University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, November 9.1971
2.
Bookstore Prices, Practices Examined
BY STEVE SHERMAN
Kaneon Welter
Two times each semester students focus their attention on the Kansas Union Bookstore- time and book-selling time.
At those times students also focus their grips about the money, and they high and book buy-break prices are too low. Other complaints are heard about the money-grubbing capitalism of bookstore
Like any other topic bounced around as a topic of student conversation and consternation,
It may be speculated that the loudness of complaints is a more function of the length of the line in which the student is waiting than of actual student dissatisfaction. Some student grips are for real reasons, but we seem to spring from mistoneceptions about bookstore policies.
the facts tend to become obscured in rhetoric.
Bookstore operations include three stores: the main bookstore, the Oread Bookstore and the Oread Bookstore's account. The bookstore's accounts account for most book business. The Oread Bookstore contributes about one-eighth of total sales from the store and only a small part of total income.
THE OREAD BOOKSTORE was added in 1970 to provide access to books and textbooks. The Oread store reflects the tendency of college bookstores to increase their book stock and to adopt a trend to broaden courses.
The Daisy Hill store is seen as a substitute for bookstore services that would have been provided if a satellite union had been built. The new store is mostly as a service operation rather than a profit-making one.
Estimates indicate that this year the bookstore will sell $280,000 worth of goods to customers in order to income we go directly back to book store and supply wholesales. We also must pay for labor, rent, storage, advertising, data processing, legal and auditors' fees and other expenses.
Almost half of that operating in the institution may proximate 44 full-time and 15 part-time employees, many of whom are students or students'
ROUGHLY ONE-SIXTH of the operating income or $10,000 will fund directly to rent for new facilities and furnishings includes facilities and furnishings for the main bookstore and the laundry. These are janitorial services and trash removal, utilities (electricity, heating and cooling), maintenance.
People:
A XIX MAN ADVANCE PARTY from Peking flew into New York to set up a base for the Chinese Communist delegation to the United States.
ORANK *HENDERSON* was a major legal victory Monday when a military judge dismissed the most serious charge brought against him for his use of force in a charge contended that Henderson knowingly led when he told a Pentagon impatient he was positive he did not discuss the My Lai charges.
LEO ANDREW WIRTZ, a 49-year-old associate professor of electrical engineering at Kansas State University, was found dead in his office on the campus. The death was ruled an apparent heart attack.
Places:
SAIGON—U.S. planes attacked anti-aircraft sites in North Vietnam Monday for the second day in a new, one strike coming 180 miles north of the border in the deepest red this year. The Soviet news agency Tass reported North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners claimed they shot down two U.S. phantom jets over North Vietnam as was no word of such a loss from the U.S. Command in South Vietnam.
A survey made by Weichia State University indicates a dramatic increase in construction activity in nearly all KANSAS CITIES
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Prairie Village, proposed Monday, and the school district adopted as a recommendation to the 1972 session, that local school districts be empowered to A VOTE ON LOCAL INCOME TAXES as an alternative to property taxes' shouldering almost the entire district.
Things:
In a possible prelude to an election year battle over how to clean up the environment, the White House said it wants REVISIONS IN A STRONG WATER POLLUTION CONTROL BILL, written by Sen. Edmund S. Muskie.
The U.S. Army faces PROBLEMS IN OBITAINING AND kills the enemy while the Vietnam War is winding down, the Army's inspector wants to report.
Rental monies were paid to the university in the amount of $10,185 this year for storage facilities and a receiving room located in Memorial Stadium. A storage space and a storage space in the basement of Oliver Hall and space for the Daisy Hall Bookstore.
The idea for a campus bookstore began in 1910 when male students sold shares of stock for $10 per share in order to raise operating capital. However, the business was discontinued and the project was discontinued.
ON NOV. 27, 1945 the Kansan announced "at long Lost, a Chance to Save on Text-II However, he班ed up. However, lack of space prevented opening of a bookstore before September 1946. Students, parents and teachers bookstore antagonists, were glad to see the advent of a campus bookstore which would help to combat "hight" book prices of the
Later a book exchange was formed by the Women's Executive Council to buy back books and to sell them at a 10 per cent discount.
challenging the right of the State of Kansas to operate a business that competed with private enterprise at levels by court decisions that Rowlands did not have perimeter rights to bring to battle against the state.
Bookstore officials justify competition with private enterprise as a student service. They state that the bookstore stocks the textbook and supply services at a convenient on-campus location.
