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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. B Ig r rice5 stated. Students could sell their books for a higher Dickerson's plan would be based on the present e if price the books required for each course were bookstore policy for buying and selling used books.' changed less frequently than everyone or two The bookstore buys books that will be used during semesters. Students wanting to buy books would the succeeding semester at 50 per cent of their have a large supply of used books to chose from. list price, and used books are sold for 75 per cent Th e Boo kstore's DilemmG Dickerson said that the bookstore would not suffer of their list price. from its reduced volume of sales if required texts A student .. who bought a book new would receive were changed less frequently than they presently 50 per cent of the list price when he sold the book By MIKE JONES are. back to the bookstore. This student would effectively Current Associate Editor "The bookstore realizes, quite frankly, that if spend 50 per cent of the list price for the book. a given book was used every semester, the sales A student who bought the used book would pay of the bookstore would go down drastically, but 75 percent of the list price and ~ould receive 50 so would the operating costs of the bookstore and Continued on Page 5 Council Asks For Court Opinion on Day Election - The Central Council has reques­ spring that a new day 'school stu­ conduct of student elections. ted that the chief justice of the dent election must be held. The The controversial requirement Student Court make a "definite election had been contested be­ that the Student Court act on the statement" on whether a newelec­ cause of an error in the voting appeal of election protests within tion for day school representa­ instructions on one of the voting five days was retained in the by­ tives needs to be held. machines. laws. Several representatives had The council meeting Sunday was Student president Barry Kauf­ complained that it is unrealistic also disrupted by a loud argument man claims that no record ex­ to expect the court to render a between representatives Pete ists of such a decision by the decision in so short a time. Muckerman and John Heithaus· in court. Kaufman said that the Dean The election bylaws aiwo require w h i c h Muckerman cursed Heit­ of Student Affairs' office, which the chairman of the election sub­ haus. keeps the court's records, has committee of the council to in­ The argument was over the qual­ confirmed that such a decision is spect the voting machines for ac­ ifications of Rich Conrad, whom not recorded 'in either written or curate voting instructions ata pub­ the Appointments and Elections tape recorded minutes of the court lic ceremony immediately before committee had nominated for the sessions. the election. court. The committee, chaired by Bittner admits that he has not The appointments of Thomas Muckerman, had made the appoint­ been able to locate "certain items" Lane to the Student Court and of ment to fill a vacancy made by the in the records of the court ses­ Bob Lamberg and Gail Goldstein apparent inability of representa­ sions. When asked what items to the University Program Board tive and court member Margie he could not find, Bittner said were approved. Kranzberg to remain on the court. that he "would prefer not to com­ A motion to reduce noise in the Council bylaws, adopted earlier ment on that." library was presented by Dave in the meeting, prohibit council In other actions Sunday, the Kravitz. The motion would estab- L...... Professor Richard Resb eumines a few of the tapes be has made in members from serving on the council approved bylaws for the Continued on Page 4 court. The council decided to let conversations with various members of the black community of St. Miss Kranzberg remain' on the Louis. Current Photo by CARL DOTY court since she had been appoint­ ed to the court before the bylaws .New Student Vote Set were adopted. The nomination of New student elections for the illg. Applications must be returned Conrad was withdrawn. Central Council will be held Oct. to the council mailbox, marked to Living History The request for a statement by 28 and 29, according to John Heit­ the attention of Heithaus, before the court is the result of confus­ haus, chairman of the electi,ons 5 p.m. on Oct. 21. Topes on Block St. Louis ion among the council members subcommittee of the council. over a ruling by the couri on a All freshmen and new students Stressing the importance of the By MATT MATTINGLY Current Staff Writer contested council election last are eligible to run in the elec­ elections, Heithaus said that "to Richard Resh, assistant professor of history, recently provided the spring. tion. Applications and ·an infor­ make a student government ef­ university archives with extensive materials dealing with the black Chief justice Herb Bittner stat­ mation brochure are available in fective requires input from all community of St. Louis. members of the student body." ed that the court had ruled last room 117, Administration Build- Resh compiled audio tapes and David Grant, both active in the lo­ microfilm records last summer cal NAACP; journalists N.A. while .doing research on the reac­ Sweets and Nannie Mitchell Turn­ tion of black St. Louisans to World er; professors Alice Smart and Study of Student Affairs War II. Reba Mosby; Judge Nathan B. "The collection is an extremely Young, an authority on jazz; for­ rich one," Resh said. "It includes mer boxer Henry Armstrong, and the scrapbooks o( the St. Louis McNeal. Administratio.n Initiated March on Washington Movement, "Some of the information pre­ a group which engaged in mass The Alliance for Peace has es­ The decision to create the com­ Lantz (sociology). Others may be sented in these recollections is demonstrations against discrimin­ tablished a commission to review mission was spurr~d by "a lot of added later, Shower said. available in no other form and ation in employment, and the taped the operation of the Office of Stu­ little things that have gone wrong we're fortun.ate to capture it on All Alliance officers were dis­ reminiscences of many prominent dent Affairs. and a lot of things that could be tape while the interviewees are qualified from serving on the com­ Negro leaders." The purpose of the study is to done," Shower commented. still available," Resh said. mission so that "there can be no The scrapbooks, now on micro­ make recommendations to Dean "Perhaps the office could use He added that one woman's rem­ of Student Affairs David R. Ganz, claims of it being controlled by film, consist of some 700 clippings, iniscences might have been lost an' outside source to prompt their anyone," he declared. on changes "which might make the correction," he said. memos, telegrams, and letters. forever had her story not been office more responsive to the needs Testimony will be invited froll. Ganz expressed support for the They were provided by state sena­ taped, since she died recently. of students and the university," ac­ the university public as well as idea, saying that he was "recep­ tor T. D. McNeal, a member of the "This is just the kind of ma­ cording to president Mike Shower. personnel in the various divisions tive and appreciative" of the re­ Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por­ terial that historians need so bad­ Shower reported that the com­ within the office. view. Stephanie Kreis, director ters and the director of the St. ly," he said, describing the rem­ mission would review "the polic­ Nominees for the commission, of university programming, also Louis unit of the March on Wash~ iniscences as "highly personal, ies, procedures and personnel" in­ which will consist of no more than expressed support for the idea.