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Includes choice of Potato or Rice Pilaf and Texas Toast. Student I.D. needed. | ! 6145 o St. 488-2802 v _J Order your college ring NOW J( )STENS * SC More than ever, more than a bookstore. m » 1300 "Q" Street 476-0111 • Open Mon thm Fri 8-5 30, Thure til 9, Sit 9-5.30 ■ Su Offer Good Sept. 4 - 15,1990. Mortgage pays for books . , .. Fon man, kisses create book-buying hell “Welcome to English 215, Intro duction to Women’s Literature. For this course you will need to buy three books.” “Welcome to English 210, Litera ture of Agriculture. For this course you will need to buy six books.” “Welcome to Sociology 398, The Vietnam Experience. For this course you will need to buy this huge packet from Astro’s Copy Center.” “Welcome to Theatre 410, Light ing Design. For this course you will need to buy this big, fat, hardbound textbook.” “Welcome to Political Science 108, Introduction to Political Ideas. For this course, you will need to buy more books than your dinky little minds can comprehend.” Welcome to book-buying hell. Never before have I had a semester in which I needed to buy more books. After receiving all of my syllabi... syllabusscs ... syllabiesusses, what ever, I counted no fewer than 20 books that were required reading. Knowing full well I was too poor for such a hefty investment, I imme diately went crying to my mom. “Mom,” I simpered. “It’s time for me to buy books again.” “Are you shopping at one of the campus bookstores?’ ’ she asked with dread in her voice. “Yes, Mom, that’s the only place they sell all the books I need,’ ’ I said. “Sol suppose this means ...” “Yes, Mom, another mortgage on the house.” We went to the bank to square away the papers for the ninth mort gage on my Mom’s humble home, one for each semester I’d been at the university. Then, with money in hand, I headed down to the bookstore to buy my own little library. I slithered down the street in the reactor-core heat of the midday Ne braska sun. I approached the book store intent on getting in and out as soon as possible. Before I could even get in the building, however, I was accosted at the door. “Would you like a Fon card?” Huh!? “Get your very own Fon card. We’ll give you this crummy little frisbee if you’ll only order a Fon card! Please!” My path was blocked by a frothing employee of the Fon card telephone company “I’ll order one of your cards,” I said. “As soon as you morons learn how to spell phone.” “PLEASE! Don’t you want to be like all of your friends! You must have one of these cards! They’ll make your life so much easier.” “If you want to make my life Jim Hanna L_~ easier,” I said, “you’ll pull your tongue off of the pavement and get out of my way.” I then gave the Fon card represen tative a good head fake and ran past him into the bookstore. The inside of the store was a madhouse. Students were running about buying books, supplies and cute little over-priced knick-knacks. At the front of the store stood a man on a soapbox with a megaphone. “Please believe me,” he was say ing. “We don’t set the prices here. It’s the publishers. I swear on a stack of bibles. We have absolutely noth ing to do with the insane prices you are paying for your textbooks. If we could, we’d give them away because we love you students so much.’’ I quickly figured that this was a manager of the bookstore. Sweat was streaming down his face and his eyes bulged in the frenzy of his plea. —i--- i “I know many of you think that we price the books here but I must reiterate: The publishers set the prices, not your good friends here at the the bookstore. In any event, don’t de spair. As you know, you can sell your books back to us at the end of the semester at the very pleasing rate of .003 cents on the dollar. Just think, money back at the end of the semester so that you can buy yummy candy treats and rock ‘n’ roll albums -- all courtesy of your dear friends at the bookstore. You can bet the villains at the publishing company won ’ t do that for you. Please, please, you’ve got to believe me.” He then broke down and started to cry. I decided I’d seen enough and headed off to buy my books. I strolled by the cash registers and toward the stairs going up. Wham! From nowhere, I was flattened by the rolling body block of an unseen employee. She quickly pounced on my chest, grabbed me by the collar and bellowed into my mortified face. “Please, leave your backpack on one of the shelves we have conven iently provided at the front of the store!” “Certainly. I’m sorry,” I said, still shaken. “By the way,” she chirped with a big grin appearing on her face. “Would you like a coupon book and a sam pling of these new Hershcy Kisses See HANNA on 13 —r-—-1 Loans from Union Bank & Trust can help smooth the rocky road to COLLEGE Union Bank & Trust can help fi nance your education through ^ a variety of loan programs in* eluding; •Stafford Loans (Formerly GSL)T^ •Supplemental Loans for Students ^ -? (SLS) *^8 •Parent Loans (Plus) •Consolidation Loans) ror more imormation or loan applications, stop in and see us at The Reunion or at the Union fTTIllNION RANK Bank and 7 rust Offices, 1944 “O Street, or call mUm* & trust company US toll free. 483-8278 We have money to learn!