PRICES AT THE bookstore vary from lower than prevailing community prices on certain items to above prevailing prices on other items. Certain supply items can be purchased by the bookstore or at other priceies prices than the bookstore can obtain thus beating union prices.
Local merchants, especially bookellers, voiced objections but the campus bookstore opened. The controversy raged until the '50s when a local concern in town knowledged Bookstore. filed a suit
On supplies the bookstore makes a 20 to 40 per cent markup over actual cost. Art supplies, paper, pens and pencils are given a standard 40 per cent markup while bronze and silver items are marked up at the same rates and other related items are marked up from 30 to 40 per cent.
Jury to Get Gardenhire Case Soon
Both are the prosecution and defense in the Keith E. Garrett case, which will wrap up their cases by late this afternoon, according to Make America Great Again staff.
Gardenhire former KU student of shooting Harry K. Snyder of Topeka after the two scuffled in front of Watton Library last summer, hopes to obtain an aggrigated battery conviction against him.
In Monday's proceedings, Elwell produced six state witnesses including Snyder. All were witnesses to the shopping.
The state will conclude its presentation this afternoon and the jury will be heard, according to Fliess, said the jury must have heard evidence.
Election for Staff Heads Of Kansan to Be Nov. 29
By ROBIN GROOM
Kansan Staff Writer
Applications for the positu will be made available soon at the
Publications Probe Opens
The University D dally Kansan announced that elections for editor and business manager of the Kansan for next semester would be held on Monday.
Members of the ad hoc committee on All Student Council (A.S.S.) will debate deals University officials began their investigation of the statute as it applies to them. Members of the meeting Monday night.
Concern shown by the Student Senate toward the Kansan was cited as a reason for beginning a statute as it applies to the Kansan.
Joe Bullard, Lawrence senior.
Campus Bulletin
Career Seminar: Jayhawk Room, second floor. 9 a.m.
CNW Careers in Law, Business & Sciences; Jayhawk Room. 9 a.m.
French Dept. Meeting; Governors Room. 11 a.m.
Humanities Committee: Sunflower Room.
Cafeteria, 11:30 a.m.
Law School Committee; Alcove B.
Cafeteria; 11:30 a.m.
Administration; Alcove C
Cafeteria, 11:30 a.m.
Natural History Museum, Altope, D
Natural History Museum; Alcove D.
Cafeteria; 11, 30 a.m.
National History Museum. Above D.
Cafeteria, 11:30 a.m.
Spanish Table: Meadowlark Room.
Cafeteria, 12:30 p.m.
Social Welfare: Alcove A, Cafeteria, 12:30 p.m.
Reclamation Center: Oread Room, 1:30 p.m.
Foreign Studies Director Regionalist Room. 2:30 p.m.
6.45 p.m.
Model OAS: Pine Room, 6:30 p.m.
KU Synchronized Swim Team: Robinson
7
LAS-18 Staff Meeting; Council Room, 3:36 p.m.
Management Accounting Symposium
Dinner: Kansas Room, 6:15 p.m.
1-H Achievement Dinner: Ballroom, 6:30 p.m.
p.m.
Senate Finance: Oread Room, 7 p.m.
KU CRUNA: Regionalist Room, 7 p.m.
UWU - Doral Room, 2 p.m.
Pilhology Club: Room 305, 8 p.m.
Baptist Student Union: Pine Room, 8 p.m.
SUA Board: Governors Room, 7 p.m.
SUA Forum: Concerned Asian Scholars
Accounting Speakers: Governors Room
3:30 p.m.
Pep Club: Council Room, 6.30 p.m.
Law Wives Dressing Room: Curry Room,
6.45 m.
SIMS: Room 299, 7:30 p.m.
Young Demas: International Room, 7:30
KU Seabra: Council Room, 7:30 p.m.
Film Society: Woodruff Auditorium, 7:30
p.m.
said that the Kansan Board was scheduled to select the editor and business manager of the paper on Nov. 29.
Big B Room. 7:30 p.m.
Latin American Film: "Black God, White
Death." Dyche Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.
Senate Finance: Oream Room, 7 p.m.
KU CIRUNA: Regionalist Room, 7 p.m.
KU Media: Forung Room, 7 p.m.
Law Wives: Watkins Room, 7:30 p.m.
KU Seba: Council Room, 7:30 p.m.
