New business offers textbook exchange
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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.”
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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.
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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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lution thanking Beyke for her devo
tion during 13 years woriang for ASUN.
Arneson, Arts and Sciences Sen.
Chris Potter and Sigerson co-spon
sored the bill.
“With everything that’s gone on,
people should realize we are behind
Marlene and this is a good way of
saying it,” Ameson said.
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.
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Beginning midnight Tuesday,
Sept. 11
1:32 a.m. — Window broken,
screen damaged, Platte Valley
building, 820 R St., S50.
7:25 a.m. - Shrubbery tom up,
north side of Cather Residence
Hall, $25.
; 10:57 a an. - Follow up on theft,
Military and Naval Science
Building.
1:11 p.m. — Follow up on bur
glary, Hamilton Hall.
2:12 p.m. — Follow up on hit
and-run accident.
2:24 p.m. - Bicycle stolen.
Cather Residence Hall bike rack,
$300.
2:34 p.m. ~ Bicycle stolen. Love
Memorial Hall, $150.
2:47 p.m. - Bicycle stolen,
Harper-Schramm-Smith com
plex bike rack.
3:16 p.m. -- Burglary, 1601 R
St., $35 damage.
3:24 p.m. — Bicycle stolen,
Architecture Hall bike rack,
$700.
3:29 p.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, Harper-Schramm-Smith
complex parking lot, SI00.
6:09 p.m. — Man hit in head
with ball. Triangle fraternity,
1235 N. 16th St., treated at the
University Health Center.
11:40 p.m. - Door glass bro U
ken. Love Library, $200.
