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Show THE CAMPUS Romey publishes article on group location preference Whether an individual member within a swarm of insects or a school of fish prefers to be on the outside edge or the inside nucleus of the grouping could depend on whether it is hungry or frightened. Bill Romey, assistant professor of biology at SUU, has determined in recently published material that those are two of the major reasons which detennine where an individual attempts to locate within a group. Romey examines location questions in a chapter of a book just released by Cambridge University Press called Animal Groups in Three Dimensions. The chapter written by Romey is titled "Inside or outside? Testing evolutionary predictions of positional effects." The chapter, which focuses on Romey's research over the past eight years with fish schools and insect swarms, explores why some animal individuals choose to locate on the outside of a group, while others prefer to be on the inside. In his research Romey marks individual animals and follows them over time to see where they prefer to be within a particular group. "Generally, individuals which are weaker, smaller, or less able to defend themselves prefer to be on the inside to better avoid predators, 11 the SU assistant professor of biology explains. "Hunger can trigger a preference to locate on the outside, since this is perceived to be the best place to find food." The research has included several species of fish and swanning insects. Romey has also published several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on why fish and insects group. Romey, in his first year on the SUU faculty, teaches a variety of courses including ecology, freshwater biology, and insect biology. Ptior to coming to SUU he taught at Colby College in Maine and Kenyon College in Ohio. He was awarded a master's degree in marine biology at the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. 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D ennis Ohms, Bookstore m anager said because the Bookstore is an auxiliary enterprise, it needs to be selfsufficient. ln 1972 the state said all auxiliary enterprises need to be self sufficient. As sucb, Ohms said his operation receives no tax dollars, must pay rent, and pay for fixtures, power, office furniture and other such necessities. The Bookstore is a non-profit organization. All revenue, up to $40,000 a year, generated by the store goes directly into student scholarships, according ,to Ohms. One year, the ' Bookstore was able to give the full $40,000 to scholarships. If more than $40,000 is made in the course of a year, some money will go to the staff and faculty benefit package, and then if there is any money left over it will go back to the institution. Last year the extra money that went back to the institution was used to build the Convenience Stor.e. Ohms said people ask about reducing book prices, instead of using all of this money for scholarships, but he said with the number of books that are sold every year, the price would only be dropped about 50 cents a book. Besides he said, the Bookstore has the second lowest prices in the state~ .The oiµy college that has lower prices is Salt Lake Community College. Ohms added SUU also sells more used books than any other college in the state. |