Elv MATT 111AUIVIS
How many of you have
gone through the first few
weeks of a semester without
having your required
textbooks because the
bookstore is out of them?
One hundred, two hundred,
possibly five hundred of
you. Whatever the number
is, the point of the matter
remains the same:
bookstore should have a
large enough quantity of
textbooks AT ME BEGINNING
OF THE SEMESTER - not weeks
into the semester. This is
a very serious flaw in the
Penn State system because
it prevents the student
from completing his/her
required assignments. This,
in turn, causes the student
to fall far behind. The
result is detrimental: poor
grades produced by the
student.
1911 IIIDIF~IIA
A Sign of the Times
Many of you know me
personally or at least know
me by recognition. You've
seen me working in the
campus bookstore at various
thus,
tithes;
association. lam able to
write this editorial based
upon my experiences while
working there over the
course of one and a half
years. I say this because
there are going to be
individuals who are not
going to appreciate what I
am about to say in the
upcoming paragraphs. These
individuals might accuse me the number of books ordered
of distorting the facts or
possibly slander against
the Penn State system, the
Hazleton campus, and
individuals mentioned in
this editorial. Yet what
am about to tell you is the
honest truth - a truth that
needs to be made aware to
you, the student.
I am going to explain
to you in careful detail
why books are not present
upon the shelves at the
bookstore when you go there
in order to purchase them.
Prior to the commencement
of the semester, lists of
all the scheduled classes
are fed into the computer
- including the
system
enrollment in each and
every class. The numerical
value, which is projected
upon the screen, determines
from the companies by the
bookstore. Management. then
decides upon how many books
are to be ordered.
You would think that
management would order the
amount of books based upon
this information. In sane
cases, it does. However, in
most instances, management
fails to do so for a number
of reasons. One reason is
because the publishers'
price is too steep for
management to expend
funding for. It concludes
that it would be more cost
efficient to purchase books
f ram a used book company,
Now, before I
continue, I should state
that there is nothing wrong
with using a used textbook
providing it is the
CORRECT textbook.
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