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Students go online to get textbooks
Alt6V1iattV6S: Turning to book providers on internet saves time, money for some people
By KAREN ORELLANA
Staff Writer
Students this semester are avoiding long lines at Pertusati University Bookstore by purchasing their textbooks from book chains on the internet which often provides a less expensive and faster shopping experience.
Online book providers such as Barnes & Noble.com often have textbooks in stock that the University Bookstore is out of, and ship the books to your door.
Bigwords.com, an internet company in San Francisco, just launched its service in September. It’s a Web-based bookstore allowing students to buy or rent new and used books.
Bigwords offers free shipping, a buy-back program and the “Tell a Friend? program which gives customers purchase credit when they refer their friends to the site.
“We consolidate nationally and bring various publishers together,” said John Bates, co-founder of Bigwords.com.
Bigwords is able to sell books at lower prices than university bookstores can because Bigwords does not have to pay rent for a store or train new student workers when old workers are going to graduate, Bates said.
In fact, Bigwords.com sells its books at a lower price than the University Bookstore pays when it buys books from the publishers, said Dan Archer, University Bookstore associate director.
Bigwords.com has many advantages, including a central warehouse in Illinois and good relationships with used-book wholesalers who offer a wide availability of books, Bates said.
“Publishers may be price discriminating and selling books to our company for less,” Bates said.
Though the prices of books may be higher, Archer said the bookstore offers many services to the university. Student employment gives students the opportunity to work on campus and provides faster service for other students.
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Entertain us. Moderator Marty Kaplan, associate dean of programs and planning for Annenberg, discusses entertainment with four panelists.
Panelists discuss entertainment
Event Members of media say news is forced to be titillating for audience
By JENNIFER KELLEHER
Assignment Editor
Panelists, which included Janet Clayton, Neal Gabler, Frank Rich and Neil Postman, discussed how almost every aspect of life is consumed by entertainment during Wednesday’s @Annenberg event. A packed crowd came for the lecture, “Is Everything Entertainment?"in the newly renovated Annenberg Auditorium.
The free afternoon talk was the first @ Annenberg event held in the new auditorium, which is “totally technologically equipped,” said Geoffrey Cowan, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication.
Clayton, editor of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times; Gabler, author of “Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality”; Postman, chair of the communication and culture department at New York University; and Rich, a columnist at The New York Times, all agreed that entertainment is dominant in news, politics and religion.
“Television is visually oriented,” Clayton said. “Television has influenced the way newspapers do things.” She talked about how newspapers sometimes have to present news in an entertaining way.
“A lot of things that come out of Washington are not entertaining.” Clayton said. “That forces newspapers to find a way to make news entertaining.”
President Clinton’s State of the Union address on Tuesday was used as an example of entertainment’s role on politics.
“Clinton is entertaining,” Postman said. He also pointed out the difference in
the way television covered the speech compared to previous years.
This year’s coverage of the President’s speech was different because cameras switched shots between Clinton and his audience, the NYU chairman said.
“Usually one camera is fixed on the talking head because it makes it easier to understand the comments of his remarks,” Postman said.
Clayton pointed out that during the
O.J. Simpson trial, news directors had to choose to either lead with the trial or the State of the Union address. Most went with the trial because it was entertaining, she said.
The panel discussed the question of whether or not politics has become theater.
“Yes,” Rich said. “Politics have been theater for a long time — since the Kenhedy-Nixbti debate. It showed how good looks could trump the content of whatever the politician was saying.”
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allocates $1.3
million for school year’s budget
budget totaled $1,325,604, including a $25,000 carryover from last year. Of that, $684,778.50 went to restricted accounts, such as staff salaries, Spectrum and the Volunteer Center, and $640,825-50 was left for senate to allocate to Program Board, senate funds and campus-wide organizations.
Organizations seeking funds directly from the Student Senate budget must suth mit a proposal outlining their request, other sources of income, events sponsored and a copy of their proposed budget This year Kyetay Beckner, senate president, and Hye-Young Park, senate treasurer, held a meeting with a representative from each of the groups to discuss changes, plans and goals.
“This made the process go much smoother,” Park said. "Our budget meeting was only 10 hours long, and historically that is short.”
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January 21,1999 Vol. CXXXVI, No. 4
Funding: Programming fee breakdown shows where students' money goes
BY JENNIFER MEDINA
Staff Writer
Every semester students see a mysterious $46 programming fee appear on their tuition bill. Most have no idea where this money goes.
With some 14,000 undergraduate students paying $92 a year for university programming, Student Senate’s budget totals more than $L3 million. While the majority of the budget is determined by the Office of Student Affairs, senate allocates more than half a million dollars each year for university organizations and student programming.
For the fiscal year of 1998-99 senate’s