Show I visa r i o Bookstore oo s ore op Co-op I Rests Rests Upon Possible Benefits A source of student complaints com com- U UNIVERSALLY plaints are college stores book-stores all over the nation whether they are ops co-ops or university shops Survey of the text book and supply prices charged in any university book store reveals that those charged at Utah are no higher despite add added d transportation costs this store must stand than others However feeling that a student operative co-operative might insure a closer up tie-up between the store book-store and the student the Chroni Chronicle Ie conducted the thc recent poll which reflected the undergraduate favor of such a proposition IT MUST BE remembered though that the low amount of purchases of candy notebooks notebooks notebooks note note- books paper and other supplies at the U of U store keep its profits low as these are the thc goods upon which a 40 profit is available while texts only yield at best a 20 profit and operating operating operating oper oper- b costs alone cover this Thus only a small profit would be available for redistribution being the average for the past decade and if we are to take the Stanford op co-op experience experience experience ex ex- as any criterion only 60 to 70 of the students will return for their share which at Utah at best could be no more than 50 to per student NOT ONLY THIS but any serious consideration consideration consideration consid consid- of a U of U bookstore operative co-operative must realize that the present present store profits go to the University much of which has been in invested invested invested in- in vested for the students in the Union building the stadium student loan funds and the student student student stu stu- stu- stu dent health service etc That the bookstore can be indicted on such counts of a few personnel and of delays in getting books is undoubted undoubted undoubted un un- un- un doubted and a student cooperative might and might not help this but that the present store has much to be commended is also true |