However the A.S.C. Statute 5 it states that according to section 16 the three numbers, a clearly state who selects the editor and business manager of the company.
CSW "Browsing For Careers...". Kansas
Room, 9 a.m.
Room. 9 a.m.
Concerned Asian Scholars Panel. Forum
Room. 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Carlion Recital: Albert Gerkin 7 p.m.
Student Senate: Kansas Room, 7 p.m.
Glassman Flint, Woodruff Auditorium, 7:30 and 9 p.m.
RU Little Symphony: Swarthout Recital
RV Lute Symphony Swarthout Recta Hall. 8 p.m.
SUA Radical Forums Film "1984"
Dyche Auditorium. 8 p.m.
Decade 60 Lecture, Ivan Karp: Forum
Chapter 5 of A.S.C. Statute 5 states that the Kansan Board hall govern and regulate the University Daily Kansan and that
the Kansas Board is authorized to govern its activities through its own constitution, provided that such activities do not infringe upon the constitution and statutes of the state, and the protection of student rights.
However, in A.S.C. Statute 5,
Chapter 1, Section 10, it is stated
that members of the Publication Board, which is no longer in operation, is the duty to appoint and remove business
advisers, as provided in the statute.
Dean Says Jobs Open For Women
Women need to be made aware if the types of jobs available to them are a 'Talent dean' of women, said Marianne Taylor of a Taylor spoke at the first program if a 'Career Week' sponsored by Commission on the Status of Women.
Half of all professional women are employed in the areas of nursing, education, social work and science, according to Miss Tailor.
"Career Perspectives for the 70s and '80s" was the subject of the discussion that was attended by a small group of women.
"Although some 31 million women make up the current labor force," she said, "there is a lot of variation in the types of jobs they held."
However, Miss Taylor said that there has been a tremendous awareness of the types of roles in her company and that she effectively. She said that women should seriously consider employment in fields such as research, teaching, science sciences, which have been predominantly male-oriented.
According to Miss Taylor, virtually all types of careers are open to women.
"The importance and the pay
"the accorded to many jobs is still
much determined by whether
he is held by men or women," she
said.
She said too many women consider only clerical work because they have historically been from administrative positions.
Chapter 1, Section 12 states that in the selection of editors and staff of publications under its jurisdiction, the Publication Board shall follow this procedure: At least 30 copies of a particular publication to be made, the chairman of the board shall publish notice that the publication is in the University Daily Kansan and shall provide application forms at the office of the Dean of
offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women. A letter of qualifications addressed to the Board should accompany the application. Any University of student is eligible to apply.
Chapter 1, Section 11 states that the chairman of the Publication Board shall sit on the Kansan representative of the A.S.C.
The committee decided to ask Charles Oldfather, University attorney whether the constitution of the Kansas Board, through the board of trustees, allowed the board to choose the editor and business manager.
The board unanimously passed a motion to add a non-senator student appointed by the Student Senate to public publications until the senate arranges a permanent method for the appointment or election of a senator.
John House, chairman of the committee, scheduled the next meeting on Thursday p.m. in Thailand in the Kansas Union. The committee established the policy Monday that meetings were open to everyone.
The board also granted a request made by Dave Bartel, Kansan editor and Wichita staff member to supplement a 12-month magazine supplement.
The committee members said they hoped to get a ruling from Oldfather by Thursday, which would clarify the statute.
In answer to the board's question, "Where's the $40,000?" Carol Young, Kansan business manager of a graduate student, reported the channels that funds from the Student Senate to the Kanans go
The supplement's theme will be Haskell Junior Indian College Lawrence community, Haskell and the University of Kansas, Haskell
High prices of books coupled with low book buy-back prices give the consumer the feeling that someone is making great profits on the books that he buys. If this is true it is certainly not the store, which gets only a 20 per cent discount and the wholesale cost of books.
Furthermore, the 20 per cent book markup is not profit. From the bookmarking costs, the must pay for shipping and freight costs, for storage and handling costs one books arrive, for space left, or for and for personnel to sell them.
CONTRARY TO POPULAR rumor, the bookstore does not set book prices. Prices are set by the bookstore and may not be altered.
From O'Neil, the voucher goes to the KU business office to be signed by Frank Owen, assistant manager of Keith Nottheir, vice chancellor in charge of business affairs. From Nitgeber in Strong Hall, the voucher is sent to the State Department for the 'heck, Miss Young said.
