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Tony Greiner sets up a program at the Cascade Campus Library of Portland Community College for
students to save money by reusing college textbooks.
Program Saves Cost on Textbooks
c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 3
books available will mean that
students who cannot afford their
textbooks (or who have not re­
ceived their financial aid checks
at the start o f the term) will be able
to do their homework assignments
and readings while waiting for
their financial situation to improve.
"While one copy o f the texts
will not meet all the possible
demand, the project should be an
aid to student success and reten­
tion," he said.
If the trial proves successful,
Greiner said he and the commit­
tee will look for a permanent
funding source. Greiner said the
per-term cost o f the program
would drop considerably because
it will need to replace the texts
only for those courses that have
changed books.
"At the end o f the fall term,
and again at the end o f the aca­
demic year, this project will be
evaluated to see if it should be
expanded, m odified or d is­
carded," Greiner said.
Pioneering Student Remembered
He integrated
Little Rock
schools in 1957
(AP) — Jefferson Thomas was
fast and athletic and often played
pickup basketball with white stu­
dents while growing up in Little
Rock in the 1950s.
But when Thomas becam e one
o f nine black students to inte­
g ra te A rk a n sa s' la rg e st h igh
school, many o f his basketball
buddies w eren't happy to see him
in their classes.
"One o f them said, 'Well I don't
mind playing basketball or football
with you or anything. You guys are
good at sports. Everybody knows
that, but you're ju st not sm art
enough to sit next to me in the class­
room,"' Thomas recalled years later.
The pioneer in school desegre­
gation died Sunday at an extended-
care living facility in Columbus,
Ohio, o f pancreatic cancer at age 67,
according to Carlotta Walls LaNier,
who also enrolled at Central High
School in 1957 and is president of
the Little Rock Nine Foundation.
The integration fight was a first
real test o f the federal government's
resolve to enforce a 1954 Supreme
Court order outlawing racial segre-
and Thelm a M othershed Wair.
C lin to n issued a sta te m e n t
M onday, calling Thomas "a true
hero, a fine public servant, and
profoundly good man."
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Jefferson Thomas in 1957
gation in the nation's public schools.
After Gov. Orval Faubus sent Na­
tional Guard troops to block Tho­
mas and eight other students from
entering the school, P resident
Dwight Eisenhower ordered in the
Army's 101st Airborne Division.
Soldiers stood in the school
halls and escorted the students
as they went from classroom to
classroom .
Each o f the Little Rock Nine
re c e iv e d C o n g re ssio n a l G old
M edals shortly after the 40th an­
niversary o f th eir enrollm ent.
President Bill Clinton presented
the m edals in 1999 to Thomas,
L aN ier, M elba P atillo B eals,
M innijean Brown Trickey, Eliza­
beth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria
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