Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Selections < By Danny Powell OanMCMk StaM WrHw When buying their necessary textbooks Carolina students can choose between the Campus Book Store and the South Carolina Book C*A. ? oiurc. The first notable difference between the two stores is size. The Campus Book Store is larger with approximately 26,000 square feet, 18,000 sq. ft. of it being sales and display purposes. The South Carolina Book Store is much smaller with 11,000 sq. ft., half for sales and display and half for storage. BOTH STORES are heavily stocked with basic school supplies such as notebooks, pens and pencils, paper, index cards and other such supplies. Both stores have a wide variety of these items it as weu. When it comes to the area of art and engineering supplies, the Campus Book Store has the advantage over the smaller store because of its size. The Campus Book Store can supply you with just about anything you can think of in the areas of art and engineering supplies, much within a practical price range for students. The South Carolina Book Store, however, has only the basic in engineering supplies, such as paper and writing utensils, and practically no art supplies. ^ GIFTS, SUCH as glassware, ashtrays, stuffed animals, etc. is another place where the Campus Book Store has the advantage over the privately-owned store, again because of size. The South Carolina Book Store has one service in the area of gifts that totally overshadows the effort of the campus store, and that is the sell of arch-rival Clemson items. Hie privately-owned store stocks a limited number of Clemson articles such as glasses, ash trays, license plates and a few other items that the campus store does _ .1 A . _ # not siock ior some reason. "I don't think that Carolina students are a rabid about seeing Clemson items as Clemson students are about seeing Gamecock things," Bailey said. BEN SWANSON, director of the campus bookstore, said gift sales were very good. The Campus Book Store is looking forward to producing a gift catalog specifically to reach the USC alumni. Swanson said several other schools have such catalogs for alumni and parents of students who are generally interested in collecting special things for their . particular schools. T-shirts are a bis seller, and both ! The GAMECOCK It the student newspaper of the University of South caorllna and Is published three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and sprint semesters and once weekly on Thursdays during both summer sessions with the exception of university holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in the ! OAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South i Carolina. Th? University el South Carolina It an equal opportunity institution. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to Me OAMBCOCK, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C. tfTM. Subscription rates are IS per semester and M for the summer sessions. Third class post ape paid at Colombia, S.C. I J iiffer, but stores have a variety to choose # .it. n.it m irom. doui uaiiey ana swanson said the clothing business is an unusual area because of student taste. Both agree that it is uncanny how some designs sell one year but the next year they don't. Bailey said he had a collection of all of the shirt designs in a catalog, and if a certain design ever came back into style, he could order it from a company and put it back on the market. "Clothing is a very important part of the college store," Swan son said. r VyT. VT,. ^ \?I ^esmd not prices a * Swanson saftl there was a need for more communication between the two stores because with the two stores operating the way they are now, book shortages or book "The Campus Book Store and the ' South Carolina Book Store sell ? more used books to students in the i South than any other area," > Swanson said. SELLING BACK books to the two book stores is where most students express their biggest | gripes. Both Bailey and Swanson said their policy on buying back \ t campus usable books is they pay back up t< 50 percent of the original Drice. 1 the book is not going to be use again, the stores use what ar known as buying guides fron different parts of the country ii order to get rid of the books. The campus store may giv lower prices for some books thai the privately-owned store becaus the Campus Book Store uses onl; one buying guide, whereas th South Carolina Book Store use four different ones. 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