After the Student Executive Committee votes, Moe Baloney will be Balloonier's junior and treasurer of the Student Senate initials a voucher for the funds.
Surprisingly to outsiders it is an old axiom in the book business that books must come from books themselves. Supplies are the profit items. In fact, book stores sell books and the bookstore gets caught with discontinued or obsolete titles in the
KANU Schedule Stereo 91.5 FM
At bookselling time, the book will be valued at $1.00, that it will pay 30 per cent of the new book value for all books that will be used at the University of Chicago.
TUESDAY
12:15 Noon Hour Concert Community
Calendar Room 430
UESDAY
Professional book buyers from the Nebraska Book Company buy books from students. Books that are passed on to the semester, are passed on to the bookstore at the same price at which they are obtained from that will not be used here in the next semester are sold elsewhere.
SUA CHRISTMAS FLIGHT New York to Luxembourg $165
12:15 Noon Hour Concert - Community
Choir
12:30 Martin Luther King Speaks
12:45 Russian Composers Horacio
Ballard Jr. James Bond
Thirties
All Afternoon
All Things Compared
Both Bird and Sea
KANU Special: Chamber Choir
Cleveland Orchestra Concerts: All
Program
13:15 TRE
BOOKS ARE PURCHASED at 50 per cent of the new book value. Therefore, students who purchased new books lose one-half of their investment while those who purchased used books (which sell at 75 per cent of the new book value) acquire one-third of their investment.
Final Payment Date Nov.18
Further Information at SUA Office
IUNA-3477
them at a specific red book price hoping that another university will need the book. In this way, book buyers provide the student with an outlet for books which he or she would like to sell in the academy community.
In spite of expenses, the bookstore does show a profit each year. This year's estimated earnings are $12,340.
All profits from the operation are used in three areas 1) payment of student tuition, vantedant student scholarships, 3) a reserve for bookstore expo
PATRONAGE REFUNDS are computed on the basis of total applicable sales (total sales in all departments, facilities and staff). The percentage of refund is decided by a committee of the union based on profits versus applicable sales. Refunds are declared semiquantitatively on a monthly basis to committee of the union based on profits.
Since an average of 20 to 25 percent of redeemable receipts are paid, the company computes the percentage of refund on the basis of 75 to 80 percent redemption thus allowing it to absorb a larger share of the profit.
Student Buys Books for the Semester
Then come the complaints
Another 2 per cent of total intake (about $15,000 per semester) is given to the scholarship fund for aged-6 students. The procedure was initiated three years ago when the Student Senate voted to appropriate this portion of total refunds for scholarships to be administered by the Department of Urban Affairs.
Students may claim patronage refunds by saving their blue sales tax and the proper times to the returns desk on the lower level of the building.
of patronage refunds and scholarship monies by the Union Executive Committee.
In spite of the continual student controversy over bookstore movies and above expenses monies over and above expenses are returned to students. Few schools in the country have program costs, which profits are added to student
Bookstore officials state that the refund system is much more viable than a system in which customers pay for profits are not totally predictable and in giving a flat discount on all items based on a guess as to its profits the bookstore could easily shoot or undershoot its percentage.
WHILE STUDENT discontent
items to be centered on Union
objection pieces it would be wise
to look at bookstores prices over the nation. The same situation is evident: 1) book prices are set by book publishers—they may seem cheap, but they cover the country; 2) books are not profit items; 3) book stores make their profits on supplies; 4) used book prices are derived from standard red book valuations and are uniform from area to area
It would therefore appear that Kansas Union Bookstore operations should not be held in mind when they parallel existing practices
If any issue is to be debated it should be whether or not the services provided by the institution are implications of state owned operations in competition with private business.
Recipes for Tight Budget
And so the frustrated epicure moves into an apartment where he will be able to assume the
5 4 3
Food is always subject to fraternity house. No matter how good the cook is, she simply cannot replace mom when it comes to dinner.
Taste is an essential part in fine cooking, but time, proper utensils
position of head chef. Unfortunately he discovers that being an epicurean does not automatically give one the talents of a Italian Cuisin or a chef in the restaurant of Neiman-Marcus.
Latin American Film
The Center of Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas will present the film "D Deus E O Diabo Na Terra Do Soll" which translated means "Black God, White devil." The film, which is based on a story by Carlyle Williams, is shown tonight at 7:30 in Dyne Auditorium. Admission is free.
