CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 9, 1992
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Bookstores to begin buying books back
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Jake Perlman, employee of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, assists Ryan Lothamer, Overland Park sophomore, as she sells her books back to the store. Jayhawk Bookstore, the two KU Bookshelves in the unions and University Bookshop, 1116 W. 23rd St., officially begin buying textbooks back today.
After a semester of reading, highlighting and homework problems, students can avenge their late-night studying pain by cashing in on their textbooks.
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, KU Booksbooks, in the Kansas and Burge unions, and University Bookshop, 1116 W. 23rd St., officially will be buying books back today and tomorrow and will continue to buy used textbooks through Dec. 21, the last day of finals.
All three bookstores have similar buv-back policies:
For textbooks that will be used by a KU instructor next semester, bookstores will pay about 50 percent of the book's new retail price — a little more if the book is in high demand, a little less if it is an older edition and will be used for one more semester.
The three bookstores will pay market, or wholesale, value for books that will not be used next semester at KU but are still in demand nationally through textbook wholesalers.
Out-of-date editions or textbooks that will not be used by KU instructors or wholesalers have no value to bookstores, and they will not buy these books. Jayhawk Bookstore will buy these books back if they were originally bought at the bookstore, but will pay less than market value.
- Lines are shortest first thing in the morning and about one hour before closing.
Bill Getz, assistant manager for KU Bookstore, gave the following advice to students selling back their text-books:
It is best to sell books back as early as possible because some book quotas are filled early. Bookstores usually only buy back the amount they estimate will be needed next semester.
Compare prices between book stores. Each bookstore offers a slight by different price on many textbooks
Sell textbooks back the semester the class is taken. Waiting a semester may decrease the demand for the book.
Derk Solko, Jayhawk Bookstore employee, said students might actually want to hold on to some textbooks. Books that will not be used next semester and subsequently not be bought back, could be used and needed next fall. Some classes are traditionally taught in either the spring or the fall, for example College Chemistry, Chem 125.
Cash for used books
The following bookstores are open longer hours during the end of the semester textbook buy-back period.
Jayhawk Bookstore
Source: Kansan staff research
KU committee schedules program review hearings
Melissa Young, textbook coordinator at University Bookshop, said students should watch their textbooks more closely to make sure they are not stolen. Textbooks are easily converted to cash during the book buy-back period.
By KC Trauer
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A University committee yesterday formed a tentative agenda for public hearings on program review recommendations.
The Academic Policies and Procedures Committee recommended that hearings for four restructuring recommendations and 12 of the 17 program deletions be conducted next semester.
The schedule is subject to approval by Senate Executive Committee with a two-thirds vote.
The University in November submitted a list of restructuring and discontinuance recommendations to the Board of Regents after a yearlong study. The hearings that will follow university community's chance to speak about their recommendations before a final report is given to the Regents next year.
The suggested scheduling of spring discontinuance hearings marks a break from usual procedures. University Senate code state that all discom-
tinance hearings must be conducted in the fall semester.
But 17 hearings in one semester would place a great burden on the ARPP committee, which conducts those hearings, said Susan Craig, committee chairperson. Also, the Kansas Board of Regents has asked that all Regents universities submit their final restructuring plans by Nov. 20, 1933. That places even more of a time restraint on the hearings schedule, Craig said.
The committee's recommendations call for hearings on the five other program deletions — Italian, comparative literature, humanities, atmospheric science and recreation — to be scheduled for Fall 1993.
Craig said those hearings were saved for fall because those seemed to be most controversial. But, she said, that did not mean that there might not be challenges to the other recommendations.
"These are not cut and dried." Craig said. "That's why you have hearings to figure out what the issues are."
The AP&P committee also identified four restructuring recommendations it thought needed further review:
Transfer of economics from College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to School of Business;
Transfer of computer science from the college to School of Engineering;
Transfer of art and music education, and music therapy from School of Education to School of Fine Arts.
Merge counseling psychology and educational psychology and research.
The committee members arrived at a decision after talking with faculty members in programs affected by the restructuring.
