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Student Operated Co-Op Store
Offers Rebate, Variety of Goods
From baby powder to “Rose
mary’s Baby” and from school
mugs to giant mug shots of stu
dent “idols”—the University
Co-operative Store has a bigger
and more varied line of mer
chandise this year to serve the
University community and the
city of Eugene.
Owned and run by Univer
sity students, the Co-op is hous
ed in a two-story building on
the corner of 13th and Kincaid.
It is open six days a week.
The Co-op has made two ma
jor policy changes in the last
year.
The Co-op is now buying back
paperbacks costing over $1.95.
Formerly they only bought
hardbound texts.
And in April, the Co-op was
placed under the Conduct
Code.
Persons caught shoplifting
had been referred before to the
city district attorney’s office.
Shoplifting in Oregon is a fel
ony.
Because store officials and
many people in the University
community felt the penalty was
too severe and because the Co
op is a part of University life,
the Conduct Committee voted
to place the Co-op under the
code in April.
35 Caught
Keith Nastiuk, assistant man
ager of the store, said since
Feb. 1, 35 shoplifters have been
caught. Most of the offenders
who went to student court were
given probationary discipline for
various amounts of time.
“There seems to have been
no appreciable difference in the
amount of shoplifters since the
new system has been instituted,”
Nastiuk said.
He said a loss of over $25,
000 was incurred from shoplift
ing last year.
The Co-op provides services
such as check cashing, package
wrapping, a notary public
(which is free), and typewriter
rentals.
In addition, it gives six schol
arships every year to foreign
students and prizes to the an
nual library contest.
Store Divided
The store is divided into two
areas. Art supplies, household
items, notions, magazines, rec
ords, gift items and a wide va
riety of other everyday mer
chandise are sold on the bottom
floor.
we are always upuauiig uui
merchandise and have just
brought in a new line of gift
items to keep in step with what
the students want to buy,” Nas
tiuk said.
The upper floor is devoted to
textbooks which are ordered
for classes and trade books. Con
struction during summer ex
panded the textbook area to re
duce congestion during the first
weeks of school.
Textbooks grossed the store
$1.4 million last year. And they
have 15,000 titles in trade and
reference books, making them
the largest seller of trade books
in the state.
“With an intellectual commu
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nity like Eugene, the bookstore
becomes a service to the whole
city,” Nastuik said.
He said many townspeople
have the misconception that the
bookstore can be patronized
only by University students and
faculty.
However, the Co-op is a pri
vately owned, competitive store
which has no University con
trol. It is one of the few stu
dent bookstores in the nation
which owns both the building
and the land it is on.
A board of directors compos
ed of five students and two fac
ulty members govern the store.
Any student can become
“part owner” of the Co-op by
paying a 50 cent membership
fee. The fee entitles the stu
dent to turn in their Co-op re
ceipts at the end of the academ
ic year and receive a rebate.
The amount of the rebate de
pends upon how well sales have
gone for the year.
The amount for the past 10
years has been 10 per cent of
the total dollar value of re
ceipts turned in.
Nastiuk had some suggestions
for students on how to better
utilize the store.
He encourages students to
wait until they are enrolled in
a class before they get the text
books.
He also hopes that students
will use the check clearing ta
bles to clear checks and decrease
delay at the cash registers.
Two new employees have
been hired, one person to cir
culate on each floor and an
swer questions.
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Open 3 Nights A Week
Mon., Thurs., & Fri. Till 9 P.M.
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