Scuba Diving Club Meeting
The University Seaba Diving Club will hold its last formal meeting of the semester at 7.30 in the Council Room of the University.
Science Fiction Club
Students and faculty are invited to the organization meeting of a new science fiction club 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Oread Room of the Science Museum. Students will be invited to the science fiction film series for the spring semester, the possibility of visiting lecturers, group magazine subscriptions, a circulating library and special events.
Women Hold Career Week
Women faculty members from the school of Business, the School of Law and the science departments will be in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union today to answer questions and give information about our work. Week" sponsored by the KU Commission on the Status of Women.
Mary Sue Adam, Dallas junior,
calls her hamburger surprise
Glorified Hamburger I.
AT THIS POINT he begins to dress the hamburger up by adding soups, spices, and leftovers such as rice or noodles.
He begins to fix hamburgers and cheeseburgers until he can no longer digest or even stomach the thought of another one.
The recipe calls for: 1 lb. of hamburger; ¾ c. of milk; and ½ c. of hamburger in the bottom of a broiler pan, and the seasonings and then cover with the milk. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 350
Often the dishes are the same, but different students have given them various titles such as Bacon and Ham or Hamburger Supreme.
Brad Avery, Wiehita junior,
has two recipes that are inexpensive and tasty.
and money are also important factors. The average student spends about $450 per deal of time nor large amounts of money into his cuisine, and so he begins to experiment with the basic American food substance,
Miss Adam serves Gorlifed Hamburger II to guests. This version of her recipe calls for cream instead of milk.
Avery's macaroni dish calls for one can of macaroni and cheese and one-half can of corned beef hash. Combine the macaroni and hash into a sauce pan. Heat until the macaroni is golden and cheese if desired and serve.
Science Society Lecture
FOR TWO OR THREE PERSONS, Avery's Goulash Dinner is practical. The recipe calls for: 1 lb. ground beef; 1/2 can tomato soup; and 1 kg of your favorite vegetable. Brown the ham and bacon, then cook the soup and the vegetables. Summer for 20 minutes and serve
Cooking can be frustrating, if the novice does not have a planned budget. If he would take the opportunity to do something soon would realize that it is
Sigma Delta Epsilon, society for graduate women in science, will sponsor a lecture on "Conquest of Inner Space" by Evelyn Murrill at 7:30 tonight in 641 Malott Hall. All students majoring in sciences are invited to attend.
feasible to serve wine with dinner or to afford steaks on certain occasions without growing hungry for the rest of the month.
Communion M, Th, F, Sa at 5:15 p.m.
Trim any fat from the flank steak. Pound it well with mallet (or handle of a butcher knife) on a large spatula, then transfer to a metallic bowl and cover with marinade. Allow the meat to soak in this tenderizing liquid for 30 minutes, turning once or twice, and marinating, preheat the broiler.
**margery for the rest of the month.**
The Oread Book Store has sales on budgeted student **"The Impoverished Student's Book of Cookery, Drinkery and Keepery"** that hints on kitchen utensils as well as recipes which allow the reader to perceive a daily and live to tell about it."
REMOVE MEAT from the marinade and dry with paper towels. Apply instant tenderizer to the steak on broiler about three inches from the source of heat. Cook 8-10 minutes on each side. Spread the meat in a plate and slice it thin, against the grain of the meat, to increase tenderness. Top the steak with rosemary and onions and serve.
Meanwhile, fry onions and mushrooms in melted butter, adding salt and pepper; a dash of cayenne cream or a cayenne coastershire sauce while they cook.
Canterbury folk mass
now at 9 p.m. Tuesdays
"The College Cookbook" by Ruth Horowitz and Gertrude Khuner gives a variety of recipes that are reasonably reasonable to interest
THEIR RECIPE for London Broiled Flank Steak is an elegant yet moderately-priced meal. The steak is marinated in white wine (standard grade); 3 T butter; 2 onions, sliced; *4 lb fresh broth, stockpiled*; pancake dish of nutmeg; and 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce. the marinade consist of: *£ c. red sugar (burgundy, etc.)*; *2 T oil, tartar, minced*, and salt and pepper.
Fiery Furnace F, Sa opens 9 p.m.
1116 La.
Saturday
November 20-8:00 p.m.
(After KU-MU Game)
IN CONCERT
RARE EARTH
One Performance Only in Hoch
Tickets on Sale
in SUA Office
$2.50 - $3.00 - $3.50