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Show The Dixie Sun Page 4 January 14, 19 Opinion Pens for Peanuts, Life's Tough Everywhere The coming of a new quarter brings the dread of every college student. Foregoing all luxuries like food, and heat, students pinch pennies in hopes that they can buy a pencil to accompany their text books. Although the easiest to blame is the bookstore, national college book standards regulate the price of books. When we called the bookstores of Salt Lake Community College, Southern Utah University, and College of Eatsern Utah; we found that not only was the Dixie College bookstore reasonably priced on their textbooks, they are even cheaper in some instances. We did find that many school supplies are greatly overpriced. In cases of things like paper, pens, pencils, binders, and computer supplies. When shopping for pens, we found that the same black BIC classic pens, that we paid $0.69 for when purchasing school supplies at the beginning of the year, was $2.39 at the bookstore. The problem comes that this is a small college bookstore, not a large commercial chain. There is little demand to Tyler Thorsted AssociateNews Editor Missy Evans Accent Editor Chaundra Stewart SportsAd Editor Amber Faulkner Editor-in-Chi- ef Staff Writers Brandy Fox, Rebecca Lloyd, Mary Maxwell, Jamie Parmenter Faculty Adviser Loren Webb The Sun is distributed each Tuesday during Fall, Winter and Spring quarters as a publication of Dixie College, its Division of Arts, Letters and Sciences, and Dixie College Student Activities. The unsigned editorial on the Opinion Page represents the position of The Sun, as determined by its editorial board. Otherwise, the views and opinions expressed in The Sun are those of individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Sun or any entity of the college. Letters to the editor must be typed and must include the name and telephone number of the author. Only the name will be printed. Names are not withheld under any circumstances. The Sun reserves the right to edit letters for length and taste. Letters must be submitted by noon on Thursday. THE DIXIE SUN Dixie College, 225 S. 700 East, St. George, Utah 84770 9 ext. 2063 Fax: (801) (801) 652-750- 0, 656-401- sunsun.fam.dixie.edu http:sun.fam.dixie.edusun.html order pens in bulk, which drives prices down. It does no good to complain when the bookstore can do very lit tie. As college students, why are we the ones paying the most money for everything essential to our education? Because, as a wise man once said, "We pay for convenience." the question posed then is this, is convenience worth $1.70 for pens? What can we do? The answer is quite easy, shop around and find the best prices, we live in a city, with several stores at our disposal. Another money cutting suggestion comes to us from Weber State University, where a club at the beginning of each quarter organizes a book exchange. Instead of selling the books back to the school at a price that won't pay for two new books, the students trade books; trade an uneeded Biology book for a useful Physics book. All we need to do is be defensive Faculty Art Exhibit Opens at Dixie Dixie College invites the public to attend it's 'Focus On Faculty" art exhibition. The exhibition runs January 9 through February 10 in the Graff Fine Arts Center. The opening reception will be January 10, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the gallery space. The featured works include a variety of two and three dimensional media that express the varied individu ality of the departments at Dixie. The artists are drawn from several areas within the college ranging from computer science to family studies. As a result the show includes several diverse pieces including paint, print, ceramic, sculpture, photography, fabric and other categories. In conjunction with the show there will be a gallery talk held on January 29 at 7 p.m. in the Graff Fine Arts Center, in room 101A. |