Show Pace 4 The Uan Statesman Monday January 1 4 1 s?tO QPINION L book Judge acover by its Students expect prices to go up but the cost of required books is producing an unusually and unnecessarily bitter sting Students rarely place the blame for this expense where it belongs The bookstore does not profit from new book sales Professors who receive their editions of textbooks free are at fault A computer science student with 19 credits was forced to buy 51 10 S3 in textbooks for five classes It is an enormous total but after searching through texts for other classit is apparent that other students grappled w ith a bill bigger than that One book for a civil engineering course costs $45 A German phonetics paperback st'IIs for mere $10 95 An instruction booklet for trombones costs 1075 Certainly there are reasonable selections A 1500-pagindustrial safety manual costs 535 But too few professors consider the student wallet Professors should take a book's price into account before pawning off their choice upon students Certainly they realize paperback books are less expensive and can contain the same information as a hardback More teachers should follow the example of one communication department professor w ho selected five paperbacks for less than $15 l The claim that technical books require costly graphs falls short of reality We are aware of printing costs at the Statesman We are not professional printers but we do know it doesn't cost $ 5 more per copy to print those texts Instructors should not order such books Teachers are too complacent to realize that inflation is almost as high as their ivory towers We are paying money for this education In return students expect and deserve texts at rea'orable prices e e Tj&zil U AFGHAN I STAN hard-to-prin- 1 SC movie bargain not worth the effort Students who braved Fridav night's snow and frigid temperatures to attend the SC midnight movie deserve an apology from the program director-an- d a full refund of the admission price 'Hie popularity of the movie Jeremiah Johnson could easily be gauged bypresented the packed theater The audience was in for a disappointment The quality of the print show n seemed to have more in common with a basement-produceskin flick than a d Hollywood movie The picture fluttered about on the screen with distrac tmg requency and entire lines of dialogue were skipped Long vertical scratches made the look as if paintei with a center line Like a highway print The projections was constantly refocusing the movi but couldn t quite manage to maintain a sharp image Finally the projector broke down entirely and the at dience was told the evening's entertainment was over The most distressing aspect of the whole debacle wen beyond the mechanical problems of the situation A few minutes into the film a ticket seller entered th theater and "invited” every one to leave w ho had not pai JheaMnOUrRt wachjdish illogical Certainh seriously thing anyone would respond Tc have uone so would have a admission of guilt It must be the responsibility public of the emplovees of th a th ter to stop the freeloaders at the door instead of mak mg uele announcements that destract the attention ol IegUima'e patrons The bC movies are intended to be a bargain for the P00" tua!lt-- of Fr‘dav rVm night's Tue1ng and the concern about the audience needs the was not worth the effort bargain " Don’t worry ' Comrade Commander We have everything under control hen ‘Midnight movie not worth a cent’ To th editor portions running through it After sitting patiently through one hour and 45 minutes of this I'nfortunately th first attempt at film it finally stopped altogether a midnight movie this winter The audience was excellent and did quarter was an utter failure It not seem upset even though they Started Korn wrong when after had to sit in absolute darkness for about five minutes into the movie five minutes before someone finally the woman selling tickets care into announced that the movie would the theater not continue It was sold out and had about 15 On way out I asked the to 20 people standing in the aisles womanmy that had sold tickets where The woman invited" those who I could get a refund for the 50 cents had not purchased tickets to the showing cost get out W asn t she aware of how many She replied smugly "On Monday tickets she was selling or wasn't you can get one penny back if you anvone watching the door? 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