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2 Clackamas Print News Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007 Bookstore: friend with benefits Kyle Steele The Clackamas Print This year the campus book store will finally give back for all the books that students have to buy each term. The Clackamas Cougar Rewards plan will be a way for students to receive items just for making purchases at the bookstore. Store Manager Dave Hulcrom created the program based on an existing idea from ASG book exchange Good news: Students can save and make money from their old textbooks. The Associated Student Government (ASG) has its annual book exchange at the start and end of each term. In the Bill Brod Community Center, inside the cafeteria, stu dents can come and sell their books to other students instead of just selling them back to the bookstore for less than the price of the book. This is a great way to find and sell textbooks, especially if the bookstore cannot take any more books or is out of the books stu dents need for class. The book exchange is here the first two weeks of the term, and again during finals week. Students have until the third week of the term to collect their money and any of their books that did not sell. There are no guarantees that every book will sell. All textbooks are kept in the ASG office in the black cabinet, where they will stay until they are - or if they are -sold. So, when finals week approaches this term, hurry to collect those books and money before it’s too late. -Compiled by Mallory Bashaw the Missouri Book Service, the largest bookstore systems provider in the United States. Clackamas is the most recent school to implement it. The program will require that students sign up online at the store Web site to be entered into the system. Participating students will get a point for every dollar they spend on anything from books, t-shirts, food and drinks. “You get a hundred points* for signing up,” said Janne McLain, who manages mer chandising and marketing at the bookstore. The store is currently working on a catalog that will be released later in the year. Following the release, cus tomers will be able to spend their Cougar Points on a wide selection of merchan dise in the rewards catalog. Items that don’t count toward reward points are gift cer tificates, tools, backflow kits, graduation items, bus passes and TI-83 and TI-84 calcula tors. Clackamas’ rewards pro gram is one of only a hand ful of similar rewards systems across the country. Arizona State University’s own Pitchfork Perks program and Clackamas’s Cougar Rewards are just the latest college ser vice plans to be implemented across the country. Over the last few years, more and more schools have chosen to reward students for their continued use of the campus bookstore. “You can go to CCC rewards and look at your points at any time,” said McLain. There are currently n plans for the points to expiri so customers can save thei up to use later. Those who have alreaq purchased books and othe reward-points-credited prod ucts without signing up ft Cougar Rewards can sti redeem their points. Studen must sign up online and the bring past receipts to th bookstore so that staff can lo the points to the customer account. Faculty takes initiative in enrollment Continued from ENROLLMENT, Page 1 their students,” said Drebiri. A push this fall has been for faculty to call and check up on individuals who do not show up to class. A particular group that the college is paying extra attention to this year is first-time freshmen. “That’s the group that has never been to college before; they’re traditionally right out of high school, or they’re maybe returning adult students that have never been to college,” said Drebin. “If they fall into that full- time category, we try and watch their full-time progression from fall to winter.” “All of the research and litera ture out there that has ever been done on retention says that the more connection that a studertt can have with their faculty, the more likely they are to stay and retain,” she added. “We work really hard to make those rela tionships happen.” Personal. Professional. Preferred. WSll Vancouver offers 14 Bachelor's degrees, 9 Master's degrees, 1 Doctorate degree and over 35 fields of study. Explore WSU Vancouver and discover which of our programs is right for you. We invite you to visit our campus. Call 360-546-WSUV or visit www.vancouver.wsu.edu/visit to learn more. W ashington S tate U niversity ^V ancouver www.vancouver.wsu.edu 360-546-WSUV
