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College Math Club President
Dumps Supermodel
He crunched the numbers, then crushed her heart
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College sophomore Brady Burns, left, abruptly ended a six-month torrid love affair with a heartbroken Elene, right.
By JAMIE MURRY
Admitting that there was a good (9-V3)J percent
chance that he made the wrong move, college
math club president Brady Burns recently called
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girlfriend Elene. Burns, who claimed
he carefully calculated the breakup,
said his alleged free checking
account had monthly fees that just
didn’t add up. The whiz kid was
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formula... ”
quick to admit that had he known about
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relationship’s longevity may have had better odds.
“I loved her like a quadratic formula, but the
off-campus lunches were killing me financially,”
said Burns. “I felt like a real abacus for breaking
things off.” The fact that he was unaware of
Washington Mutual’s Free Checking—an account
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loss. “He could have just gone to a
Washington Mutual Financial Center
or wamu.com,” she said. “We were
totally soul mates, but I guess he didn’t see that.
As far as I’m concerned, he can go jump off a
logarithm. Whatever that is.”
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Senior geography major Lee Christensen uses the services of The Copy Shop, at
359 E. 13th Ave., on Saturday afternoon. Many students take advantage of local
alternatives to the University Bookstore or copy course materials to save money.
University traffic
supports Eugene
area bookstores
Although the UO Bookstore offers flexibility with
financial aid, local stores allow for increased variety
BY EVA SYLWESTER
FREELANCE REPORTER
While packed aisles at the Univer
sity Bookstore are still a common
beginning-of-the-term experience
for most University students,
some professors now send their stu
dents book-hunting at other
local businesses.
English Professor
David Vazquez ordered
textbooks for his two
literature classes at
Mother Kali’s Book
store.
“I wanted to support
the local bookstores,”
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Vazquez said. “So far it’s been pretty
good. It seems like they have
enough books and everything’s go
ing smoothly.”
The relationship between the Uni
versity Bookstore and other book
stores professors use is cordial.
“I don’t think it has much impact
on us,” said Chris Standish, book di
vision manager of the University
Bookstore. “It’s good to have other
local stores, because if we run out of
something, it gives students another
place to shop locally.”
However, Standish added that the
University Bookstore is better
equipped to handle students receiv
ing certain types of financial aid,
such as vocational rehabilitation
and athletic scholarships, because it
has a special account system for
such students.
Some students say the inconven
ience of having to travel a few blocks
off campus for books is minor.
The trip off campus didn’t bother
freshman Spanish major Jennifer
Yabu.
“It doesn’t really bother me,”
Yabu said as she bought a Spanish
course packet at The Copy Shop.
“I just wish they would let you
know in advance, especially
students who have to budget for
their textbooks.”
Some off-campus
coursebook retailers,
like Mother Kali’s Books
and The Copy Shop,
have had coursebook
arrangements with
many university classes lor years.
Others, such as Tsunami Books, sell
coursebooks on a smaller scale.
Mother Kali’s Books sells text
books for various departments in
cluding women’s and gender stud
ies, literature and political science.
“The only thing we really don’t
do is the hard sciences,” said Karen
Luna, manager of Mother Kali’s
Books.
The Copy Shop produces packets
for approximately 40 classes in nu
merous departments, most notably
in romance languages such as Span
ish and French.
“Typically the instructors that
come here are concerned about the
cost of textbooks,” said Steve Jarvis,
manager of The Copy Shop. “Our
printing cost is about half (that) of
the bookstore. ”
Jarvis explained that while the
bookstore and The Copy Shop must
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