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Show Student Book Exchange ' cent or more, says Mr. Hicks. THE University Bookstore will help by paying for advertising and by referring students to the service. To handle the expansion, expan-sion, the Exchange has moved to the Den in the Union where it will offer a nickel coffee shop and warm fire as customer service. In order for the newly expanded ex-panded system to work, it must be emphasized that students need to get their used books to the I.K. receiving booth immediately im-mediately after finals. It will be located in the basement of the Union in the pool hall games booth, and will take books from March 15 to 19. Students will be able to get more for their used books starting start-ing the end of this quarter. The exchange that has been offered through the service of the Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate Knights has caught the attention of groups who seek to improve Bookstore services. ser-vices. With financial and advisory advis-ory support from the University, an expansion of consignment buying of used books will be attempted. THE BOOKSTORE Advisory Board had proposed an improvement improve-ment of such a facility in order to allow the student to save paying pay-ing a profit making middleman when he bought and sold used books. President Fletcher is enthusiastic en-thusiastic about the idea, and the I.K.'s were approached with an offer of assistance from the University to expand its exchange. ex-change. According to I.K. Norm Hicks, use of the new service would allow the student to make about 20 per cent more money on the books he sells than if he sold them at the University Bookstore. Book-store. The Bookstore allows about 55 per cent (45-65) of the new price of a book; by selling sell-ing direct to other students through this non-profit making exchange one can make 70 per |