https://archives.uwp.edu/files/original/10c5ca09024f725cd093e784607af4dc.pdf a832566c7bf5a9c8b787b8d45842aad8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource University of Wisconsin - Parkside Ranger News Description An account of the resource Student newspaper of UW-Parkside Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Issue Volume 6, issue 17 Headline Used for newspapers, the Headline element describes the main article of the issue. Book Co-op Progresses Series Number The series number of the original collection. UWPAC124 Ranger News Text Any textual data included in the document 1 er Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Vol. 6, No. 17 "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." -Benjamin Franklin Book Co-op Progresses By Bob Hoffman -Books are lett on consign-on a $10 textbook the minimum the book co-op Anyone who Is information Al o we'r planning News Editor ment. That is to say that people savings to the student buying the interested in working in the book to tart a non-textbook chan e receive their money only after book and the student selling the co-op should, according to Elsa, system next m ster. ach Every semester $37,000 worth of used textbooks are sold back -to the bookstore and the student-run book co-op. While the book co-op currently only gets $1,800 of this. In the future it will almost certainly receive much more; perhaps even someday capturing the majority of used textbook sales. Student-run book co-ops are the fastest growing student activity in most campuses. The most interesting aspect of this is that while student-run book-stores are mostly volunteer run, and are nonprofit institutions, its main attraction is that it appeals to student's self-interest; namely saving money. Parkside's book co-op was started two years ago by Rusty Smith, the current president of P.S.G.A. It is part of the Con-cerned Students Collective; the other part of CSS is the food co-op. The person currently running the book co-op is Elsa Carpenter. The co-ops procedure for handling books is as follows: their b_ooks are sold. If the books book total $2.50! ! This is the either stop by when they're open month we'll ask p opl to bring are going to be used again by the minir.num because the bookstore or else just slip a piece of paper In books from a certain area, a professor _ the chances of t_he prices the used books at 75% or under the door of the co-op with science f1ct1on and th n we can co-op-selling the books are quite their new list price. Of course -as the student's name, their exchange thee book . We'll b good. Otherwise the chances are we all know there are very few telephone number and the hours u ing the newsl tter to tell not so good. In fact, Hsa books, probably none, that do they could help out. Elsa will p opl what ar a we'll b Carpenter, manager of the co-op, not increase in price from then get in touch with these featuring. Th newsl tter then says that, "we h~ve piles of semester to semester. people. ext year three people will b monthly, that should books no longer being used. The Once the books are sold, will get a small wage so some work out fairly well For thi students are free to keep th_e checks are then made out to the students might want to help out semester I just want to thank all books at the co-op and see if students who left their books at this semester and then maybe the p ople who ha e work d in anyone will buy them, otherwise the co-op. Elsa asks that students next semester they can receive a th book co-op and ha u d to they can stop in during the wait until Friday to pick up their small compensation for their co-op for b ing o co-op rat1ve" semester an_d take them back." checks since that will give time efforts This semester there have The hour for tn to-op thi -The _price that the_ co-op for students to bring back books been a number of people who week will b w dn day from charges 1s determined in the Elsa Carpenter adds that, "we have 0Iven immeasurable help to 9 00 t 1 Th d f II . h -o a.m o pm , ur ay oh owindgbwaky: t 6e2~?-ofp hprilces still have a lot of checks-from the co-op. "There are a number from 11 00 a.m to 1 00 pm, and t e use _ oo s at ,o o t e a~t last semester and two semesters of people that deserve thanks," Frid a from 11 oo a m to 4 price paid for them. The way this ago that students have not said Elsa. "Gary Ledger ha really p m Then during the mest r figure 1s arrived at 1s tha~ the picked up yet. So next Friday worked hard and has helped me the co-op will be op n two da bookstore _pays s_tudents 50 1/o of they can come down and pick out a lot Paul Hoffman, the a week at I a t five hour a ~veek the last price paid for the books them up." bookstore manager, has given and tho e hours will b p0stl'd (providing that the books are The book co-op has made me suggestions and has been going to be used again) and then progress. Last year it only netted quite helpful Sally Watson, charges 75% of the new list price $1,100 in book transfers, this Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for the book. Thus 62% is a year it will probably net $1,800. gave me book lists that saved m~ rough average used to price the This kind of progress for a book hours and hours of work. This books. co-op that is still in its growing semester has gone quite well so Now as can be seen the stage is encouraging, to say the far and next semester we plan savings that students can get are least. However, more people are to start a monthly newsletter that rather substantial. For example, needed to further the growth of will give our hours and general Rubner redefines 'adult students' by John R. McKloskey Associate Editor "We should knock ourselves out for the students", said Stuart Rubner. Rubner is Parkside's director of community student services, which is aimed at recruiting and counseling adult students for UW-P. Although Rubner's re-sponsibility is for the needs of adult students, he sometimes hears about a regular student who can't get his questions answered, and Rubner himself talks to the student. "If I see someone in the halls who looks like they might have a question, I ask if I can help. Once I did that with a faculty member I didn't know", he laughed. "Adult student" redefined Rubner says that although an "adult student" is often defined as one over age 25, he prefers a different definition. "An adult student is anyone who has postponed, interrupted