College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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C©m.-pl(Bte C(0)¥(giriige 500 Will Do Ya ' You and your date had just spent a very entertaining evening in Williamsburg watching the tourists on DOG street. Then it was back to your place for a grand fina- le. But wait — as you pull out your wallet, you noticed a crucial element was missing — no wonder your roommate had wanted to see your bill- fold before he spooned you last weekend. No problem . . . if you made a quick stop at the Campus Center on your way back. But one could not forget some change for the newest addition to the Cam- pus Center first floor bath- rooms — the Close Encounter Condom Dispensers. Of course, if you were out of change (and early enough), the Candy Counter was pleased to assist in your quest . . . and no, they were not priced by the pound. Yes, it was true, condoms had reached the College of Knowledge. In fact, national attention was focused on these small latex items. With the threat of AIDS, safe sex was back in style. As one fe- male resident of Yates put it, No Glove. No Love. Na- tional surveys had indicated that condom use was certain- ly on the rise. February 13- 20 was proclaimed National Condom Week, and various organizations passed out green and gold condoms on campus. Stuart West, RA in Dupont said this naturally would lead to the pick-up line Come on, show a little Tribe Pride. So how did the William and Mary student body feel about condom use? In an in- formal survey conducted by this writer, reactions were mixed. Most males seemed to support the use of condoms for safety ' s sake, feeling that using one . . . is better than getting some disease or be- coming a father. You gotta do what you gotta do. However, the reduction of sensation was a definite drawback . . . sort of like taking a shower with a raincoat on. All in all, it looked like condoms were here to stay. The threat of disease did what the threat of unwanted pregnancy did not — made safe sex a common practice. So remember, whether you condone or condemn. Con- dom. — Andy West Above: Buying condoms was some- times embarrassing. Here, students hide their identities while they pur- chase bags of condoms at the Candy Counter Right: Easier access to condoms was available to students through the machines in the Campus Center bathrooms. Although not widely known, comdoms were previously only available through the Health Center

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Below: It is advantageous for the buyer to check similar books for the lowest price. Lee Trezise , Lauren MacDonald, and Betsey Never tried to get the best price through com- parison shopping at the Bookfair Right: Bringing their final purchases to the counter at the Bookstore, Beth Ann Hollaway and Nha Le watch their bills increase with each book purchase. The prices of books at the Bookstore had risen steadily with each new edition from the publisher -IQin Where does it all go — THE SHRINKING DULLAR Samuelson ' s Economics sold for $36.95 and The National Experience Part U was $18.65 in 1985 — in 1987 they were selling for $42.55 and $23.40 respectively. The Riverside Shakespeare had a price of $32.95 in 1986 but had a price rise of over $6 in the next year Remember buying some of these books and feeling outraged at paying such sums for them? Text book prices rose 20% between 1985 and 1987. The most popular campus scapegoat was the bookstore. The bookstore was an auxil- iary service of the College, and the textbook section was a break-even business. The markups they put on the text- books were just enough to cover their costs. One of the biggest prob- lems with the bookstore ' s used book buy-back was that often they either would not buy a book back or they did not give the 50% they prom- ised. It ' s very frustrating selling books back to the bookstore. Either they give me a $1 for a $20.00 book or they won ' t take the book at all, commented one dis- gruntled student. At the end of each semester, the book- store hired a used book com- pany to handle the used book buy-back for them. The com- pany received a list from the bookstore of any titles that would be used the next se- mester. If the book a student was selling would be used the next semester, it was bought back by the bookstore for 50% of the cover price. Yet, if the book was not need- ed by the bookstore, the stu- dent was not guaranteed the 50% price. The bookstore then marked the used books up to 75% of the cover price. To cov- er sales costs, and to cover the possible losses. If a used book was not sold, the bookstore was stuck with it. Last year alone, over $8000.00 of un- sold books had to be trashed. The overall book picture for students was not bright. Publishers issued new edi- tions of books every three years on the average, simply due to the used book market. When a publisher published a new book, the first year the sales were high while succes- sive years saw sales decrease. Because many people bought the book used, and the longer the life of the edition, the more used books there were in circulation. The publisher made no money from the sec- ond-hand sale of the book, so it was in his interest to issue a new edition. It was a mad- dening situation for the stu- dent. Comments Junior Su- san Strobach, It makes me mad when they change one problem in an Accounting book and call it a new edi tion. There were alternatives for those who could not afford the high prices of new books. The biggest one was the Stu- dent Association Book Fair. SAVice President for Student Services, Tom Deutsch, esti- mated thai the spring sale had 5000 — 6000 books. About 500 — 600 students took advantage of the sale. Deutsch added that the SA was looking into other po- tential sources for bringing in a bigger and better selec- tion of books. He hoped to double the number of books available at the sale. Between new editions ev- ery three years and a 20% price increase in the last two years a student could go broke paying for books alone. The best advice around: get in line early for the book fair —Jill Walker