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Daily Nebraskan
Monday, August 23, 1982
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Sierra Club plans chapter
The Bluestem Group of the Sierra
Club is forming a committee to help
the environmental organization gain re
cognition as a campus organization.
"By forming a student organization
on campus, we hope to provide the cam
pus community with a direct means of
education and involvement in environ
mental issues and activities that increase
awareness and appreciation of Nebras
ka's ecosystems," Beth Spaugh, Blue
stem chairperson, said.
Jane Davie, a Sierra Club member,
said that to gain recognition, they must
go through ASUN for approval.
"We have a document describing the
purpose of the club with five club mem
bers' signatures and the signature of
a faculty member who is also a member
of Sierra. We are going to submit it to
ASUN tomorrow (Monday)," Davie, a
junior majoring in general agriculture,
said.
A meeting for interested persons is
scheduled for tonight at 7:30 at the
Wesley House, 640 N. 16th St. A slide
narration of Terry Schoonover's trans
continental bicycle trip will be featured.
Schoonover lived in Minnesota before
embarking on his journey, but now re
sides in Lincoln.
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Prices good through
August 25
By Bill Allen
Once again, inflation hits the college
student.
The price of new textbooks have in
creased 13 percent to 15 percent over last
year's prices, Mark Oppegard, Nebraska
Bookstore manager, said.
A new Calculus 106 text that cost
$28.95 last spring, for example, now cost
$31.95. That is an increase of 9 percent.
Oppegard said the book prices are deter
mined by the latest publishers price lists.
He said the Nebraska Bookstore sends
unsold texts back to their publishers each
semester and then reorders the books for
the next semester.
Doris Siems, assistant manager of opera
tions at the University Bookstore, said this
semester's prices increased by the same
amount there as at Nebraska Bookstore.
She said the University Bookstore does
not return books to their publishers but
does raise the book price each semester
according to publishers' most recent price
list.
Both stores receive their texts from
various publishers and wholesale houses,
many of which are the same.
This may explain why an informal
survey showed there is very little difference
in the prices the two stores charge for
books.
For example, a new Chemistry 109 text
costs $29.95 in both stores. There is a
nickel difference in the text for a Biology
101 text. It costs $24.95 at the store and
$25.00 at the Nebraska Bookstore.
Similar prices were noted in genetics,
Spanish and history textbooks.
Although the union bookstore is a
branch of the university and the Nebraska
Bookstore is a private business, the union
store has the same type of overhead and
uses the same publishers, Siems said. This
could partially explain the similarity in
book prices, she said.
According to Siems, the University
Bookstore helps offset the price of the
books by sending a 5 percent discount
coupon to every registered student.
"The whole being of the union book
store is to serve the students. In order to
do this we try to keep the book prices as
cheap as possible," she said.
"That's why we offer the coupons," she
added. "The reason we started them was to
give the students a portion of their monies
back."
The university, upon request, gives the
University Bookstore a list of registered
students and their addresses.
Oppegard said the university does not
give the Nebraska Bookstore a list of stu
dents. Starting this year the union store
also will give an 8 percent discount to nurs
ing and law students, Siems said.
She said they do this because of the
higher costs of the books for these two
fields.
Siems said the University Bookstore has
not kept an accurate record of coupon use,
but said they are used heavily.
Oppegard said one way the Nebraska
Bookstore helps cut costs is to keep as
many used books in stock as possible.
In both stores, a used book costs 25 per
cent less than a new one.
This means that the Chemistry 109 text
that cost $29.95 new last year would be re
duced to $22.50 if bought used.
"About 50 percent of our books in
stock are used books," Oppegard said.
Siems said that about 25 percent of the
union store texts are used.
However, students planning their budget
also have to take into consideration the
required supplements to the texts,
Oppegard said.
For instance Chemistry 109 also
requires two workbooks, priced at $11.65
and $4.80.
NOTICE TO STUDENTS
All students are eligible to apply for a refund of their Fund "A" portion
of student fees beginning August 23, 1932 through September 24, 1982.
(A) Application forms are available at Student Activities Financial Services
Office, 222 Nebraska Union; ASUN Office, 115 Nebraska Union; or East
CAP Office, Nebraska East Union.
(B) Students who have completed a refund application and returned it
before September 24, 1932 may pick up their refund at the Student Activi
ties Financial Services Office, 222 Nebraska Union beginning September
27, 1982 through October 8, 1932.
Fund "A refund amounts are as follows.
A.S.U.N. $1.26
Dairy Nebraskan 0.90
State Student Association 0.50
University Program Council 223
TOTAL REFUND $4.94
