Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Camj f lis fails The Campus Shop i motivated organizatioi for the past couple of Under its present mi providing a service to. making proposition ti clientele. The Campi situation, and the stud4 prices at the booksto treatment is frequentlj have little interest in t serving. The administration role of the Campus questions as students. the campus bookstore business and make ul where should the profii good? The Divison of Busi opinion and the Stu statement. The Senat( ternoon to boycott tt brought more in line. economic boycott will We support~this sI power they have to Ic treatment. The Camp students, but with co A CI Gamec in new Well, it's that provei daily life begins swin self-promises to work We at The Gamecc with something new. shape, ou:tlook and si We are attempting ti a direction that incorp hat on a format that philosophy dedicatedi entire campus. We hope you find t meaningful part of tI and the issues studen The editorial pages o an open forum of thot welcome contributions and faculty in hopes Clarity of expression a important factors In gu contributions. The right Is reservec taste at the editors's guest columns will car understood as the opir Letters to the edit properly signed. An request, but The Ga writers to back up the may be mailed to Drai )us Shop students ; a high priced, tightly run, profit i that has been ripping off students years. inagement, the Campus Shop is not ;tudents. It is solely a money iat does not have to work for its )s Shop is in an ideal business .nt is being taken advantage of. The re are no lower than off campus, f rude and often the clerks appear to he students they are supposed to be is presently evaluating the proper Shop. They are asking the same Should students have discounts at ? Should the students help run the the bulk of the employees? And s be channeled for the most student ness Affairs says it is receptive to dent Senate just may test that could consider a proposal this af ie Campus Shop until prices are The authors of the bill hope that an make the administration listen. nion and hope students will use the b wer prices while demanding fairer t, us Shop is not presently a service to 'p 3peration, changes can be made. F1 ENT [PINI&N ock headsI d.. direction -bial time of year when the grind of ging into high gear, in the midst of harder and do a better job. ck also wish to start this semester Wany things have changed, including aff. a head ourselves in a new direction: orates issues that are seemingly old is new, while under a revitalizing ~o the suggestions and outcries of the his issue and the ones following a ie campus and relevant to students I-s raise. f The Gamecock are aimed at being ight and campus wide opinion. We of editorial tone from both students for a more balanced presentation. nd the timeliness of the subject are est columns and letters to the editor I to edit any contribution for good discretion. Material selected for 'ry the writer's by-line and Is to be ion of the author. or should be brief and must be ,uthor's name will be held upon mecock strongly urges -all letter ir words with their names. Letters ver A,-or brought by the.(GameCQck, ,. RuSsell Hauna. E SI BOOK TH 1s OVECMAN Early yesterday posters adv newly established book exch posted throughout the campus, were ripped down by the empk Guest Column BookstorE By DAVE POWERS Guest Columnist V For all that it might be, the S ampus Shop is a satisfying little b usiness. A neat little operation I irning in a satisfactory rate of U rofit with a given set of resources. a 'his is, I assume, what the U tanager is hired to do and it ap- t ears that he is doing it well. t, lowever, as a student, it is im- s ossible for me to accept the a ampus Shop as legitimate t usiness. To understand what is wrong 1 vith the Campus Shop, an ideal . ampus bookstore must be 1 lefined. It must be noted that I I nake the distinction between a I iniversity bookstore and an in- I lependent downtown type of )usines. A university bookstore nust be evaluated as an integral )art of the educational structure of he University, while a private I >ook store must be evaluated in I erms of what the ownership wants I usually a good rate of dollar eturn on the ownership's in iestment. A cumpus bookstore is a func ional part of the university's education structure; it should have all texts and required material for the student's course work. Fur ther, it should carry as wide a selection of other books as possible - have you tried to get the latest books in the field of ecology, for example, in the Columbia area -- let alone in the campus shop? Yet this is a field that is of great interst to many students at the University. Along with this wide stock selection' a good system for cataloging books and ordering them on request is also needed. T1he cost of