University Daily Kansan, April 25, 1983
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competition with the schools and social services for money from the general fund is like putting the sharks in with the minnows," he said.
State Sen. Paul Feleciano, D-Wichita, said, "Why should we saddle the people of the state with an extra gas tax? We got called down here and are told this is it, take it to leave it. So we left."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said, "How universities are funded will not be determined by how much money is in the general fund. If we're going to protect the general fund and the highway fund, the only revenue the campus was willing to pass was a motor fuels tax."
Both Feleciano and Solbach criticized the Legislature for making the gas tax increase necessary by not passing the governor's other revenue proposals — repealing the sales tax exemption on used farm machinery and parts and increasing state income taxes for corporations by limiting the amount of deductions they could take for depreciation.
Books
handled by the employees of the store, Foster said.
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"We will even buy back books that will not be used again next semester," he said. "What students have to understand is that with our program we are the buyers for the students and then we turn around and try to be the sellers, getting them to buy the books that we have."
already paid for. Foster said he had lost money in the past because invariably the Nebraska company would not buy back all of their books.
"We get stuck with a lot of junk titles that way." Foster said.
way. Porter said
THE MANAGERS AGREED THAT students had little understanding of the problems of storage and costs that faced the bookstores.
sadguru and the Union Bookstore had only the lower level and three small storerooms to store books in for the entire campus, so it could buy back books only for a single semester.
"One of the things that makes the students the maddest is that a class will be offered only one
semester consistently over the years," Jewett said. "When they go to sell back the book they are told that they are out of luck, that the book won't be used again, even if it will be used the next semester."
To avoid this, Jewett said, students should wait until the end of the following semester to
"We'd like to take them, but honestly, we just don't have the storage space," he said.
HOWARD, OF MISSOURI BOOK Services,
said that in addition to the storage problems,
new editions of the textbooks were published
almost every two years, so the bookstores could
not take the risk of buying some books because a
new edition might be issued.
"This is an extreme example," he said. "But what happens if the professor dies?" Even if he has taught that class for years, there is no guarantee that his successor will use the same
Another example was reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education A book publisher issued a new edition of a business psychology
JEWETT SAID THAT THE UNION bookstore had an unofficial agreement that it would attempt to buy the used textbooks it needed from Missouri Book Services first. The company charges the Union 50 percent of the original price and then in turn the Union will sell the used book to the student for 75 percent of its original price.
text because the first edition contained a page about the talent of John De Lorean.
to the student of $5.00 but buy a used textbook for $7.50 and sell it back for $3.75. A new textbook that costs a student $10 will be bought back from the student for $5 and a student using the book next semester will pay $7.50 for it.
The stores will buy back most books unless they are damaged, Foster said.
"If the book is in shreets we will refuse to buy it back," he said.
BOTH STORE MANAGERS SAID that the price of repairing damaged textbooks had soared and it was no longer cost efficient to buy the books and have them rebound.
Foster said, 'Rebinding now costs between
Discrepancies also occur when books come with inserts and study guides, he said.
$1.50 and $2. For that amount of money it is too expensive to buy those back."
Foster said one astronomy text came with a packet in the back when it was new. If the student sells the book back without the packet he can only receive $9 for it instead of $13.
SOME BOOKS CAN BE SOLD for more than the regular 50 percent of the purchase price. Foster said.
Foster said that sometimes he had offered as much as 60 percent to students for those books.
"There is a Remington pharmacy text that sells for $7," he said, "and an architectural graphics book that sells for $9. We know that we will be able to sell those books used, easily."
15 percent to students for these books.
One other bookstore that buys and sells used books is J. Hood Bookseller, 1401 Massachusetts St.
John Hood, owner of the store, said that he bought back few textbooks, but unlike some buy-back programs, encouraged customers to bring in the more obscure books.
Protest of KU money draws criticism in South Africa
By YASHIWANT BIAGWANJI and ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Renoters
Staff Reporters
Withdrawal of U.S. investments from South Africa may do more harm than good to the majority black population in that country, a professor at the University of Kansas said
John Janzen, professor of anthropology, made his remarks in response to a protest march by the University of Texas at Austin.
But Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said yesterday that the association's position was the same as it had always been.
ABOUT 50 SUPPORTERS OF the group marched last Friday from a rally in front of Strong Hall to the law office of Olin Pet鱼ish and back, Pet鱼ish, who is chairman of the Kansas University Endowment Association's board of trustees could not be reached for comment.
Endowment Association officials have said in the past that security and profit were the main factors driving the investment.
As a non-profit, private corporation, the
Endowment Association is free of some state laws, such as the Kansas Open Meetings and Public Records acts. It has not been willing to openly discuss its policies with the South Africa group; said Laird Oke, a member of the group
THE ASSOCIATION INVESTS money in American corporations, including IBM, General Motors, Phillips Petroleum, Mobil Oil and ITT, all of which have major holdings in South Africa, Okie said.
Janzen, who spent almost five months last year in South Africa and other African countries, said, "I think it's rather naive to make a blanket
The protesters called for the withdrawal of U.S. investments, particularly those by the Endowment Association and other state organizations, from South Africa because of the country's system of apartheid, or racial segregation.
Several protesters carried posters bearing slogans, such as "Stop KU support of racist South Africa" and "Don't side with Aparthide." They brought the posters to Memorial Stadium at the end of their march and climbed a fence so that those attending the KU Relays could see
statement about all foreign capital that in some way is at work in South Africa."
"The level of understanding is quite low, if you advocate boycotting South Africa culturally or economically. It's like shooting a target with a shotgun." Janzen said.
should, but it is better than no statement at all, but if it's going to be made, why not make it focused and well-informed?"
JANZEN ALSO SAID THAT South Africa's investments in other countries were often overlooked by divestment advocates, who needed to explore other approaches to the
"Minor advances that might be made by a beneficent American presence — a patriarchial American presence — amounts to giving a few people a few goodies. They are trivial."
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics who attended the rally, said she understood Janzen's view, but disagreed with it.
"It is morally indebtable to support a society in which the majority is deprived of basic human rights."
Banks said the situation in South Africa was parasitical in that foreign investors preyed upon the black population of the country.
"You've got to take a moral stand," she said. "In an educational community, in which theoretically we're supposed to be training people to go out into society," she said. "You need the investment Association to be standing on the dollar sign on this issue, refusing to recognize the moral side of it."
BANKS SAID THAT SHE SPOKES as an individual and not as a spokesman for the group of protesters.
Edward Dutton, associate professor of social welfare and adviser of the group, said that blacks in South Africa were denied the rights to vote and to form unions.
"In South Africa, the blacks are the laborers, and the whites are the administrators," he said. "The blacks are denied citizenship on their own land. There is no justification for it except one of exploitation.
"The basic questions to ask are 'What's the ethical conduct by which the University conducts its business? What's the social responsibility of the University?' "
He said that even if the Endowment Association could not be persuaded to consider the
moral implications of its investments, it should look at their economic soundness.
A NUMBER OF AMERICAN universities have received greater profits from investing in other countries, after reducing or totally divesting their money in South Africa, Darton
Earlier this month, the Kansas House adopted a resolution that said the investment of public monies in corporations that supported South Africa was contrary to principles of social equality and human rights.
Dutton said that last year both houses of the Kansas Legislature passed different pieces of legislation similar to the House's resolution, but that differences between the two were never
recommended. Banks said that activities, such as the march and rally, made people more aware of the situation in South Africa.
None of the ten South African students now studying at the University took part in the march
Some of the students said yesterday that they were afraid to publicly display their support of any efforts to call attention to South Africa's oppressive government.
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