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ets Discount Bookstore Offer OL Faculty Favorable Dealer s Prices 18%Q Lower By KITTY PHILBIN it were purchased used in a downtown store." Collegian USG Reporter The letter also said that operation dur- On Book Petition A Philadelphia book dealer has offered ing only the first week of the term "limits to establish a student-operated bookstore on the competition with downtown stores, and A faculty member who an- weeks ago, which detailed the campus, the Undergraduate Student Govern- would tend to force them to lower their nounced last week that he used and new book-buying and nent revealed last night. would circulate a petition call- prices." selling situation in State Col- In a letter last week to USG, Richard Herman's proposal included a note of ing for faculty support of a lege. - lerman (2nd-business administration-Nar- an additional discount that would be issued University bookstore said yes- BX Manager lerth) said it would be possible to supply depending on the quantity and the pub- terday that the outluok ap- The report called ' for a woks "at a minimum discount of 18 per lisher of additional titles ordered. peared o be good for his plan. full-time manager for the Book ent off publishers' suggested prices." Ronald R. Maxwell assist- Exchange in the Guaranteed Delivery Hetzel Union Herman, representing Whitman Book The final point said that Whitman will ant professor of English, said Building as the first step to- jhops of Philadelphia, presented a seven- guarantee delivery of textbooks on March that he has "been having a w ard establishin; a University- 5art plan for the establishment of a store. 28, 1968. if ordered on or before March 13, good deal of success in getting operated store on campus. 3e said that Whitman would supply all 1968. the petition circulated about Faculty response came from leeded books, postage paid. Herman concluded the letter by men- the campus." Laurence Lattman, professor He also said that paperbacks, depending tioning that the Whitman Book Shops has Maxwell said it was too early of geomorphology, and Walter m quantity, would be available at 30 to 40 sold texts for thirty years to students at for any returns, but that he Westerfeld. professor of botany, >er cent off regular prices. the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel Uni- "has talked with perhaps • a who said , respectively, that The letter was addressed to Steve Ger- versity, and "the three other Universities dozen people" on the subject, "the University owes its stu- onj head of USG's Administrative Action located in the greater Philadelphia area." and "a favora jle response con- dents a bookstore, " and that Commission. It said, "I agree with certain Herman also said that "Whitman is one tines to be the impression." "every decent university has points of the downtown merchants' argu- of the largest urban located bookstores in The petition was described one." ment. However, I do believe that a student Philadelphia, and is renowned for its service not as being a concrete pro- Vice-president ¦ for Student Af- book store is possible." to the Philadelphia metropolitan area." posal, but an indication of the fairs.Charles . Lewis said sev- Credit for Unsold Books Gerson said he will be in Philadelphia signers' belief that "the intel- eral of the p roposals in USG's The proposed store would be billed at March 8, 9, and 10 to discuss the proposal lectual, cultural, and academ- report ' were not realistic," and .he end of the month in which the books with Whitman. ic advantages of an on-campus that the administration could ivere delivered, according to Herman. Pay- He said he "hopes this will be a transi- bookstore are of sufficient mag- not "snap their fingers and ment would be due before the tenth of the tion step between a full-time manager of nitude to warrant the faculty's have things happen." rollowing month. the BX-UBA and a University-operated expression of support." From town, merchants of the Whitman would also give the campus bookstore." Maxwell said he is interested various bookstores have alter- store credit for all unsold books returned Letters Sent to Officials primarily in reaching a diversi- nately called a student-operated within 40 days of delivery. Gerson said copies of Herman's letter fied cross-section of the faculty, store "a fantastic undertaking" Whitman said it was "aware of the BX," have been sent to President Eric A. Walker, though not necessarily great and a nearly impossible one for and recommended that the proposed store Vice-President for Student Affairs Charles numbers, with th petition. students, and agreed that stu- be in the same location as the present BX, L. Lewis, and Vice-President