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Article Describes 'Dream' Bookstore
By CAROL KUNKLEMAN
Students -at North Carolina
State College aren't groaning
these days about crowded con
ditions and limited facilities
when purchasing books not
when they have a spacious,
$350,000 campus bookstore at
their disposal.
While students on this campus
have been attempting to get a
University-run bookstore and stu
dents on other campuses have
been operating stores in primitive
basements, North Carolina's stu
dents have been making use of
the sleek 185-by-60-foot structure
for the past year.
A description of this dream
store is given by Bernadette
Hoyle and Clement L. Chambers
in the May 29, 1960 issue of
Publisher's Weekly magazine.
The building is considered one
of the most beautiful on the col
lege's campus.
And the main points for ad
miration lie inside the structure.
To start with, iho main selling
Quick Action
Pledged On
Constitution
Dr. Laurence H. Lattman,
chairman of the Senate Com-',
mittee for Student Affairs,'
said last night that his com-;
mittee will review the new,
SGA Constitution as soon as he'
officially .-receives it.
"This will be done as soon as'
possible," Lattman said, "for it;
is important to get. SCA back on!
its feet and meeting again."
The proposed constitution, be
gun over three months ago, will
be given to Robert E. Dunham,
instructor in parliamentary law,
today for re-wording, Dennis
Foianini, SGA President, said
last night.
Elections for a new Assembly
will be held sometime this fall
--hopefully within one month,
Foianini said
"SCA can't hold its elections
before the Constitution is ap
proved," Lattman said, "because
they are now a derunct body."
Last spring the Student Affairs
Committee gave SGA a tempo
rary charter to write a new con
stitution and now that the pro
ject has been completed the body
has no charter under which to
operate. -
"Another reason for the hold
up in election proceedings is
that they have been revised and
are prescribed in the constan
t ution which has yet to receive
approval," Lattman said.
The proposed elections system
provides one Assembly seat for
about 500 undergraduate students
at the University.
This re-vamps an earlier system
whereby Assemblymen were
elected by class according to a
set number of seats alloted to
each class.
Foianini conunented last night
on the end-product of the As
sembly's,efforts to revise SGA's
structure: "I'm very pleased that
the long struggle is over. I have
high hopes that the Senate Com
mittee for Student Affairs will
work on it as rapidly as possible."
"It is a good one. Soon we will
have left behind the internal
workings of SGA so that we can
start working on the real prob
lems that concern the students,"
he said.
BIKE
REPAIRS
PARTS
ACCESSORIES
Western Auto
200 W. College Ave.
AD 7-7992
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
floor occupies 10,000 square
feet and is a retailer's as well
as a student's dream of space
and efficiency. The book de
partment, which comprises the
largest part of the selling
floor, measures more than 4,000
square feet.
Self-service is the keynote of
the sales plan. And to top it all
off, the whole store is air-condi
tioned.
In addition to the book depart
ment, the main floor carries
merchandise lines tailored to fit
the needs of students in any of
the college's curriculums.
The master plan of traffic flow
is worked out to guide the cus
tomers through displays to the
books, which are placed at the
rear of the store.
Custom - designed fixtures of
light cherry, backed with maple,
house the some 20,000 textbooks
the store boasts. Paperback titles
are also displayed in these fix
lures face out, five copies deep.
The fixtures, similar to those
made for other departments, are
designed for flexibility. They
are built on bases ten inches from
AWS Pian IN MI
(Continued from page one)
larger turnout at elections be
cause upperclasswomen will have
a chance of knoWing more of the
nominees. She also. explained that
in the past, there were often the
same number of applicants as
positions available for seniors,
therefore seniors did not need to
vote. This will be eliminated with
the new system, for all upper
classwomen will be competing for
the same positions.
Students will vote according to
the year of entrance to the Uni
versity which is printed on their
matriculation cards and transfer
students will vote for freshman
representatives, she explained.
Applications for AWS elections
are due at noon today, and vot
ing will take place Thursday.
THE PENN STATE
BOOK EXCHANGE
Slide Rules
Drawing Instruments
Architects and Engineers Scales
Erasers
French Curves
Non-Profit
the ground, are movable and can
be rearranged in ten minutes on
the terrazzo floor.
Stand-up counters and self
service toasters equip the glass
walled snackbar.
An unusual and perhaps
unique feature of the book de
partment is the Freshman Book
Room, temporarily located for
two weeks at the beginning of
each semester in the storage
area. This operation services
only freshmen, and at the end
of the two-week period is in
corporated into the regular.
book department.
Although the store is located on
and owned by North Carolina
State College, it is operated by a
professional manager hired by
the school and students are em
ployed as sales and stock person
nel.
The college started ifs own
bookstore in 1944 when it decided
to purchase a bookstore that was
operated on a consignment basis
by a downtown merchant in the
basement of a dormitory. The
college then hired the merchant
as its store manager.
(Located on the Ground Floor of the HUB)
OPEN ... 9:30 a.m, to 5:00 p.m.
Carries A Full Line
Approved Engineering Supplies
BUY ALL YOUR SCHOOL SUPPLIES
SAVE MONEY WE REFUND 50c
WORTH OF RECEIPTS.
Wednesday Announced
As Drop-Add Deadline
Students must file all drop-adds
for the fall term by 5 p.m.
Wednesday in the basement of.
Willard. With the adoption of the l
four-term plan, the deadline for
dropping or adding courses isi
now within the first ten days'
of a term.
According to rule J-3 of the
Senate Regulations, a student
may not drop a course after the
first ten calendar days of a term
without the written approval of
the dean of his college. The rule
also states that unsatisfactory
scholarship may not be consider
ed a reason for such authoriza
tion.
September Record--
(Continued front page five)
nights, which is probably a rec
ord for the month. Unfortunately
records of fog have not been main
tained with great accuracy
through the years, so comparison
of fog frequency cannot be made.
Gazette
Buy at the BX
STUDENT OPERATED
TODAY
Interlandla Folk Dance, 7:30 p.m., HUB
Ballroom.
IVCF, "Red River of Life" Film, 7:30
P.m., 121 Sparks.
of University
• Drawing Boards
• Pencils
• T-Squares
30°, 60', 90' and 45' Triangles
® Miscellaneous
AT THE BX
FOR EVERY
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER .29. 1961
Bookstore—
(Continued from page one)
said that he would wait for an
official statement from Walker.
The Board of Trustees meet
Oct. 13, and though it is expected
that the report will again be
presented to them, this probably
won't be known unless an official
statement is - made. It is the
board's policy to keep all agenda
items secret before the meeting.
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