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Show The Holy Rowland Monday Marks Bookstore Blow-Up Oregon bookstore to conduct a survey sur-vey of the University bookstore facilities. fa-cilities. As a result of his recommendations, recom-mendations, the bookstore has already al-ready done away with its unnecessary unneces-sary study facilities. Other plans that will become effective once Executive Ex-ecutive Council has ruled on them include plans to move the lost and found department and the campus post office to the Union Building, making the aisles wider during the big sales business at the beginning of each quarter, branch out the bookstore and put bookstore subdivisions sub-divisions at the college of law and the college of medicine, start a paperback pa-perback shop in the Union, and physically expand the present bookstore book-store by 10,000 square feet. Pricing Defended The gripe that comes up most often is the one that goes some-i- thing like, "Why do books cost so much and why don't they ever arrive ar-rive on time." When I interviewed Harris Vincent of the board recently, recent-ly, he challenged anyone who had proof that the bookstore (which he stated was operating as a public service) was selling books for higher high-er prices than any other bookstore' in town to come forward Monday with statistics to prove it. As for the delay in book shipments,' he said most of that is the fault of slow professors who don't put their orders in in time to insure prompt arrival. Is he justified in writing off the two problems like that? I don't know. One thing for sure, Monday should be interesting. Meanwhile, candidates, what are your bookstore book-store proposals? Number two, resume re-sume firing. By DAVE ROWLAND I'll never be able to understand some of the campaign tactics of the ASUU presidential hopefuls. There is a tendency to include improvements im-provements for the bookstore to go along with other nebulous campaign cam-paign promises such as giving students stu-dents the first class citizenship they need to function while at college, col-lege, and to offer them a voice powerful enough to project to issues such as liquor by the drink and civil rights, only to mention a few. I don't know whether the student government is ready and willing to fulfill all the promises they have made. This is not the point. I'd certainly like to become a first class student, I guess. (What can that mean?) I simply would like to question the candidates on their proposed improvements to the University bookstore as it stands April 19, 1968. There is presently pres-ently on campus, a committee which in my estimation has done a world of good this past year in improving im-proving the bookstore for the students. stu-dents. It goes under the name of the Bookstore Advisory Board. It is like so many other committees on campus: highly unpublicized. Too bad. The students don't know about them. That's probably why they continue to bitch about the high prices, the cramped quarters, and several other problems that will (or should) shortly be rectified. So what has the board done and what is it doing? The case is stated as follows : Objections To Be Heard One thing it is doing next Monday Mon-day is holding an open forum session ses-sion in the Union Den at 3 p.m. .with any student or faculty member mem-ber who cares to come and air his gripe with the members of t h e board. I might mention that the board answers only to President Fletcher, who they meet with once a month. This is power, no? The meeting will be an excellent opportunity oppor-tunity for all those with valid complaints com-plaints to air them where it will do some good. The board promises that it will seriously consider each complaint offered, and submit them to President Fletcher at their next meeting with him in May. This should hopefully put at least a temporary end to the complaints of lack of communication from the students to the big whigs, and as Tom Leher commented in the now famous phrase, "If people can't communicate, the least they can do is to shut up!" One problem solved. Last May, the board commissioned commission-ed the manager of a successful |