University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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r am waiting for my number to be called and I am waiting for the living end and I am waiting for dad to come home his pockets full of irradiated silver dollars and I am waiting for the atomic tests to end and I am waiting happily for things to get much worse before they improve and I am waiting for the Salvation Army to take over and I am waiting for the human crowd to wander off a cliff somewhere clutching its atomic umbrella and I am waiting for Ike to act and I am waiting for the meek to be blessed land inherit the earth without taxes and I am waiting for forests and animals to reclaim the earth as theirs and I am waiting for a way to be devised to destroy all nationalisms without killing anybody and I am waiting for linnets and planets to fall like rain and I am waiting for lovers and weepers to lie down together again in a new rebirth of wonder

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Brother Conan Moran. C.S C.. the manager of operations of the bookstore, is a congenial, talkative man Brother Conan was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1928 He was as- signed to the bookstore as a clerk in 1939 when the bookstore was located where the barber shop and travel bureau are now. In 1955. the bookstore operation was enlarged and moved into the Hammes Bookstore Building, so named after Romy Hammes. South Bend Ford dealer, who contributed the money to construct the building. The bookstore is still crowded and gets more so every year. Brother Conan says. If the number of textbooks and things used in class keep expanding like they have in the last ten years, we ' ll need a lot more room. The students are using a lot more books than they did 1 years ago. I ' ll assure you that. When asked about the typical Notre Dame student. Brother Conan replied that on the whole, they ' re fine young men. He feels the average Notre Dame student is a serious young man who is meeting the challenge of the times. Although he feels the students have to work harder now. he thinks that they ' re better trained. A lot of parents come in and tell me now that the students are doing this and doing that, but I tell them, because I knew a number of them back when they were here, that they did much of the same thing. As a group, the students are equally as good as any groups we ' ve had in the past. Although he did not have the exact figures. Brother Conan stat- ed that since all the profits of the bookstore go to the University in the general fund and general operating expenses, if the bookstore went out of business, the tuition of each student would conceiva- bly rise. When asked about the shoplifting versus security. Brother Con- an stated. In institutional accounting, it ' s hard to determine exact loss from theft Loss has increased in the past couple years and it ' s higher than it should be. We are hoping that the security we ' ve added will be helpful but we won ' t be sure until a year. It ' s not just students either, it ' s everybody. When asked about the reputation of the bookstore for exhorbi- tant prices. Brother Conan replied. We prefer to sell plain mer- chandise. It would be much easier to handle and certainly be cheaper. But you put plain merchandise out there and it doesn ' t sell For instance, a ceramic mug can be bought plain for 20% less than we sell it. but if you go down and see what the manufacturer has to do to get the decal in place and fire it in there so that it will stay, it costs much more. Or try and get a box of plain stationary and bring it downtown to have it engraved with a Notre Dame emblem and find out what it will cost. We have plain stationary down there, but we sell very little. I ' d like to sell it cheaper. He feels that students are not justified in griping about prices when prices are compared in a logical way. If quality and quantity are compared, he feels the prices are right. He visits college stores around the country and knows what they are doing on campuses today Brother Conan noted that since most products are supplied by the same manufacturer, one would most likely find our book- store with the same or even lower prices. We ' re not out to rob anybody I feel we can make a just profit and still do all right. We do a good volume, we know our business and we put a lot of effort into it. and that means an awful lot. Manager of the Bookstore Brother Conan Moran )K DEPT. ci

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Faculty Class of 1971 .t, Tr- Education is hanging around until you catch on. Robert Frost