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Bookstores eager to sell used books
By CAMI BROWN
Reporter
A student’s stack of' required
books is a monument to the
tflcorn
long hours spent getting a col
lege education. It takes an aver
age of four years to build the
monument and the process is
slow, painstaking and expen
sive.
One way college students
have found to reduce the cost of
buying books is to buy used
ones. It’s no secret. Anyone can
see that buying a used book in
good condition for $30 is a bet
ter deal than buying the new
book at $40.
But is it such a great a deal
when you sold that same book
to the bookstore for $20? That’s
at least $10 you lose by selling
through the bookstore.
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Memorial Student Center
Bookstore managers, how
ever, say it is a good deal. To
them, both the student and the
store will benefit from buying
and selling used books.
Here’s how it works:
A student who had bought a
new book sells it back to the
bookstore for half of what he
paid. The store prices the book
at one and a half times what it
paid the student for it.
In numbers, it would work
this way:
You buy a book for $20. The
store buys it back for $10, then
ads half of that ($5) and prices
the book for sale as a used book
at $15.
“I would sell all used books if
I could,” said Texas A&M
Bookstore Manager Howard
DeHart. “We make a 33 percent
profit on them. But the stu
dents at A&M jusl doni
them back. We buy ever)#
them we can get.”
So why can’t you alwaii
back your used books?
Because of the riskinvt
And it is riskier fori
bookstores than others,
pending on how muchofl
sales are from the used to
The big gamble for
See BOOKS page 5
Aggie dancers to hold
auditions for C&W club
By LYNN RAE POVEC
Reporter
The Aggie Wranglers, the
only University-recognized per
forming Cou ntry-Western
dance club in the nation, will
hold auditions May 2.
The Wranglers were orga
nized last January by Kimberlee
Norris, a senior journalism ma
jor, and Fred Billings, a senior
agricultural economics major.
Norris said a public relations
course she is taking provided
the incentive to form the club.
She had had the idea, but it
wasn’t until she became in
volved in trying to recruit enter
tainment for a Robertson
County festival that she started
the ball rolling. The class
helped promote the festival.
“Somebody came to me and
asked, ‘Do you know of a per
forming C&W group?’, and I
said, ‘Light bulb,”’ Norris said.
Norris said she and Billings
then contacted people who had
expressed a past interest in a
club. They advertised with post
ers and flyers on campus and
held auditions at the end of Jan
uary.
Norris and Billings judged
the tryouts, and chose six other
couples to be Wranglers.
“We both felt qualified just
because we’d taught,” Norris
said. Billings had taught jitter
bug classes, and Norris had
taught C&W.
The Wranglers practiced for
a couple of hours one night a
week until the week before the
fair, when they practiced seve
ral times.
Norris said the dancers had
trouble learning to set their
dance steps to the count of
eight.
“The hardest part of getting
everybody together was teach
ing them that on ‘one’ your
hands have to join and on ‘two’
you all have to be back facing
the crowd,” Norris said.
Norris made up the routine,
a double-time two-step, that the
group performed”at the festival
to the song Rocky Mountain
Music. The dancers practice in
the lobby of Zachry because,
Norris said, it’s the only place
they’ve found that is big enough
that doesn’t have carpeting.
Norris said next fall the
members of the club would like
to have a repertoire of dances,
including a fast polka and a jit
terbug.
The club will also have a cho
reography committee, Wran
gler Sheila Fletcher said. It will
be responsible for making up a
new routine for each perfor
mance. She said the members
will take turns serving on the
committee.
Fletcher and Wrangler
Brenda Habegger agree that it
is the women in the club who
make most of the decisions and
do most of the organizing for a
performance.
“The guys lead the dancing,
and the girls lead the show,”
Habegger said.
Norris said that next year the
club will be paid for its perfor
mances.
“We don’t intend to make a
profit off of it,” Norris said.
to covei
“We just need
costs.”
The Wranglers now pi
the outfits they perforait
for their transportation
performance.
Fletcher said that herfj
part of being an Aggie!
gler is dancing, but shes
spending time with the
l>ers of the dub because
said, everyone is really dost
Norris expressed thei
opinion.
“The funniest ihinj
the whole deal was than
we first started, all«
thought that everyonew
ing or engaged to mau
person they were dancinti
— every one of us," Noni
“As it turned out, allol
relationships were platoiw
really fun that way.”
She said those whoaitj
dancers and want to ha«
may join Aggie Wranglm
said the club is lookingfoi
pie who know how toil
C&W, are coordinated am!
learn new dance steps.
“We are recommends
suggesting that people
out for Aggie Wranglers*
out with someone theyit
ting," Norris said. “Itworli
better that way."
Those who want tojoif
Wranglers but do not
dance partner may come!
club’s meeting in the loll*
Zachry Monday, April 3D.
p.m.
Tryouts for the clubwl
7 p.m. Wednesday,
the Zachry lobby.
Crime Stoppers seeking i
on hubcap, tire felony theft
Crime Stoppers needs your
help with any information you
might have concerning a felony
theft that occurred on Satur
day, March 31 about one mile
north of Sandy Point Rd. on FM
2818 at R. T. Montgomery’s.
Four dump trucks were
parked at this location. Thieves
entered the area, blocked up
the axels on the trucks ad
23 tires and inset I
brand name on the tirest
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len and these are vali*
neai $5,000.
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on the persons respon|
this theft, of the local®
these stolen tires, call
Stoppers at 775-TIPS,
call your information
week and it leads to ant
and a grand jury indict'
Crime Stoppers will pa)
$1,000 in cash. Wlien)«
you will he issued a if
coded number to protect
identity.
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