New business offers textbook exchange fty M/nro ooirl (Katr ora uiAmA^ nk/v..4 r By Anita Parker Staff Reporter Buying textbooks could drive a person intc bankruptcy. A month ago, however, it drove Randy Ware and Roger German to launch theii own business. Ware and German came up with the idea ol starting the business after Ware’s first book buying experience. “I was talking about how my daughter was starting college and I had to pay for her books,” Ware said. German, a graduate student, identified with the problem, Ware said. After talking for a while, they came up with the idea of starting a service, he said. They began the Bookfinder Service, a business thal lists textbooks students want to sell. “We wanted to find a way to get the people who wanted to buy books and the people who wanted to sell books together,” German said. Ware said the process is simple. The stu dents send in a list of books they want to sell and the titles are entered into a computer, he said. When students write in requesting books, the titles are matched with books for sale. Then a list of the names and phone numbers of the students who have the books to sell are sent to the students who want to buy them, Ware said. “I think the students may see us as someone else trying to gouge them,” Ware said. “But if they look at the prices, they can’t think that’s what it is.” The service costs the student wanting to buy books $ 1 for postage and 50cents for each book requested, German said. The 50-cent-per-book fee is refunded for any book the service doesn t find. The price of the book is decided between the two students. • ‘If we don’t find any books for the student, it will only cost them a dollar,” German said. There is no fee for students wanting to sell books. “We just want to provide a service,” Ware said. “We’re not really in it for the money.” What their business needs is exposure, German said. He and Ware have advertised and put posters up around campus, he said. “We need people to send in the books they know they are going to want to sell at the end of the semester right now,” he said. “We want to get the word out, so that when the end of the semester comes and kids want books, we II already have a listing of books to work from.” v “vvui ^wmusion resulting from an influx of people trying to buy and sell at the end of the semester. y Although the service now serves only the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, German said it possibly could expand to include Omaha and Kearney. “The ideal situation would be an office at the (Nebraska) union,” Ware said. For the moment, though, their aspirations are small, Ware said. “This is not our major business; it’s just a sideline job. We want to keep it going for a year or two until we Find out whether it will work or not,” he said. Both Ware and German are carpenters in Lincoln. “We figure all students have to get through this book thing,” German said. “Anything wc can do to decrease the cost a little would be worth it.” Speed bumps installed near Selleck By Kelly Ann Kennedy Staff Reporter Motorists have been hitting the brakes in frontof Sellcck Quadrangle. Two speed bumps were installed on 15th Street in front of Selleck on Aug. 31 to prevent accidents in the high-traffic area, said Lt. John Burke, University of Nebraska-Lmcoln park ing administrator. The narrow street, parked vehicles on the east side of the street, pedestri ans, and the high number of handi capped students living in Selleck make the street more dangerous, Burke said. Lt. Ken Caublc of the UNL Police Department said the street had been a problem area. He recalled no specific incidents, but said the speed bumps could help prevent future accidents. Burke said he hasn’t received any complaints about the speed bumps and believes that once people realize the bumps were installed as a preven tive step, they would understand. The Parking Advisory Committee and Ray Coffey, business manager for business and finance, approved the idea last spring after police sug gested it “One of our suggestions was to close the street down, period, but we realized that couldn’t be done,” Cauble said. The speed bumps were put in by Cather & Sons Construction Com pany of Lincoln. The cost was $75 per bump. Along with the speed bumps, two signs have been put up on 15th Street to warn drivers of the bumps and that it is an area where handicapped people cross. New curb cuts for wheelchair access and a new entrance to the parking area in front of Selleck also are a part of the plan to reduce the chances of an accident or injury on 15th Street, Burke said. Transfer Continued from Page 1 most of the recent increases, Boettcher said, since two-thirds of UNL students transfer from col leges within Nebraska. Many students transfer from the Southeast Community College-Lin coln campus and Southeast Com munity College-Beatricc campus, Boettcher said. Other colleges with high num bers of students transferring to UNL are Northeast Community College Norfolk campus, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Kearney State College and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Many freshmen who go to out of-state colleges return to Nebraska after their freshman year and are counted as out-of-state transfer students, Boettcher said. Transfer students make up one fourth of the undergraduate popu lation at UNL. The number of new transfer students at UNL was 1,136 in 1989. This compares to 1,138 in the fall of 1988, 980 in the fall of 1987 and 1,050 in the fall of 1986. 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Potter said the resolution updates a similar one passed a few years ago. “I imagine that anyone who knows Marlene knows she is all of these things ...” Potter said. In other action, senators voted to amend their bylaws to keep ASUN members serving on the Committee for Fees Allocation from voting on ASUN’s budget. In case of a be among CFAmembers-at-large, ASUN mem bers each would have a vote. New Reunion store offers food, tanning From Staff Reports Munchies and more are available at the Popcorn King and Ice-Cream Avalanche that opened Labor Da> weekend in The Reunion. Owner A1 Schuller said, ‘‘Wc arc the only place on campus where you can walk in and purchase notebooks, No-doz, snacks and stop at a tanning bed on the way out.” The store offers a selection of gourmet popcorn, hard pack frozen yogurt, drugstore items and tanning beds at the Suntanna Cabana. Store hours arc 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday. |P