books at the campus bookstore is also something that. should make It different from a profit-seeking enterprise. What the market will bear is a poor way to set prices at a university bookstore. It is unfortunate that college students should be limited in what they read because books are too expensive. So prices should be as low as possible. TIhe final thing that the ideal university bookstore must provide is a pleasant, comfortable at mosphere, with a friendly, cour teous, well-Informed staff. This is essential for a student bookstore .nnri thorn is nn.wav in intiIY .any 'UDEN EXCHI CAMPUS SHOP GING STUDENTS ertising the Campus Shop. I ange were give students , but several books at the sc >yees of the fering lower pr Cha ges Having developed an idea of that the ideal university bookstore bould be, the question that must e asked is - what do we have at the Iniversity of South Carolina? -- a niversity bookstore functioning s -part of the educational niversity or a downtown type of 'usiness? The Campus Shop seems [ offer most of the course material tudents need, so it has some ppearance of a university cokstore, but looking further we ind that the selection of other ooks is poor. The Campus Shop eems reluctant to special-order iooks for students, perhaps ecause there is very little profit to e made in this sort of service. 3rofit seekers special-order books is a service to attract regular :ustomers. It could be assumed that the ,ampus Shop is satisfied with the narket share it has. The at nosphere of the Campus Shop can )e evaluated by. those who have ;hopped there. This then leaves the price profit question to be an ;wered. The Campus Shop's prices ire definitely in the profit-making :ategory. So the conclusion of this :omparison between the actual aind the ideal at the University of South Carolina must be that we have a business operation - not a university book store. The Gan~ T HE GAME COCK is published trl-wee and weekly during the summer semne holidays and exam perIods. Change of l other mall Items should'be sent to Dras scription rates are $7 per year or $3 per i summer sessions. Bulk copies are $6 received $39,000 from the student activi subscription to the paper. Offices of T H of the Russell House on the University c4 777-4220. Second class postage paic GAMECOCK Is published by the Univ expressed herein do not necessarily r student body or the staff. EdItor-In-Chief...... .. .. Associate Editor... .. .... Editorial Assistant.... .. .. Managing Editors.... .. .. Assistant Managing Editor.... Business Manager. .. .. .. .. Sports Editor... .. .. .. Chief Photographer.... .. .. New Editors.... .. .. .. Advertising Manager. .. .. .. Circulation Manager.. .. .. .Speary . -... - IN GE RO TEXS ' he program was begun to an alternative to buying :hool bookstore, while of Ices. needed Most of the elements of the ideal )ook store would be accepted as tesirable by the students, faculty mnd administration, but at the ame time I am sure that some eaders will question the validity >f these objectives in the light of he reality of the University of South Carolina. Well, I like my iodel and think that we should ?ursue, as aggressively AsA ossible, the space and facilities, tc., that we need to have a first rate university book store. Existing profits from the Campus Shop are channeled back intoi the university, usually into projects that are very good and worthwhile, from the student's point of view. Non-athletic scholarships, parking facilities, etc., are very good and worthwhile projects. However, I am not sure that even these very good and worthwhile projects of the University should be funded from the sale of books. The money needed to have a good university bookstore can and should be generated by that bookstore. However, the bookstore should operate on a non-profit basis, generating only those funds needed for improvements overhead, etc. When this is done, the downward plunge of book prices would be a welcome relief to us all. recock kly during the fall and spring semesters iters with the exception of university Sdrss forms, subscription requests and Ner A, usc, Columbia, S.C. 29206. Sub all and spring semesters and S1 for both per 100. THE GAMECOCK this year, ty fund, entitling full-time students to a E GAME COCK are in Rooms 308 and 310 ampus. Phones are 777-8178, 777-4249 and I at Columbia, S.C. Although T HE ersity, of South Carolina, the opinion epresent those of the University, the. . . . .. .Charles Beebe ... .. .. ......Scott Derks .. .. . ... ....Cheryl Manning ... .. .. ......Jim Farrell Alice Potter .. ... .. .. .. ..Lucretia Jones ... .. .. .. .. ..Ute Huckabee .. .. ......Teddy Heffner ... .. .. ......Parker Renaud ..... .. .. ....Chuck Keefer Jerry Calabres. Charlie Felienbaum Chuck Harris .. .. .. .. .. ..David Lundgren .. .. .. .. ... ....Terrn Mel .. .. .. .. ..Anne Hightower