Those hearings will be conducted by ad hoc committee comprising faculty and students in the affected areas and administrators. Craig said committee members would be elected early next semester so that hearing committees could report back to SenEx by March 15.
Burglars target KU students' homes during winter break
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
Aah, winter break is just around the corner — a time for carol singing, tree trimming, eggnog drinking and gift giving.
And for burglar, knowing that most of the KU's student population will be gone for three weeks is a warm, fuzzy thought.
"Unfortunately, the holiday season brings out the best talents in thieves," said Lawrence police Sgt. Mark Warren.
But those who do not want to contribute to burglar's merry Christmas can often avoid doing so by taking common sense precautions.
One of the more obvious precautions is to simply take burglar-attracting items home, said LJ John Mullens, MUL police representative.
"If you have valuables like cameras, cash and jewelry, take them home with you," Mullens said. "It may be more difficult to do with a
stereo or a TV, but if someone is walking out of an unoccupied building carrying a stereo, people will be suspicious."
The possessions of apartment dwellers are especially at risk, because many apartment buildings with large student populations are almost vacant during holiday breaks, Warren said.
He stressed that it was important not to leave obvious signs that a building or room was unoccupied.
"The more obvious things are things like four or five newspapers piled up on the porch," he said.
And after a fresh snow, a lack of tracks leading to an apartment is a clear sign to potential burglaries that the apartment is empty.
Asking the post office to hold one's mail, having newspapers picked up and arranging for someone to check frequently on apartments or rooms are good preventive measures, he said.
Warren also said it was important to pull the blinds on windows and use deadbolt locks on doors, if possible. For those who want to spend the money, electronic timers are available that will turn on radios and lights at specified times, giving the impression that someone is home.
In general, University residence halls are safe during breaks because of the presence of staff and maintenance personnel, Mullens said.
He said the most recent winter break burglary reported in a residence hall was in 1989, when several rooms were entered in Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Mullens said that KU police officers generally had more time during breaks to do security checks. And Warren said that Lawrence police tried to keep an eye on apartment buildings by doing foot patrols and unmarked car patrols.
Lewis Hall residents to air complaints about 'insensitivity'
Kansan staff writer
By J.R. Clairborne
A representative for Lewis Hall residents who are unhappy because of early morning construction noise will meet today with Ken Stoner, director of the student housing department.
The meeting will address the insensitivity residents think the department has shown in handling their complaints about noise from the drilling and jackhammering during the hall's cafeteria renovation.
Tiffany LaMothe, second-floor resident and Kansas City, M. sophomore, said she would present to Stoner a petition signed by more than 160 residents, as well as written statements from residents about incidents resulting from the noise.
The petition states that "conditions such as the drilling and jackhammering that have been going on for months from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Lewis Hall are not conducive to learning or living and are unduly forced on the student residents of the KU housing department."
The petition asks that the department either
release residents from their contracts if they elect to move off campus or reduce the residents' rate next semester for those choosing to remain in the hall in exchange for the disruptions the construction noise has caused since mid-September. The residents said they have been awakened as early as 6:30 some mornings.
"We're just trying to get a peaceful environment, that's all." LaMothe said.
LaMothe also said that because of the vibrations from the jackhammer, residents have had books, pictures and figurines fall from
wall shelves and break.
"Stuff is constantly moving and falling around here," she said. "Who's going to pay for it?"
Along with the loss of personal items, residents said that they have had to change their
"This is our home," said Michelle Kumm, a sixth-floor resident and Leawood sophomore. "We are paying for a living environment that we cannot live in."
Lockers sind they app hadt slept through alarm
Lockers mised they app hadt slept through alarm
been unable to hear their phones ring during construction.
Karen Jamison, mother of Anna Butler, a second-floor resident, waited in her daughter's room one morning to take her home to Olathe after class.
Instead of getting in the quick nap she wanted after her early morning drive, she was run out of the room by the noise.
"I left there with a headache from all of the pounding and vibrations," she said. "I was only there for a couple of hours. I don't know how those kids have stood it this long."
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