for Resident Faculty View Given dents "get the best prices here" since shelves, cash registers and sales per- Instruction Paul M. Althouse. According to the author, the and that "State College has the sonnel are already available there. Whitman Also receiving copies were Director of petition is not intended to pre- best competitive situation in Newmans Elect Officers also proposed a fee of 10 cents a book to Student Activities Champ R. Storch, and sent any other view than that the country." allow for operational costs. William F. Fr"«- >nanager of Association of the faculty and the result Reasons for students' dis- NEW OFFICERS of the Newman Club pose at Saturday night's "New Orleans Another point of the plan said that "It of Student Activities. might possibly be inconsistent content with the current book Mardi Gras," held at the Nittany Lion Inn. From left to right are Jack Kacar, secre- is to be noted that Whitman pays all trans- The copies v>fc.i received Thursday by with the views of either the Ad- situation varied from merchant tary; Fr. Queniin L. Schaut, director of the University's Catholic Center; Martin portation charges and the student store will these administrators. Gerson said no re- ministration or the student to merchant. The manager of have no bookkeeping costs because it pays sponse has come yet. and he is waiting to body. Keeler's said "Students don't Smith, treasurer; Lloyd E. Adams, faculty adviser; Marlene Murray, president; only one bill." see what kind of approval would be needed The petition an an accom- know what the hell they're talk- Fr. Leopold Krul, chaplain, and J. Barry Harper, vice president. The affair was The letter said Whitman felt the store before the offer from Whitman could be panying resolution will be pre- ing about," and he manager of attended by close to 100 persons. should operate only during the first week accepted. sented to the University Sen- the Student Book Store ex- of the term. It said, "This would enable the Gerson said most likely approval will ate next Tuesday at its meet- plained it as being student student to buy new books at a price which have to come first from the Board of Trus- ing. anger "at the end of the term closely approaches the price of the book if tees. ' Maxwell said that "a long- when they're tired." time sympathetic observer," Vocal student response has Bobert W. Frank, professor of com? from Nittany 28 in the English and a senator, will pro- form of a letter sent to Presi- Ail-Out Offensive Expected pose the resolution to the Sen- dent Eric A. Walker requesting ate. action on a bookstore, and that Maxell said that it is "gen- students be informed of Walk- erally my impression that there er's intent. is more student support than The students als'- called for has been demonstrated." other student groups and organ- Reaction to the bookstore izations to draft letters, so that Khe Sanh Patrol Blasted by situation is the result of a re- there would be a flow of mail VC port from the Undergraduate on the subject into the presi- SAIGON {ff) — North Vietna- toon is usually 45 men. Although only 5,000 Marines he added heavy U.S. air attacks in the former imperial capital. The Student Government three dent's office.—by Kitty Philbin mese troops mauled a Marine patrol At daybreak the mist "and fog defend Khe Sanh, there are scores may force them to jnodify their U.S. Command said a search of the and blocked a rescue platoon 800 lifted slightly for , the first time in of thousands of other Leather- strategy. palace grounds in the Citadel had yards, outside the, cp,jnbat. a_. UiS, * .Jjase .. at. week and jets -s-wept -Qver rieeks-and U;Sr Army and South " ' turned Up graves containing 140 Khe Sanh yesterday. American of- the area dropping bombs and Vietnamese troops available for But Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, enemy bodies. ficers said the Communists are napalm on the enemy troops at- chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs counterattacks against any Red in- of Staff who just ended a visit to Associated Press correspondent moving in closer by the day to tacking the Marines. vasion of the northern sector. The John Lengel reported from Hue Tic kets Ready positions for an all-out offensive Vietnam, told newsmen in Bang- An aerial observer, reported U.S. Command is depending heavily kok, Thailand, it was his belief the that residents of the city were in South Vietnam's northwest seeing Marines lying on the ground struggling to bring back some sort corner. ' on air strikes also. enemy would not attack because and Communist soldiers' swarming he would have to pay "loo dear a of semblance of life, but that they U.S. strategists in Saigon say through the area just before the Gen.