:!1 l)aiais candidsisf le'newl® s, or, at irties evtil devices'l? p contrik tes. Debbie “Adelaide” Frazee, (left to right) chats with Hot Box Girls Dawn Tengg, Laura Bel- lomy and Jill Moore in the Aggie Players’ pro duction of “Guys and Dolls.” The musical will run through Saturday at Rudder Theater. Photo by Janet Golub hi Post Co ariety of people may be reason for lack of texts By SHERRY WOODARD Campus Reporter Pinning the blame for book shor- ges at local bookstores on any rson may be an inaccurate way to explain the problem. The fault may lie with the profes sor, the department secretary, the publishing company or the book stores. | At least five departments said they had a book shortage this semester or last semester in some of their ! feourses. A secretary in the history depart ment said book shortages occur in history courses “over and over. ” She said many times the bookstores underestimate the number of books ceded for a course. “But this time,” she said, “it was the publisher’s fault. The company didn’t let us know they were discon tinuing the edition of the text needed for History 105 and 106. ” Dr. Alton Hassell, a chemistry professor whose Chemistry 106 class had a shortage of texts this semester, said he also blames the publishing company for the problem. “Burgess Publishing Co. put out a new edition of the text and said they’d have it ready about the end of December, in time for the spring semester,” Hassell said. “I decided to use the new edition, but about the middle of December we found out the third edition wouldn’t be ready until the end of January or the beginning of Feb ruary.” He said that would have been too late because it meant the books would get here a week after the first test. He said he decided then to use the old edition of the text, but the publishing company had stopped printing them. Hassell said most of his 425 Che mistry 106 students bought used second edition text books from sur rounding bookstores. About 80 stu dents were left out in the cold. Hassell said 50 or 60 of these stu dents finally got texts through the helpfulness of local bookstores, which got additional texts from uni versities in other Texas cities. The rest of the students ended up buying the new edition of the text when it came out. The English department did not have a shortage of books this semes ter, but did have one last semester. A secretary in the department said a former secretary was not sending in book orders to the bookstore on time. Kites snare helicopters Modern languages department head, Dr. Anne Marie Elmquist, said generally in their department shortages occur every semester. “They (campus store) don’t order enough books,” she said. I United Press International LOS ANGELES — Kite flying is “an enjoyable form of recreation” throughout the county, but Sheriff Peter Pitchess says the seemingly harmless pasttime may snare heli copters. “Helicopter pilots report they have spotted kites flying well above 500 feet — a serious problem should rotor blades become entangled in kite string,” Pitchess said. | The Federal Aviation Administra tion says kites must not be flown above 150 feet, unless the agency is notified at least 24 hours in advance. “I guess they depend on the other bookstores to order a certain percen tage, but I guess they are just not interested in foreign language books.” Loupot’s Bookstore manager Shri Parchure said, as an exairtple, next fall he wouldn’t order many political science books, “because political sci ence has a poor record for sales here. I get more of a demand for technical books.” DeHart said bookstores use this procedure of “sales history” for ordering books, because of another problem — overages. He said books not sold are sent back to the publishers for refunding, but the store must pay the freight for sending them back. Also, the stores are only allowed to return 20 percent of what was origin ally ordered. MSC Bookstore manager Howard DeHart explained the procedure for ordering books. He said the book store gives the department secretar ies and professors a deadline for sending in their book orders, usually about two months in advance. In the backroom of the MSC book store, approximately $75,000 worth of books needed to be returned. “In the last week we sent back $19,839 worth of books,” DeHart said. “Book orders for the summer semester are due in at the end of March,” DeMart said. That’s so we ll DeHart said these overages may occur because students sometimes buy books from each other. Or, like shortages, overages may be due in part to “lack of sales data. ” ce, l i dovvliai there aff ■Id. That! goode most ei" Attention Students: IMSCI area this ^ -j vvritfoij wweeW missed rpsofGi lad MSC Town Hall is in the process of conducting a random survey of 2,000 Texas A&M University students. ■town holll heeni' 1 e’d P [obl ' eeks. The results of the survey will be presented to the Town Hall selection committee, which consists of three faculty members and fifteen students, that represent a cross sec tion of campus (twelve students are non Town Hall members). The feedback from the survey and the selec tion committee will help Town Hall determine student