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Emerald U published Monday through Friday daring tba i
except Nov. 16, 25 through 30, Dec. 7 through 9, 11 through Jan. 4
through 29, May 3, and 31 through June 2, with isauea on Nov. 21,
the Student Publication* Board oi the University of Oregon. En
matter at the port office, Eugene. Oregon. Suhecription ratea: $5 par
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Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to
rapmmt the of the ASUO or of the Univeriity. Unsigned editorials are written by
ffie editor; initialed editoriala by the associate editors.
Those Misguided Squirts
Why doesn’t the Emerald receive subsidies from the Uni
versity?
That’s what some students have been asking, in the light of
the fact that decreased enrollment, increased printing costs, and
difficulty of taking up with the slack with advertising all mean
that a four-page Emerald and noon distribution are still with
us.
We’d like to offer a partial answer, by telling about what
has been going on in another state, Georgia. As related by the
Associated Collegiate Press:
“The editors of the Red and Black, 60-year-old undergrad
uate newspaper at the University of Georgia, are in hot water
because of a series of editorials on racial segregation in ed
ucation.”
“When the Red and Black began printing things like It is
as plain as the red flag in Russia that continued segregation
and suppression can and will pause the death of democracy
by the hands of its own leaders,’ another newspaper editor
and a powerful member of the state board of regents threat
ened the withdrawal of state financial support.”
! The fact of the matter is that financial support means po
tential control. At Oregon, the University does not support the
campus newspaper, and does not run it in any rigid way. Of
course, the student publications board selects the editor and
business manager, and makes broad policy for production of the
paper, but it doesn’t try to determine what will be printed in
the paper.
(The University of Oregon administration, we further believe,
has no desire to control the Emerald. So there isn’t any press
ing problem.)
Some people suggest that we should be practical about this
thing, and accept subsidies. In the first place, however, we don’t
have any reason to believe that the administration is clamoring
to force greenbacks down our throats. Secondly, we prefer to
remain unsusceptible to potential limitation.
The other editor mentioned by the ACP, Regent Roy V.
Harris, editor of the Augusta Courier, warned the student
newspaper that “the people of Georgia would not be willing
to support a university which advocated mixing and mingling
of the races.” He said state money which provides the Red
and Black with two-thirds of its operating funds would be
withheld unless the editors stopped “their juvenile damn
foolishness.”
But the Red and Black retaliated by saying Harris was trying
to “squelch our fundamental right of freedom of the press.”
Wrote back Harris, with.brilliant relevance:
“Now there is no question of freedom of the press involved.
The question ... is whether or not the board of regents will be
dictated to by a little handful of sissy, misguided squirts who
have just enough knowledge to think they know it all. Every
time I see one of these little sissy boys hanging around some
college, the more I think every one of them ought to be made
$o play football. What we need today is more he-men and fewer
sissies.”
“Call ‘Vsual Aids’ and see if they have a movie they can show my
class—I just don’t feel like lecturing today.”
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University Co-op Discloses
Book Costs, Resale Prices
by Laura Sturges
Emerald Editorial Aniatant
If you are an average Oregon
student, you walked into the Uni
versity Co-op last week, picked up
four books and handed over $15.
That’s the picture presented by
Jerry Henson, Co-op manager.
“Books cost the Oregon student
about $50 a year,” Henson said.
Over half of this is paid in Sep
tember when the student begins
his sequence courses, Henson add
ed.
Depending on the courses he is
taking, textbooks cost the student
between $25 and $30 in September,
according to the manager. Costs
for the rest of the year run about
$10 or $15 a term, he said.
50,000 Books
Last year students bought 50,
000 textbooks at the co-op which
chalked up $170,000 in book sales.
During fallterm alone, the co-op
sold 26,000 textbooks, Henson said.
If you think the average cost
of books is high, look at the law
major. He sometimes buys $120 in
books each year, according to
Henson.
