Textbook Prices Increase ^Visitation Rule Changed
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Servin^he College Community for 50 Years •Vol. 53 No. 6 Patereon College September 22,1986 ^Visitation rule changed will keep it confidentifll- BY EIJZABETH GUIDE On Wednesday evening the apart- ?iEW3 CONTRIBUTOB ments held a meeting and the outstanding question was "How do Visitors of the opposite ses are we tell on our friends?" Hsnning's • now able to stay overnight on rebuttal was, "instead of everyone Fridays and Saturdays in the apart- getting in trouble for an incident, ments dne to a policy change that •only :h- individoal will "be in Went into effect last weekend, said ' trouble."Hen.ungadded,"WedPn't William" Henning, residence life wain u«; picblem to be considered a director, Heritage rir Honeer problem; if if s smuts ah individual^problem then it will Henning said the reason there is Q MST'BE not a policy that allows visitors of be h ^dled that way. But we need the opposite sex to stay overnight tne resident help." PA i&m during the Week is that he feels 95 He wanJs to -.-e^i out the five " percent ol the problems that occur percent that is causing the prob- in the apartments has to do with lem. Kenning would also Hke to the visitors. direct the-rules at ,the 95 percent Until Residence life feels the instead of the five percent. vandalism and problems from the-- Kenning also said that he woald DUtside have stopped, the all-week like to ha ve an Apartment Associa- policy will not go into effect. But tion started in both apartment ; ffpfiT^ing^d^iRy beanfj theadmin- buildings, it would entail electing - istrationwillnotbe'opposedtostich representative residents to report to Beine aamtzzaTo/The Beacon EH&Aeth. Guide/The Beacon " a move in the frrtcre. Henning. • •• s President Speart and Board Chairperson Runeil Hawkins listened to irwin Nack, union toeai -,?96 Crime Watch . Future Plans prwMsnt, address *M Board of Trustees last Monday as some teachers rallied for a "fair contract Because Henning feels that most Henning has on/rufethat will be without a strike." The strike deedBne ts Monday, Sept 29. problems come from the outside, he imposed soon. He Wants a phone has initiated a Vjime watch pro- system installed that wonld enable gram that resembles the type neigh- a visitor to call a resident and borhoods havel The basic princ pie request ac. escort to the room. "Too behind fee program is not to breas many people give wrong room num- op parties or step residents from bers and we don't know where to making noise, bat to make,* the Snd them. We had seven people last residents responsible for the place Thursday who gave the'wrong they live. If they fee someone at*' room numbers.0 tempting to coiae in through the Heiming added that his goal is Textbook prices increase windows oi'damaging the bmlding, "making adults responsible for they may report it to Hennhjg, who where they live." BY MARY LOUISE HELW1G nursing, medical and other science ". This sometimes occurs when there STAFFWIttSSE texts. are new books on the subject or new The bookstore, according to editions of the books pending, The price of textxxjks has gone McGuire, gets a 20 to 25 percent McGnire said. ._ op about fire percent since last discount from publishers when £> ' >GA resignations year, said Richard McGuire, man they boy new texts. Another problem, admitted ager of the WPC Bookstore. Another problem facing students McGuire, is that the bookstore program because of low grades. With book rates increasing every is the supply of textbooks not meet- generally bases its purchasing on BYJIMMELILLO The other six people who have year, ssed te*is, winch sell fear 25 ing the demand. tie past reecrd of how many people STAFF WRITER ' resigned from their positions in the percent Ies8 tha the current retail signed op for a coarse and how SGA are as follows: Mark Anders, lias, acecfifing tc- McGnire, oc- many books were- sold. Tbe enrol- Stephen Margolis, co-treasurer of price, area smart boy, he said. curs for a number of reasons. Oc- the SGA, along witH* six other senior class treasurer; Lois Rosa, Tbe WPC Bookstore purchases lment figures that the bookstore sophomore class treasurer; Eduardo casional *y faculty members do not gets are based only on priority members offhe SGA have announc- the majority of its used books from place their orders -on time. This ed their.resignations from office. Carrasco, club B representative; (Mail-in) registration since books Matthew Harelick, School of Sci- the stadents, as do most college happens mainly when adjuncts are are ordered in July. Margolis, applying for the Inter- bookstores, McGnire said. WPC hired at the last minute to teach national Management Honors Pro- ence representative; Denise does, however, btf? acme osed texts another section of a course. - gram, explained that his position Correia, School of Arts and Com- from wholesalers. > Judy Dietrich, the textbook buyeTi in the SGA would have taken up too munication representative; and Rodents ryfarnmg books that for the Bookstore, and McGuire much of his time. Margol'-sis also a Bill Keenan, School of Manage- w3L be used next semester will both saidthat i*ck of texts h as been resident assistant and said he^s ment representative. .receive 50 percent, according to less of a problem this semester tha responsible for 50 peoDle. "If I Reggie Baker, president of the McGuire, H has been in the past. would have continued ~x> S- rimy SGA, said that everyone hada good "Hse proportion of used bocks to Lack of texts has Dietrich added tfaattaost of the position in the'SGA, my er-;aes, reason for leaving and tipat he nsv books in the bookstore this problems foig semester have been my job and the SGA may have hates to'"see anyone resign from a • semester was about 30 percent been less of a the fault of the publishers, who in' suffered," he said. Margolis stres- position. "I really don't want to ased, to 70 percent new, he said. some cases no longer carry certain sed that he did not want to jeopar- make any moral judgments about Seventy percent of- the books problem this tests, and neither sent back nor dize his enrollment into the honors it" Bakersaid. being new, however, is not atypical, forwarded the orders-. as the range usually ^fa Us between semester. 70 and 80 percent, McGeire said- Both Dietrich and McGuire agree Economics, accounting and psych- chat the re-order process "has run ology all came oat with new tests very smoothly this year. Dietrich this year. " added that it is a great help when For new books, students pay the The bookstore also runs into a professors keep the bookstore ad- current retail prices, the most ex- problem when the publisher has no vised as ih how many of their pensive of which usually are art. more copies of the needed testa. students are unable" to eel books. INDEX: EDITORIAL EZ'Oy'AL EDITOR z2~C«*-- =D~ Pg 6 OfMNrQM C= \ C\O?'NiCN" 0= \ CN C= \OS Pg 7 ARTS .~P S ~? S -i? S ARiS APiS -^S AP S"A- ;Pgs 8-9 • - CAMPUS STYII CAV^S S-IE CA\-PL-S S~- L5 C Pgs 10-1-2 • * SPOBTC SPOTS S=C3TSS?C<;S 5=0^5 SPOTS Pgs 13-16 The Academic Support Center is for all students. See story on page U. Steve The Beacon/September 22,1986 page 2 Campus Events Career Comer MONDAY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY An enthusiastic ''WELCOME" A key service that many students Catholic Campus Ministy Club History Club - A showing of the Student Activity Programming from your Career Services staff in have successfully takenadvantage -Garage and Antique sale. Dona- film Caligula. 7:00 p.m. in Student Board - The film Taps will be Matelson Hall! of is our Job Location and Develop- tions for sale are welcome. 10:00 Center 213. For more information, shown at 7:30 pjn. Sat. anchSun. in If you are a freshman or transfer ment Program. A full-time coun- s.m. -3:00 p.m^at CCM Center. 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