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VOL I XVIII NO la THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1976 vol. lxvih, no. rniveralty of South Carolina, Columbia,S.C. Booksi with pi By ELAINE ELLISON n I. ?ff uaincvutft ouiu nuici g* Charges of price-changing anc nnantbftriTpH pmnliwps' disrountj in the Campus Bookstore wen made during the last two weeks bj former bookstore employes, mosi who worked as late as this sum mer. According to two formei bookstore employes, workers ii the textbook section would eras* markings in textbooks whicl students had sold to the store ant ^ sell them as new. ? Merry Bateman, who worke< until July 1976, said, "I have seei them (bookstore employes) wit] what was a cart of books which ha< been purchased from th< students," she added. "They tool them into the back, put new price on them and brought them back ou front to be sold as new books." Bateman also said those em ployes who repriced the books am sold them as new were not "per v sons in auuiority." A FULL-TIME EMPLOYE Kate Derrick, now working in th bookstore, said, "I work in th bookstore with Mr. Rorie (textboc department head) and I don't thin there's too much to that." She said she could not rememtx anyone ever deliberately erasir - - * l? 1 11J iL . marKS in dooks ana selling uitau i new. ? Bookstore Manager Be Swanson said he didn't kno whether or not the practi< existed. Swanson said pricing mistak l ,; , [ ^-^jSj^Sji Master of the pei Cord Mc Cut hen, 3t masters name as he contemplates h tore chj ? i "I have seen them (bookstore employes) with what was a cart of hnnlrc whif?h tiorl haon 1 MVV11U VTII1VII MVVII r purchased from the t students. They took them into the backy put p new prices on the, and ! brought them back out j front to be sold as new i books." i j ?Merry Bateman , Summer bookstore ii employe' i e are made "because the pricing of It books is very menial, very times consuming and many people are t involved. itm :c 4u/v nc autu 11 ujc uuuiusiure uua as {. many as 20 persons working in one d section, such as this summer, when the store was being moved, it is hard to watch every employe and see that he does not make pricing ie mistakes. ie "If you're asking me 'are there >k pricing mistakes made', I can say I ik don't know of any big stores where there aren't pricing mistakes moHo '' ka orlHivrl Zl timviv| iiv uuuv>\x, ig "If a student buys a book that is is lower priced he won't say anything about it, but if it's over the price, ;n he'll be concerned," he said, w ANOTHER FORMER employe, ;e who was working at the bookstore two years ago, said the same es practice was going on then em ^jiji 1 i the pen and his University o is entrance to the of the I.D. v irged mges jiiujca cittacu .uiuriu* ill usra DOOKS and sold them as new. Although a standard employe discount does not exist in the campus bookstore, employes were getting discounts ranging from 20 to 40 percent as late as this summer, according to one former employe. TTie employe, who asked not to be identified, said Swanson never made a rule for employes' discounts, although employes did receive discounts. Another employe, who worked through the summer, said, "I was J At A * 1 t * ioia mai 1 snouia go to a specific person if I wanted to get more of a discount." She did not say who the specific person was, but added that the only discounts she had received were on three books she had bought. AFTER SHE discovered there was no standard discount rate, she bought items at the retail price, telling the cashiers to "skip the discount." ! Bateman said the discount amount was usually the judgment of "the person on the other side of the cash register." rrt 1 _t_ _ _ i _ . a l 1 _ ane saia sne was aiso ioia, wnen she began working, to go to a ! specific person for more of a discount. "Whenever I bought something, ! I was given quite a lenient discount," she said. Another student who worked part-time in the bookstore, said he i also received a discount. rr\ _11 i! l two iuii-ume employes now See BOOKSTORE, Page 5 KyjR/JBifw# lyit fW' l |l ^ * ' ^ P^'^wSE |v li 11 ,3B EB H flg^ It \ Uk ifl ^Mlt!l^V MlMgrnm B^Bj^^HHBBy^ lGBBH|RBn mk. ~ \ _ mmm J*? Setdet-?THE GAMECOCK f the Future. Those long numbers rill present a problem. LjfflflBBfcy** '*J* - HI ^ tUCH ' l^6^^8Lh. ' HImjJV |nfSh*v!| LllJt ^Ma^f "M ^y^^B^Bggjgjgd n IHS hffP ^^njJftJI JKmI TK-*8^ c-<~-' ia Bookstore problen Larry Fernandez shops in the Cai reading material. Recent all however, that the bookstore is se prices. r acuity ti near com O,. DATTV CIIAl!niMr??CV DJ r/11 1 I OIl/lUUIll^EiOOI Gamecock Staff Writer Hal Brunton, vice president of op< formerly McCutcheon House, will be semester and the renovations are aboi Faculty House is 163 years old da original 12 campus structures?11 < original campus had three double oc Faculty House was one of the three, I to continue using it as a faculty facilit "About five years ago the house w< miserable shape," Brunton said. "1 down." TI1E HORSESHOE COMMITTE1 /4r\ rl /\ rot f 1"* t J Atvonoll An K ucviucu iu iciiuvaic nic uui ocoiiia; 1/ and "holding on to what is good in t that the committee had a choice of Horseshoe buildings or renovating an Ford might USC game, President Ford's itinerary remained uncertain yesterday, but he is tentatively scheduled to see part of the USC-Notre Dame game and visit the South Carolina State Fair. Ford is scheduled to visit the North Carolina State Fair before flying to South Carolina. He is not expected to leave Raleigh, N.C., before 1 p.m. That would put the President in Columbia in time to viait the fair and see the second half of the game. A sell-out crowd of more than 56,000 is expected at William Brice Stadium. i k **- " r * Jtff Seidel?THE GAMECOCK 118 mmic RAALctnra fnr mtoraciiniT egations have been made, lling some used books at retail louse is . e pletion orations, said the Faculty House, open for faculty use in the spring at 95 per cent completed. ting from 1813, and is one of he of which are still standing. The cupancy faculty houses and since the Horseshoe Committee dediced y, said Brunt on. is occupied by nursing and was in ['he simplest thing was to tear it now headed by Barry Rosen, ecause of interest in preservation he past," Brunton said. He added making a few changes to ail the d doing the job well. See FACULTY HOUSE, Page 4 : attend state fair Ford's visit, announced Monday afternoon by Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., is the first time an incumbent president has visited the state since 1972. Richard M Nixon visited the state four years ago after the Republican National Convention in Miami, Fla., and spoke to the S.C. General Assembly. Edward Bell, a campaign worker for the President Ford Committee in Columbia, said Ford considers South Carolina to be a state in which the election will be close