Highest-priced books on the Co
op records are the more scientific
and technical texts. Gray’s "An
atomy,” traditional text for medi
cal students, costs $14. But books
also run as low as 25 cents for the
small, paper-bound literature edi
tions.
Copies Filed
Although copies of many text
books are filed in the library, most
students buy their own copies,
Henson said. Many recover part of
their book costs by re-selling their
books to the Co-op at the end of
the term.
A student can get back as much
as half the original cost of a book
if the book is in good condition
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Pre-dent Students
To Have Meeting
A meeting to advise prospective
students of dentistry will be held
Thursday at 8 p. m. in Science 30,
Dr. A. H. Kunz, chairman of the
Pre-medical - Pre-dental advisory
committee, has announced.
The admissions committee for
the University dental school in
Portland and its chairman, Dr.
Ernest A. Hurley, will conduct in
terviews for admission to that
school all day Friday. About 25
or 30 students are expected to
turn out for these interviews,
Kunz said.
Applications to dental schools
and qualifications for the study of
dentistry wiU be discusser Thurs
day.
KWAX Appoints
4 To New Staff
Four new staff appointments for
winter term have been announced
at KWAX by Station Manager
Paul McMullen.
Taking over new duties will be
Dick Lee, freshman in liberal arts,
chief studio engineer; Ken Whittle,
senior in economics, chief an
nouncer; Laura Harper, junior in
speech, music librarian, and Jean
Smith, sophomore in liberal arts,
office manager.
and will be used again on campus.
The Co-op buys back only those
textbooks that professors will re
quire in their classes again. If
they decide on newer editions, the
Co-op will not take back present
copies in use.
Occasionally the Co-op will buy
back books that will not be used
on campus the next year. After
getting quotations from used
bookdealers, the Co-op will pay
students the dealers’ prices for
designated texts.
Professors keep the same book
for their classes about three years,
Henson said. This period was
somewhat longer during World
War II when new editions were
scarce.
History Least Turnover
"Probably history courses have
the least turnover in new books,"
Henson remarked. History texts
may be continued longer than
usual unless the course deals with
modern times, he said.
Students can often cut their
textbook costs by buying used
books. The Co-op sells these at
three-fourths of the regular price
— a customary procedure in West
coast college bookstores. Although
this is a 25 per cent mark-up
from the half-price or less paid
the student who sold the book
back to the Co-op, the margin of
profit shrinks after overhead is
paid, according to Henson.
Rental of books, common in
many high schools, is rare in
American colleges and, at Oregon,
there is no setup for students to
rent books. Students at OCE at
Monmouth can rent many of their
textbooks for $1 a book per term.
This reduces their book costs to
about $5 a term, as compared with
the average of $24.
Exchanges Exist
Student - run book exchanges
exist at the University of Chicago
and University of North Carolina,
but Oregon has no such system.
Do textbooks bought at the Co
op cost less than at downtown
bookstores? Not directly, Henson
said. However, Co-op members
receive a 10 per cent dividend at
the end of the year on all Co-op
purchases, including books.
The Co-op buys texts at the pub
lishers’ list price, less 20 per cent,
but payment of freight charges re
duces part of this saving, accord
ing to Henson. The bookstore se
cures its books from nearly 100
publishing houses in the country.
Some texts, primarily for lan
guage classes, come from as far
away as Madrid and Far is.
A number of Oregon professors
have written their own textbooks
and the Co-op carries these when
they become required books for
classes, Henson said.
Founded In 1020
Oregon students have bought
their textbooks at the campus Co
op since 1920 when the store was
founded as a private corporation.
An ASUO-run store was previous
ly started in 1918, but was liquida
ted that year.
The setup for textbook sales at
Oregon is similar to that on other
campuses. Students at Oregon
State college and Lewis and Clark
get books from campus book
stores. At the University of Minn
esota and Illinois, students buy
their books from private book
stores, which have close affilia
tion with the University.
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