the implications of state growth policy planning to cities.
The topic of the evening lecture will be Interpretation of State Growth, Policy Change and Economic Resilience.
Registration for the symposium will begin at 9 a.m. and will be followed by a welcoming address by Delbert Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
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citizens received equal protection under the law.
He said he and his staff had worked for five years to convince the Kansas Legislature to pass the Small Claims Court Procedure and the Consumer Protection acts.
The Small Claims Court Procedure Act establishes throughout Kansas small claims courts, where citizens can try claims of less than $300 for a filling fee of $.
The Consumer Protection Act is designed to protect the consumer from fraudulent
"There is no movement in America more important to the free enterprise system than the consumer protection movement," he said, and "I am not talking about wishy-wishy licensing laws or more unnecessary paperwork for the honest businessman.
"The schedule didn't have to be in until the 28th of March, and the bookstore deadline was the middle of March," he said. "Some instructors didn't even know what day it was."
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"THEY ARE OFTEN misordered or programmed badly," he said.
Bills said that late order submissions were a problem every year but that "better relations with the faculty are improving the situation."
There are many other factors behind the exxton shortages each semester, accosting the department.
"There isn't another type of store in the country that deals with the logistical aspects of supply chains."
He said that the bookstore handled a quarter of a million books each semester and that sometimes shortages resulted in estimate to the number of books to order.
"ON THE AVERAGE, enrollment estimates are 90 per cent high than actual birth rates."
Bills said past records of orders by instructors usually were good indicators of whether the instructors tended to order books or book orders. On the average, he said instructors order 15 per cent more books than they need. From those records, the booksure determines whether to order books from the wholesaler than are requested.
He said that ordering too many books could be financially detrimental.
"We spend several thousands of dollars a semester in shipping fees alone," he said. "If we ordered more than we could sell, it (store) would have to be subsidized."
TEXT SHORTAGES also result when a publisher runs out of books, he said.
"Sometimes they tell us right away when a book is out of stock or out of print," he said. "Other times the information comes to an invoice with another shipment."
"That is the worst possible thing that could happen," he said. "It means the inference that you are wrong."
Delay is also a big factor, according to Bills.
poor communication with the publisher.
He said the biggest cause of delay was
Shipping time is another cause for delay. He said it took about four weeks for a shipment to arrive at his doorstep.
According to Bills, late arrival also results when a book is rendered obsolete. That can happen when a new edition becomes available and an instructor changes editions or texts.
Igor Stravinsky Called Modern. Individualistic
Craft said he frequently took Stravinky on automobile ride around the California country side until Stravinky would have an idea of what to do. He then rush back to Stravinky's house, where
he would out his ideas on paper.
From Stravinsky's diaries, it is apparent that Stravinsky was out of money during the 1948. Craft said, and that he wrote music for movies and for commissions to make
It was at that time, according to Craft, that Stravinsky was interviewed by the casting department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer himself in a movie about George Gershwin.
Stravinsky, a Russian-born composer who became an American citizen in 1945, was famous for his ballets, operas, and concertos. He died in 1971 at age 89.
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