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<1 PKW *' ' f., ' v;/ , y m X 1 M-;.?- J &<* <> ' ! 3"" j $$$& -y- -:-\. : ; '- ; v il . i Cool Str in the L< Let the sun fall on th< a linen weave sundres pockets on a sunny sal shirt style dress in crisj Note new "net" weav S s Downtown, Richl Efig&r ??5^1 iflk \ c mbp^IBI \ apping Dok of Linen ate shoulders. You're cooling K if ^ from our Mi. Berry Shop. Room) ffron yellow. Sizes 6-14. Try on thi p,. bright yellow & mango orange s on pocKon and yok*. bize*5-12 undrew , Ml. Berry Shop 38 hirtdr??s , Jr. Dritut ' 32. and Mall, Dutch Square - > EBBYS) m main J ings m our 3. Berry lop Dress orld . I f I I. I 1^" 111 11^ n 11 oooKstore installs cameras By V1CKI SCHWARZ uauicvwk owi i nrrner Closed circuit television cameras are now being installed in the campus book store and will be in operation Friday. "We installed the cameras in the new bookstore because the floor area is more than two times that of the old bookstore," said Douglas Fitzgerald of the Operational Services and Maintenance Center. i 1 4 * we ve nau me pians 10 install the cameras for several years, but we decided to wait until the new bookstore opened." "The average loss due to thefts are about two to three per cent of the store's gross revenues," Ben Swanson, bookstore manager said. "One of the reasons for the high rate of stealing is because there is not an adequate number of people who are well-trained. The closed circuit television will serve as a seeing eye and this can replace the inadequate number of people." The televisions will not only be cronninu (ha ctA?*a I* i iv ijvwi ii will VLJ2?d~VfJ employes working in the back, the shipping area, receiving areas, and the bookdrops, where thefts might also take place. Swanson said, "The investment of the televisions will eventually save the store money. It is one of the most direct ways to stop stealing." The financing for the cameras comes from provisions in the bookstore budget. TWELVE CAMERAS will be set up in the book store and will be monitored in the manager's office. The cameras' locations have not yet been established. Other changes in the bookstore will include placing fiction books on lower, more visible shelves. "The main reason the cameras will be used is to act as a deterrent rather than to actually catch itAmpnnp " Qararicnn a*U "*? ? a?cu| no a customer, if you know you are being watched, the chances are good that the person will not want to chance getting caught." Fitzgerald said, "Not many students are caught shoplifting now and the ones that are caught we can't prove . Things that are easily concealed are the things , most often stolen, however, we lose r 'A more money on books than en, < / anything else." 1 jw W