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Guaranteed program makes sure students receive some money back Alex Vaughn Staff Writer
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Morgan Monday, a senior in business management, labels used books in the N.C. State Bookstore. “The week before exams is usually the busiest, and of course during exams,� Monday said of Bookstore’s Book Buyback program.
With the semester coming to an end, students are deciding the best way to their used textbooks and get the best deal on buyback prices. The campus bookstore offers 50 percent of the new price at the end of the semester for textbooks bearing a Guaranteed Buyback sticker. Tuyen Tran, textbook manager for the NCSU bookstores, said there has been a trend towards increasing the number of buybacks from students at the campus store. More information will be provided on buybacks via the bookstore Web site and e-mails this semester, Tran said. In-demand titles for buyback will be included in e-mails while a more comprehensive list will be included on the Web site, he said. “That information is going to change as books are bought back, so it’s a good source for students to be able to see what’s still needed, and then they can determine if it’s worth making the trip,� Tran said. Joshua Peavey, a sophomore in environmental technology, said he was more satisfied with the offers from other stores after shopping his used books around last summer. “Last semester I started selling them to the places up and down Hillsborough Street because they give you a little more cash,� he said. Peavey was unaware of the Guaranteed Buyback Program the campus book store offered and said he would investigate it next semester. Bobby Mills, a senior in political science and economics, said that even though prices are occasionally a little higher, he has supported using the
Students chalk football score around rival UNC campus Annie Albright Staff Writer
A group of students traveled to UNC-Chapel Hill early Monday morning to chalk “41-10,� the score of Saturday’s football game, all over campus. According to Kristin Brock, a sophomore in chemistry at UNC, the chalking was one more example of the strength of the rivalry between the two schools. “It was pretty hard to miss it,� Brock said. “The chalk was everywhere.� Brock said she noticed the chalk as she walked to her first morning class. “You know there’s a huge rift between Chapel Hill and N.C. State if a group of college students are willing to wake up before 7 a.m. to gloat,� Brock said. Student Body President Jay Dawkins, a junior in civil engineering, said he appreciated the Monday’s events. “Nothing says demoralized like walking out on a cold day and all you see is ‘41-10,’� Dawkins said. Earlier in the week, there were sightings of spray-painted N.C. State logos across the UNC campus, an act that is considered vandalism, Brock said. Dawkins said he approved of
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the more legal form of expres- primer for game-time spirit. sion. “It is something we did to “Legal is definitely the best get ourselves motivated and form of vandalism, I think, be- pumped up for the rivalry,� cause it gives them no room to she said. “I think it is a really react,� Dawkins said. “The best healthy rivalry between us, retaliation they could come up and besides, it’s a tradition.� with was not very creative.� Friday night prior to the When students in Raleigh woke game, Carolina Fever, a stuup last Wednesday morning to a dent fan club at UNC, hosted light blue Free Expression Tun- an “Old Well Watch� to pronel, many students were not tect their turf from vandaleven offended ism. because of the According lack of creativto the Daily it y, C a roly n Ta r He e l , Grady, a fresha group of man in mathN.C. State ematics educastudents tion, said. drove by “It was just around midso unoriginal,� n ig ht a nd Grady said. launched “They do it evwater ba lery year, so by loons at the this point, it’s students completely unguarding the Student Body impressive. But well. President Jay Dawkins can you really Coby Kaex pec t more vanaugh, from a Tar Heel?� a freshman in business at Megan Radigan a junior in bi- UNC, said he was forced to ology at UNC, said that painting chase and tackle an N.C. State the Free Expression Tunnel be- student who was threatening fore a big game is tradition. to vandalize the old well. “To N.C. State students it could “I felt like it was something seem a bit repetitive, I suppose,� I had to do,� Kavanaugh said. Radigan said. “It is just tradition, “As a Tar Heel, it is my duty like how N.C. State lights up the to protect the dignity and seBell Tower red after a win.� curity of our campus.� Radigan said she believed it was a tradition that served as a
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bookstore since he found out that its profits go to financial aid for NCSU students. NCSU Bookstores is a non-profit organization which benefits the University’s need-based Academic Scholarship Fund, according to its Web site. “I used to buy my books online, but ever since I found that out, I’ve purchased my books on campus because I want to do things that benefit students,� Mills said. Mills said he encouraged increased use of the Guaranteed Buyback Program while he was student body president last year, and said in recent years students have saved over $1 million as a result of the program. “The initial cost is still the same, but at the end of the semester you’ll get a lot more of your investment back in return and that saves you money,� he said. “It not only saves students money in that form, but it encourages more students to buy books on campus which also encourages more financial aid.� A key component of the Guaranteed Buyback Program and for ensuring higher prices paid on buybacks in general, Mills said, is making sure teachers put their textbook orders in on time. A mandate from Provost Larry Nielsen has increased the percentage of teachers who place their orders on time considerably, Mills said. The best time to sell books back to the campus store is at the end of the semester, according to the Web site.
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“Nothing says demoralized like walking out on a cold day and all you see is ‘41-10.�’
International students not concerned about dorms closing Exchange students make plans to travel Courtney Bolin Staff Writer
University Housing will be closing the dorms, including Alexander Global Village for Thanksgiving break Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. Initially, many faculty members were concerned that international students would be displaced by the closings. However, most students have planned vacations and home-stays during the break. “It was our hopes that the international students would be invited to go home with their American friends,� Susan Grant, director of University Housing, said. “We want them to have the opportunity to participate in the holiday.� Joe Evans, an exchange student from England, said he and about 10 other international students are planning to go to Miami beach over the break. “We are hopefully going to pick up some fly honeys,� Evans said. “It should be super mondo.� Evans, a junior in economics, said that he wasn’t invited to go home with anyone, but he didn’t ask either. He said that he had already made plans to go to Florida. “I know that Campus Crusade for Christ offers a program that gives exchange students an opportunity to go to a family’s home,� Evans said. Evans said that he can see how the dorms closing may be inconvenient to international students, but he thinks it encourages the students to travel. “The building closing forces the students to participate in something,� Evans said. “But, if the building had stayed open, I would have traveled anyway.� Yulisa Lin, a community director for University Housing, said she had been talking to the international students about their plans over the break. “All of the students I have talked to have plans,� Lin said. “They all have said that they have plans to travel or that they are going home with friends.� Lin said she was an exchange student while working on her undergraduate degree. “Going home with students was a good way to experience the culture,� Lin said. She said she thinks it was a good way to explore what an DORMS continued page 2
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Taylor Russell, freshman in aerospace engineering, adjusts a component of his E101 freshman design project with one of his group mates, Dontavis Funderburk, freshman in computer and electrical engineering. Russell, Funderburk and three other members were making a rube goldberg machine to put a quarter in a cup. “Most difficult part was getting the ball to drop on the ruler,� Russell said.
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