or ex-tended tbeir postsecondary education ("extended" means spread out over a number of years, taking a few credits at a. time). For example, he said, a 21-year-old who's already been married and divorced and wants to continue his education, would be an adult student. Since most Parkside graduate students will be adults, they also will be able to avail themselves of Community Student Services, which Rubner divided into three parts· recruiting, counseling, and guidance. Adult recruiting is concentrated in the summer, Stuart Rubner and Connie Cummin~s (right) assist a new Parkside student, Anita Petermark at registration. when adult students tend to become more intere t d in school "Currently there's a great pu h to recruit students", said Rubner, who likes to do ome oun eling himself Rubn rs coun elor ar Sue Johnson, Connie Cumming , and Red Oberbruner Before Rubner ame to Parkside last Augu t, he obtain d a fed ral education grant which he brought with him to UW-P. Rubner· pro1ect ha develop d 'The Adult Learner's Handbook", which Is about to be printed. The potential adult student interact with the booklet, answE:ring questions which help him analyze hi potentials and alternatives The copywrited hooklPt also contains a glo sary on the nt pro ram into th communIt as w II as h r on campus !:QWL, which tand\ for ontinuing E:du atIon and th Quality of Work and Life, will f atur ~ If-a , \m nt for the adulb to d t rmin th Ir tr ngth and w akn 1 -cu I0n , sp ak r~, and films will be brought into th ommunit . inside ... Bookstore Editorial page 2 Jazz Ensemble Jan. 28 page 5 Rangers win classic page 7 _..,j . ' . Dial Ranger Advertising at 553-2287 Wednesday, January 18, 1978 2 Campus bookstore ...... Are there alternatives? • The perceived sins of the bookstore are so well-known that it would serve no purpose to extensively recite them again. More. useful is to determine the true extent of the problem, the possible alternatives, and Ranger's proposal for what should and should not be done. Perhaps the greatest number of student complaints about the bookstore are about the cost of textbooks. However the costs of the textbooks are: (a) not outrageous and (b) cannot be reduced substantially except for one alternative, that will be explained later, that is extremely undesirable. Most college bookstores do not make much money on textbooks. They make their greatest amount of profit on paperback books, (40% to 50% markup), magazines (33% markup), and other 'soft' goods. The amount charged on textbooks is usually based upon . publisher's suggested list price. Therefore, among the various alternative methods. of handling textbook sales both a university owned bookstore and a book co-op would still have the same overhead expenses, the same expenses for textbooks and most likely would charge the same prices for new textbooks as the existing bookstore does. The only way to save students a large amount of money would be to have a university owned bookstore that rented textbooks. Over the course of four years this kind of system would probably save students $500 to $700. But the disadvantages from the system far outweigh the advantages. First of all, renting textbooks would impose a large measure of standardization upon faculty members. For to recoup the costs of buying the textbooks, the same textbooks would have to be used for at least five years. Secondly, there are numerous benefits for students in owning the textbooks they use in college. For every student, there are numerous textbooks that will later on prove invaluable as reference material. Third, the amount spent on textbooks compared to the costs of tuition, and the opportunity costs incurred in going to school (such as lost wages that could have been earned were one not going to school full-time) is relatively quite small. Probably the reason MARGU/..IES TTOTHCO students complain so much about the costs of textbooks is because they are the ones directly paying the costs with tuition in quite a number of cases, either students get the money from their parents or from grants and loans. So the costs of the books, while high, are not much higher than textbooks would be under any of the-desirable alternatives. -As for the usecf textbooks, the situation is entirely different. The book co-op is a definite option for students who want to save money. Howev.e__r the extent to which students can use the service of the co-op depends upon the extent to which students use the book co-op. The co-op is · only its second year and as one would expect is improving and growing larger. The major complaint against the bookstore from faculty members is the delay in obtaining textbooks for their classes. Largely the problem stems for the very people who are complaining the most. Last year the number of faculty orders that came in on time were 44%. This year the number of faculty orders that came in on time were 76%. Accordingly the number of books that are in now are much much higher than last year. However part of the problem was due to the inexperience of the bookstore manager Paul Hoffman-. He came here three years ago almost totally inexperienced and a large number of his later problems stemmed from this inexperience. But th.is situation is being rectified. Faculty members on the bookstore committee are speaking of receiving strong assurances from the Follett Corporation that Parkside will no longer be a training ground for new personal. And Follett has started a one-year training program for new bookstore managers. So in conclusion Ranger feels the true nature of the problem with the bookstore is overstated. Problems are being rectified and improvements are already being made. This does not mean we endorse the current Parkside administration's attitude, which does not encourage the ex-ploration of various alternatives to a monopoly bookstore. Rather we feel that these debates about various alternatives should take place in a rational, deliberate manner. . Ranger is written and edited by students of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and they are solely responsible for its editorial policy and content. MORE INFORMATION Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Parkside Ranger, Volume 6, issue 17, January 18, 1978 Description An account of the resource Student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wis. 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