Book fee draws complaints
Some students still don’t know about new charge
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new 50-cent restocking fee for returned books,
says Sara Vamashiro, University Bookstore
advertising manager
The fee is designed to discourage book
shortages which occur when some students
sign up for more classes than they intend to
take, playing the drop-add game, she says
The result is book shortage, Yamashiro
says After the bookstore orders more books,
students return the purchased books, causing
an overabundance, she says
The practice costs the store $200,000
from the 18,000 books returned early in the
term.
Despite advertisements and signs posted
in the bookstore, some students get angry
when they have to pay the fee, Yamashiro says
"The purpose again for the restocking fee
is to act as a deterrent to students who buy
books with the intent of returning them, and
having the books on the shelf for those who
need them," she says.
A similar plan started at Stanford Univer
sity Bookstore last year reduced the number of
re-orders and sell-outs greatly, Yamashiro
adds
The restocking fee was adopted this year
after a one-year study
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School plans fundraiser
Approximately 100 volunteers
will soon tackle the finger-sore
job of dialing thousands of
University business school
alumni to request donations.
The volunteers hope to raise
$10,000 for the business school
in a three-week telethon, says
Barbara Kenyon, assistant dean
of the college of business
administration
Calling it the "first annual."
telethon, Kenyon says the
$10,000 wjll go to supplement
state supiSort
The school needs funds to
publish an alumni newsletter,
develop faculty and to purchase
"stuff we can't afford to buy
otherwise," Kenyon says
Among the volunteers
handling the phones from Oct
18 to Nov 10 are college of
business administration faculty,
undergraduates, staff and
alumni.
Student interest sought
Students who want to be in
volved — but who are short of
time — should consider apply
ing for a student-faculty com
mittee position, says Paul
Rudinsky, ASUO executive vice
president
Applications for the 86 posi
tions available may be obtained
in the ASUO office. EMU Suite 4
The deadline for applications is
Thursday
Students may pick the com
mittee best fitting his or her time
constraints, Rudinsky says
Some committees meet only
once per term while others meet
once a week, he adds
Student committee members
are important because they
reach out to areas where the
ASUO and the Student Univer
sity Affairs Board have no con
trol, says SUAB vice chairer Lori
Kleinsmith Twelve of the 28
committees are without ASUO
or SUAB members, making the
other student representatives'
voices and votes more im
portant. she says
Only one committee, the
Faculty Personnel committee,
denies students a vote The
representative may voice his or
her opinion but may not vote.
Kleinsmith says
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