University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1970s) Student Newspapers 10-8-1970 Current, October 08, 1970 Tim Flach University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/current1970s Recommended Citation Flach, Tim, "Current, October 08, 1970" (1970). Current (1970s). 19. https://irl.umsl.edu/current1970s/19 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1970s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. University of Missouri - St. Louis Volume 5, Number 4 October 8, 1970 The amount of money students spend on books the criticism of the bookstore. will be reduced only when the faculty agrees to " I would encourage, if I had any influence in reduce the turnover of required texts, according this area, for books to be used for longer periods · h T to bookstore manager George Dickerson. of time so that students could resell them., either .n~"~e. "Really.' the only answer to reducing text costs, among themselves or through the bookstore," Dicker- B Ig, UA V W' ' AI as I see It, would be for books to be used for longer son said. 'periods of time, and how that can be accomplished Dickerson claims that a "sale and repurchase I just don't know," Dickerson said. of used books plan" would be cheaper for the stu- · h p. The academic departments are responsible for dents than a rental plan such as the one used at changing books used in a particular course, Dickerson Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.