Co-op book
buying test
of nerves
Hearing how most textbooks aren’t even
used in class increased the frustration and
shortened the tempers of students waiting
in the seemingly never-ending lines at the
Co-op. More and more students have come
to consider purchasing the “required
text,” a necessary evil.
So it was Monday and Tuesday af
ternoons when students trying to buy
books filled the second floor of the Co-op.
The line to the cashiers—where their
lifetime savings quickly disappeared—
reached back more than half the length of
the book buying section and just like last
year, the number of persons upstairs by
mid-afternoon created a fire hazard. Co-op
workers were forced to rope off the second
floor loft and leave students milling
around downstairs waiting to shop in
shifts.
“We don’t like it any more than the
students,” Gerald Henson, Co-op manager
said when asked about the problem. He
explained that the Co-op’s main job was
getting books to the students and given the
size of the store, Henson said that there
was not much of a solution to the over
crowding.
“We hate to disappoint students,” said
Henson. He pointed out that the co-op was
presently having another major problem
with a shortage of assigned texts.
In an attempt to reduce the crowding,
the Co-op will be open this evening for book
purchase from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Book buyers crowded the second floor of the University Co-op Tuesday. Eventually students were
roped off and allowed inside in shifts.
30 rooms still open
Dorm vacancies held for minorities
Thirty vacancies exist in dorm housing—this
despite the huge waiting list for rooms last week.
Richard Romm, assistant director of housing,
explained that the waiting list was caused primarily
by the University’s practice this year of “holding
space for special groups.” The groups, which were
allotted 120 spaces, were for students in minority
projects. Approximately 80 spaces were utilized by
these students.
"It will probably take a week or so to fill them,”
Romm said of the remaining vacancies.
In addition to students who did not show up for the
minority projects, Romm cited such factors as the
higher rate of returning dorm students, the droD
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ping of out-of-state limitations, more single rooms,
and carpeting in the rooms as reasons for the quick
filling of the dorms.
Actually, the dorm situation, except for the
spaces held for special groups, is similar to last
year. Romm said that both off-campus housing and
dorm cancellations have remained at last years’
level.
Romm also commented on the recent editorial in
the Emerald which criticized the “notoriously poor
food” of the dorms. “I would be happy to invite
whoever wrote the editorial to lunch,” a smiling
Romm said, “and I’ll pick up the tab.”
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