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Show Letters To The Editor II Kudos to Us Dear Editor, ' My congratulations on your editorial in the Tuesday "Chronicle". I could not agree more that this campus needs to shake the apathy and complacency com-placency off its Beatle locks. The student body needs to try to do something about its problems. The bookstore problem prob-lem is a big one, filled with inertia, but as you point out, it is by no means the only problem. It is time that students who are supposed to be in the final stages of maturation resisted being treated as children, resisted re-sisted the temptation not to speak what they feel, resisted the fatherly attitude and calm indifference of those whose boundless wisdom has led us into another incomprehensible, fruitless, perhaps necessary, at least whatever kind of war. Students have to risk being killed in that war by failure to leap over some of the University's Uni-versity's nonsense hurdles, by inability to cope individually with unsolved problems, by being ignored and minimized. Students should take a more active interest in their fate and oppose it bitterly if necessary. neces-sary. Students may act no more rightly, but at least they might, they should be more willing to try. That, I take it, is what your editorial urges them to do. I could not agree more that they should do it. Ronald Denchfield Cool It, Ron Dear Editor, If one had read Monday's "Chronicle" one might have noticed one awfully long "Letter "Let-ter to the Editor" by one ROnald Denchfield. And, if one had waded through the 29y2 inch diatribe, one might have been as confused as I was. It was difficult to tell whether Mr. Denchfield was attacking the new library, or the parking problem, or the Huddle, or Ernest Wilkinson, or the bookstore, book-store, or the University, or life in general, or what. After nearly near-ly 350 words of typical pseudo-intellectualism pseudo-intellectualism he announced that he wished to criticize the bookstore. For one caustic paragraph he does that. Then he says, "One complains." And complains he does! He complains com-plains about: college administrations, adminis-trations, Paris models, points of view, the business community, com-munity, inadequate education, "earth-cast concrete caves" (whatever those are), private enterprise, and the problems of automation. At this point Mr. Denchfield reminds us that "this is where the bookstore comes in." I suppose. Following Follow-ing this reminder he makes another an-other unsuccessful attack at the bookstore. He ends the whole mess with three or four totally unrelated statements that I suppose were intended to be witty. From what I excavated from the tirade, it seems to me that Mr. Denchfield has totally misunderstood mis-understood the purpose of our bookstore "on the campus". The bookstore was not intended intend-ed as a library for the thousands thou-sands of publications of the type he so pitifully described. One can buy those in almost any downtown paperback bookstore. Ours has the awesome awe-some responsibility of supply- 11 ing nearly 17,000 students with the textbooks that they need for classwork. It is difficult enough as it is to find exactly the book needed. It's not hard to imagine the chaos that would be created if the bookstore book-store tried to carry every dime-store dime-store paperback as well. If I've misunderstood you, Mr. Denchfield, enter a few "Tell us why you take No-Doz in 25 words or less" contests, take another course in freshman fresh-man composition, and then try to present your case again, but without the boring superfluities. superflui-ties. R. Dennis Smith This Is Apathy? Dear Editor, Many of us who have been concerned with the total inadequacy in-adequacy of the University Bookstore were heartened by the recent letters of Denchfield and Cressman. We support their recommendations recommen-dations for improvement and would like to see those recommendations recom-mendations implemented. We urge others interested in solving this problem to attend the open meeting of the Bookstore Book-store Advisory Committee this afternoon in the Tanner Room, OSH 334, at 2 p.m. Judi McCormick George Pugsley Katherine Bagley Youssef Saad Leo M. Lowther David Beesley Fred Noramarco John C. Reid William D. Raat Nick Coppin (Editor's Note: The above letter let-ter was signed by 219 undergraduate under-graduate and graduate students. Space permits only' these ten names to be printed.) |