Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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Hooksiore cashitr I ina Billing couldn t liclp Liuf hinj; at State student Greg Murray, who gives a U)ok ot disheliet after hearing the total amount lor books. The new MSU Bookstore, located in the mini-mall, carries only textbooks and magazines. The students who work there are always willing to help others find the right books for their courses. Buying Books ... Is It Really Worth It 21

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Buying Books ...Is It Really Worth It? Would you like to see a grown man cry? Just visit the LIniversity Bookstore or the Bookmart the first week of school in the fall or spring. A student will go to class and find out he needs three times as many books as he has classes. Then he is off to the book- store. But wait, it ' s moved. He finds it in a new mall over by where the florist used to be. Tears well up in his eyes as the cashier pushes those buttons over and over again. $137.83! It is really worth it.- The student keeps thinking that maybe he can do without one of the books . . . maybe two of the books . . . What about halt of the books. But he recalls that last spring when he finally decided to buy the book and found that the bookstore was out and no more were ordered that late into the semester. He rips the check out of his checkbook and hands it to the smiling cashier. He begins to think of himself as a real brain. Maybe this year he ' ll read all of the books. As he heads toward the door, the cashier hollers after him, You ' re not really going to read all those, are you.- L. Ivey Carl Mack isn ' t very happy about the stack of books he knows he ' ll need for the coming year. 20 Li

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