Wednesday, October 10. 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Emporium Called Student Disservice
BY JEFFREY STINSON
Kaman Staff Reporter
Students usually lose money by selling their textbooks through the Emporium bookstore instead of selling them to the bank, which would cost Joel Goldman, Shwenye Mission junker.
A study conducted by Goldman which was released yesterday indicated that students lost an average of 39 cents a book by selling the books through the Emporium.
"The Emporium is doing a disservice to the student because of the student's ignorance," said Goldman, who also is a senior Senate Finance and Auditing Committee.
The Emporium has been criticized recently by the finance minister, who said it is being bwn a prof
Kathy Allen, Topeka senior and director of the Emporium, answered the criticism
by saying that the Emporium wasn't a print making business but a student service.
PETE KANATZAR, Topeka senior and member of the finance and auditing committee, said yesterday that Goldman's fund was a waste of Student Senate money.
"I haven't talked to Joel and I haven't looked at the statistics," Allen said yesterday when contacted and told about the Goldman study.
"I have nothing to say except the Emperor will continue to do its job."
Goldman said the study had been made from a sample of 50 textbooks that could be found in both the Emporium and the Kansas Union bookstore. He said the sample had been representative and the margin of error in the final result had been only one per
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THE SUA SUPER 8 FILM WORKSHOP will have an organizational meeting at 7:30 tonight in Parlor C of the Kansas Union. Approximately $1,000 worth of film equipment is available to workshop members.
THE KANSAS WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS will meet at 7:30 tonight at the American Baptist Center, 1829 W. 19th St. The meeting is open to the public.
THE SUA CANOE COMMITTEE will have a meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union for anyone interested in canoeing.
ROBERT BAKER, concert organist and dean of the School of Sacred Music at the New York Union Theological Seminary, will present a guest recital at 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall. His program will include works by Carlos Franck, G. Patrick Murray, Percy Gohlbein and Gleb Myron Myrons, Max Reger and Johann Bach.
CHINESE STUDENTS at McColm Hall are sponsoring a gathering at 9 tonight in
the McCollum caterafe. The students will celebrate the National Day of the Republic of China Double Tenth with a slide show, Chinese art and snacks.
AN ALL CLASS TUG-OF-WAR, sponsored by the Board of Class Officers, will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Potter Lake. Fifty members from each class (25 men and 25 women) will be admitted, winning class will be admitted free to the Big Blue Beer Blast Friday night.
'THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN HIGHER EDUCATION' will be the topic of an open forum at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in Room 100, Smith Hall.
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ROLFING, a method of deep muscle massage, will be demonstrated by Tom Puthe, of Boulder, Colo., at 8pm tomorrow. The event will be held at Building, 128 Oread St. Admission is $1.
profit by selling his book through the Emporium was to price it first at the Kansas Union Bookstore and then at the Emoryium, Goldman said.
The Emporium displays the students' books and then claims 15 per cent of their collections.
The Kansas Union bookstore buys used books at 50 percent of the books' original prices. It marks up the book for resale to 75 per cent of the original price.
To sell a used book at the Emporium, Goldman said, a student must price it at less than the Union's selling price of 75 per cent of the original value. If the book is priced higher than the Union price, students wouldn't pay patronize the Emporium, he said.
For a student to gain an advantage at the Emporium, he must price a book at more than the 50 per cent of its retail value, which is often the lowest value. The greatest advantage can be gained by pricing a book at slightly less than 75 per cent of its retail value and barely unreasonable.
Goldman said that most students didn't price their books within the narrow "profit margin" between 50 and 75 per cent of a book's price, and they paid, they money by using the Erpromptor.
Goldman gave an example of how a
student lost money by selling a book through the Emporium without checking beforehand to see how much the Union would have paid for it.
"The individual who brought this book in, priced it at $," he said. "It would have brought $6.25 at the Union because the price now was $12.50."
"This particular student lost $2 (after the Emporium deducted its 15 per cent) by selling it through the Emporium. I doublebled the amount and this book belonged to Kathy Allen."
Kanazar said that as of Monday, the Emporium had made only $5.99 in net profit for the past three weeks. The Emporium spent nearly $180 in salaries during that time.
Kanatzar also charged that the Emperor hadn't been selling artwork on consignment and conducting poetry readings.
Allen said Sept. 6 that the bookstore soon wasjoining to expand into poetry readings and book fairs.
She said yesterday that plans were still drawn up for expansion into those offices.
A proposal that would close the Emporium if volunteer help couldn't be found soon to staff the store will be presented to the senate Oct. 27.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday appointed a 13-member task force to make recommendations for improving the efficiencies of the service's security to communities and the state
The Task Force on University Outreach was charged by Dykes to evaluate program resources for the college program, off-campus course of ferrings, easy-access courses, and other programs designed to make the University's resources available to persons or families.
Dykes Names Task Force
Appointed to the task force were
Honorable McGregor, proxies of
otany and argan forests; Sam Adam,
Sam Adams.
Vivian McCoy, director of student services, extramural independent studies center; Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Social Work at the Society professors history; Gary Smith, associate dean of women; Gary Wamsley, associate professor of political science.
Ross Copeland, associate director of the board of child research; Robert Foster, assistant professor of education; associate professor of law; Nancy Harper, director of the Curriculum and Instruction Department.
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associate professor of journalism; Ernest Angino, professor of geology and civil engineering; Jon Blubaugh, associate professor of speech and drama.
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