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Show Tuesday, Chronicle - Page Seven January 17, 1989 Appreciate hardworking bookstore employees Editor: In his article ("lst-da-y blues greet U. students," Jan. Vic Garcia describes the hassles of the first week of 4), school. Well, Vic, I've worked at the bookstore for over three years. And I'm sick and tired of the Chronicle and professors slamming the bookstore. Phone registration began in the middle of November and everyone had their pick of classes. But no-t-he student you quoted waited until the first day of class to roll up here at 7 in the morning and then was pissed that he couldn't get any classes. Your article states that this student is almost a senior. It boggles my mind that this quotee has made it that far. The article claims there are hundreds of students standing in line. This is just a slight Vic. Even the picture that accompanied your article shows five customers waiting in line. Lines averaged six to seven customers long, which is quite an accomplishment considering over 20,000 students go through the store during quarter opening! Books not there? Then get in line and place a special order. You act like a special order is second only to contracting' the plague! What if the bookstore didn't offer special orders? Let's see . .".'you wouldn't be assured of having any textbooks at all! If "your books are not on the shelves, talk to your professors! Textbook requests (from departments) for winter were due Oct. 10. If the requests are in by the Quarter over-exaggeratio- n, they can qualify for the bookstore's family too. The bookstore hires more than 30 temporary people and sets up 11 additional cash registers to speed up the checkout process! The special lines for check approval are there to shorten the process at the check stand. d Believe it or not, it takes less time to stand in a line and a line at the cash register than to stand in just one line for both services. Maybe next quarter the bookstore shouldn't stay open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the first week of Mf&JocK Irml one-thir- check-approv- al class. Maybe the bookstore should be closed on like my weekends off. Maybe the bookSaturdays-I- 'd store shouldn't guarantee textbooks. Maybe the bookstore shouldn't hire extra people or open extra cash registers. Maybe the bookstore shouldn't offer refunds. If you buy a book, you own it. Would that make you use phone registration and stop trying to get into classes the day school starts? Maybe the bookstore should stop offering Buyback. Where else can you buy a book, use it for three months and then receive 60 percent of the current retail value back? C'mon Vic, get the facts before you demean hardworking U. employees who are trying to make things better for who work hard even though the majority haven't received a raise in three years. you-emplo- yees Teri Smith Business ' - Capitalism required for, not equal to, freedom Editor: Guaranteed Textbook program. The bookstore photo- I was disappointed to read the article titled copies reading assignments until the books arrive. Requests turned in on time help the bookstore compete "Capitalism doesn't spell freedom" by Andrew Hunt on a national basis in obtaining books. Forms turned in (Jan 3). It's not that the conclusion was necessarily but that the arguments presented do not stand. by the due date could even help the bookstore in wrong, He sets out to debase capitalism (a job that is never obtaining more used texts. And used texts mean a savcompleted) and concludes by embracing democratic ings for the students. , , Talk to the students who buy the books hoping to socialism. first His point states that capitalism has no necessary add the class! Professors letting students add classes the first week of the quarter could mean a shortage of connection to freedom. He states several countries which operate under a capitalistic economic system textbooks for students who preregistered by phone. . guarantees freedom, only that it is one necessary ingredient for the end product, freedom. The article dismally continues by pointing put that a true socialist democracy doesn't exist, yet ignores completely that the same is true with pure capitalism. Then our corrupted form of capitalism is contrasted with this ideal (that doesn't really exist) and behold, we fall short. The founding fathers would have little problem understanding why so many people are disgusted with our present system, infested as it is with socialism. To compare the social ideal against the deteriorating capitalistic reality is simply misleading and reproachable. In conclusion, Hunt's article shows that democracy and socialism are compatible. I would agree insofar as democracy does not mean freedom. You see, the title should have read "Socialism doesn't spell freedom." As he points out, it does not exist. The free market is the necessary precondition for freedom. Governmental meddling in the marketplace is the cause of governmental corruption. For true freedom, we need less government, not more. David M. Tew " Junior-phys- ics . . ; 1 The bookstore was open Tuesday, Dec. 27; Saturday, Dec. 31; and Monday Jan. 2 when the rest of the U. was closed! Do you want to guess how many students took advantage of the extended hours to purchase books? 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