Show Get green for the environment and for wallet your y Melanie Bush Contributing Writer The economy and the environment are the two words that sum up what bookstores are using as bait to catch students and bring them in at the beginning of this new semester These timely topics help lure students in not 1 7 only with the idea of restoring money to their post-holiday post cash- cash depleted wallets but also that they are doing something good for the environment Salt Lake Community College Bookstore encourages students to recycle and sell their books back to their bookstore by reeling them in with the green factor Do something good for you and the environment their flyers tout around campus PJ's College Books offered a 10 store in-store credit at the end of last semester which may have enticed some students to take advantage of Textbooks Continued on Photo Book store in student center at the Taylorsville ille Redwood campus l M Textbooks going green Continued from A Al 1 early textbook buying Not all students want to give back though Some prefer to keep them for a reference or maybe a future library The stark reality is that the text will be obsolete in just justa a few years Class packets which ar are compiled and sold at the bookstores contain information on a specific class or additional data for a class that professors require for their students These class packets that cost b between tween two and six dollars may be the only texts that students cannot resell back to the bookstore students Shandi Kelbaugh and Kristeen Judd are trying to find the most cost effective way to get their education Both cosmetology students they are required to buy books for a small fee compared to the thousand dollars needed for tools and supplies Kristeen will purchase the pre-made pre kit either on Bay e-Bay or at the college bookstore while Shandi decided to make her own kit by purchasing the items separately at different beauty supply stores Though their major may not be the one that will revolutionize the medium in which textbooks are brought to students maybe one one ne day they will benefit from digital learning that will take l less ss of a toll on natural resources Most students studer however are just t l J a little leery when it comes down to that final action of pulling out their desired method of payment at the cash register and maybe well so When asked what a the most expensive book was wasat wasat wasat at PJ's College Books the store employee answered without hesitation The Project Resource Manual Manual of Practice a mere With the economy the way it is a math book quickly adds up and a used human anatomy book can really bend one out of shape Full time students have that that figure figure multiplied four or five times Yet that thatis is the price we pay to learn and if we can feel more environmentally friendly for doing it then maybe we are okay about having havinga a little less green in our wallets O t a i w r f Photo by Ant Ani J I Pallets of book at the book store on Taylorsville the Redwood campus t. t t r j |