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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1965)
Co-Op Store Owned by Students The Co-op store at the Univer sity stands in a distinct minority among college stores—it is com pletely owned by University stu dents. Only three per cent of the more than 2,000 college stores in the nation operate under a similar arrangement. Most college stores are owned by the colleges and universities where they are located and most do not give refunds on pur chases. as does the Co-op. The Co op has given a 10 per cent refund to members consistently for the past 18 years, the only store west of the Rockies to do so. Corporation Operates Although the Co-op is entirely student-owned, it is not an offi cial part of the University. It is operated by a separate corpora tion, which has as its board of directors five students and tw’o faculty members elected by the membership. A membership good for the en tire academic year is available to any University student for 25 cents. The members are entitled to refunds on purchases, given at the end of the school year and based on the total of accumulat ed Co-op receipts and are eligible to vote in the annual Co-op elec tions in the spring. No Stockholders The Co-op store was started in 1921 by a group of faculty mem WORK proceeds on the new $500,000 Co-op store at 13th Ave. and Kincaid St. Features of the new 25,000-square-foot store, due for completion winter term, include air conditioning, skylighting and a meeting room for students and faculty. i bers who bought stock to finance ! the initial operation, according to Gerald Henson, Co-op manager. 1 The stock was later purchased and liquidated by the present cor poration. Japanese Exhibit Opens at Museum A special exhibit of Japanese woodblock prints, together with the tools used in printing, is one of the newly reorganized displays in the University Museum of Art. The prints are arranged in a developmental sequence, illustrat ing the technical and stylistic progress of the Japanese wood block through its short history, 18th and 19th centuries. Japanese woodblock prints first came to the attention of the Western world in France, via Hol land, about 1815. The Dutch, trading with the Japanese out of Nagasaki, apparently used the prints as wrapping paper for the parcels they were sending to Europe. Even in Japan the prints were considered merely as expendable amusement, or decoration for such things as paper partitions, screens, fans, and kites. No rec ognition was given the prints as artistic achievement, either by the feudal government or by the artists practicing within the class ical traditions, which had been established for centuries. The “ukiyo-e” tradition of woodblock prints developed out of the demands of a growing mer chant class who sought entertain ment in things less serious than the traditional arts and scholarly leisure-time pursuits of the no bility. This merchant class sought entertainment in the popular Ka buki theater, the courtesan quar ters, and in the current fashions of the moment. Thus, these as pects of living were presented in the ukiyo-e (“this fleeting, floating world” of ephemeral pleasure). The subjects of the prints were primarily courtesans and Kabuki actors. Only in the 19th century did Japanese landscape become subject matter for the most fa mous of the Japanese woodblock artists—Hokusai and Hiroshige. In spite of such inauspicious beginnings, woodblock prints to day are highly regarded as artis tic achievements. They had a tre mendous influence on the devel opment of Post-Impressionist ar tists such as Gaugin, Van Gogh, and James McNeill Whistler. Western collectors have been ac quiring the prints as art objects since the late 19th century. An interesting facet of the woodblock print process is the fact that each print was the re sult of cooperative effort between three persons—the artist, the block-carver, and the printer. The artist drew a sketch of the de sired composition which was given to the block-carver. This sketch was pasted directly onto the cherry wood block and was used as the pattern for cutting. The carved block then went to the printer, who covered it with paint in a rice paste medium,, placed a sheet of mulberry bark paper over the block and rubbed off an impression by hand. Th e reorganized woodblock print exhibition is in the Gallery of Japanese Art on the second floor of the Museum of Art. Mu seum hours are from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The museum is closed Monday. • ADVERTISERS • i PATRONIZE I WATCH OUT for the opening of the NEW HASTY HOUSE featuring LUCIOUS GOLDEN CHICKEN delicious big-treat hamburgers and a variety of sandwiches Corner of Hilyard & Broadway Henson said that a common lo cal misconception is that there are still stockholders having shares in the Co-op, although the original stock certificates have long since been cancelled and are valueless. Since 1921 the Co-op has grown into a business that had gross sales of $1,380,000 during the last fiscal year, according to prelim inary reports, and refunded some $83,000 to student members. To get an idea of its operation. Henson said that the store sells about 35 tons of paper each year. Acute Space Problems Suffering from acute space problems, the Co-op is presently building new quarters at the corner of 13th Ave. and Kincaid St., which will enlarge its total space to about 37,000 square feet, double the present size. The new store is due for com pletion during winter term. The store presently has two locations —one in the basement of Chap man Hall for supplies, and a sec ond store adjacent to the new building on Kincaid St., which handles books only. The Chapman Hall space will be used for graduate study facilities when the Co-op vacates it. Three Levels The new store will be on three levels, as is the present Kincaid St. structure—two stories plus a basement. It will cost about $500,000 When the new quarter* are completed, the top floor* of each building will be used exclusively for textbooks—the Coop han died over 1,300 different textbook titles last year The ground level of the present building will be converted to office space, with all “trade books" (non textbooks) housed on the new building's ground floor. The basements of both will be used for storage, with possible in stallation of cashcr stands in the new buildings basement in the future. 60 Per Cent Join Other facilities in the new store include perimeter storage around the floor areas for easy access to supplies, tinted glass skylights, air conditioning and a meeting room for use by University stu dents and faculty The new struc ture will also have public rest rooms. Henson said the annual mem bership (inure of the Coop ls quite consistent about 00 per cent of the student body ||o salt) this figure is fairly standard across the country. Hooks account f«>r over 65 per cent of the gross sales over $1 million last year. The Co-op employs between Hi and 20 students each year, with extras hired during the fail rush. The new Coop was not built without a fight in fact, several tilings base delayed its comple tion. Former Tavern Site It occupies the site of the for mer College Side Inn, once a tavern and later a favorite cafe for I’niversity students When Hie Coop proposed -to j.ii/t- the structure, which hail been closed for safety reasons, a "Save the Side" campaign was led on cam pus by Vic Sabin, a University architecture student. Controver sy ratted for months, and finally the Co-op members decided by an eight-vote margin to destroy the Side The new store was due for completion at the opening of fall term, but work was stopped for nearly three months by pickets Willis A Hill of Salem, general contractor for the project. In Jan uary refused to sign an agree ment with the Building Trades Council Injunction Issued The Council is a group of 17 trade organizations who picketed Hill for hiring non union help An injunction was Anally Issued in favor of Hill in April, and work began once more. 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