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C ampus H u n t h a u s e n C e n t e r f o r P e a c e a n d J u s t i c e PHOTO BY DANA MILLER Kelly Meros Staff Writer The Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice this year is going to be emphasiz ing the importance of volunteer work and will be housing the new Catholic Relief Services College Ambassador. “One of our goals this year is for stu dents to learn more about what the Hunt hausen Center is.\ stated Chris Fuller, associate professor of theology. The Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice came about after Carroll College received money from donors to establish the Archbishop Hunthausen Professor ship for Peace and Justice. Archbishop Hunthausen was a student, professor and president of Carroll College. Fuller was asked to use this money to start a service learning center. Now. three years later, the center is finally taking off with three student workers who are working to promote social justice around campus and in the community. “I like building things from the ground up,” stated Fuller. “Doing it in a way that honors his [Archbishop Hunthausen] memory.\ Logan McLean, a junior psychology major from Billings, is the civil engage ment intern who works in the Hunthausen Center, and she has a few goals that she hopes to reach if not this semester, than during this year. “I want to reach the campus more ef fectively. I also want to bring more of a faith component into the service,” said McLean. “Lastly, I want to do more service projects that the students want to do,” said McLean. This year, there is a new person work ing in the Hunthausen Center whose primary job will be to see what organiza tions are in need of volunteers. “I am excited this year to have the opportunity to get to the Helena's service organizations and help make the Hunt- Hunthausen Avenue's new official street sign hausen Center a resource for students who want to find an organization to volun teer at,” said Ali Dowling, a sophomore Spanish and history major from Burl ington Wash, who is the new volunteer coordinator There are many changes happening in the Hunthausen Center. Please stop by if you should have any questions or if you are interested about volunteering in the local community. The Hunthausen Center is located in Borromeo Hall. Extreme Makeover: Sodexo Edition Reed Baker Staff Writer Looking at the changes made in the Campus Center over the last two years, one ¿ring is absolutely certain: Sodexo, Carroll's dining service prodider, is chang ing the game. “It has been my goal to renovate the Saint Thomas Aquinas Commons (STAC) since I first came to Carroll,” said Linda Bahr, Sodexo general manager. “I walked in there two years ago and thought ‘this has to change.’” From building the Subconnection, to Jazzman’s café, investing in all new dishware, and even installing carpet in the STAC, Sodexo has proven that they are willing to invest the time and money to redefine the dining experience at Carroll. “Obviously, we installed carpet over the summer in the STAC,” said Bahr. “But we also put in new tables, and new chairs should be in place by the beginning of nient. and the lines don't seem to be as long anymore.” Taking into account the generally posi tive reception from students and faculty, there is always room for improvement. \Our campus isn’t huge, so it's under standable that Sodexo would concentrate their location to the Cube,” said Barrett. \But. the Simpennan location is really convenient, and if they thought about put ting another small location like that in the library. I think they’d make bank.” While adding more on-campus loca tions to buy Sodexo products isn't feasible for the near future. Bahr revealed that there are a few more surprises approach ing in the next few months. “We received special permission from the boss of all the regional chefs in our region to have a guest chef on October second and third.” said Bain. “I won’t spill the beans on what kind of food he’ll be making for us. but it’s an exciting op portunity, and is something that students should really be looking forward to.” October.” While all the physical changes to the Campus Center have been sudden and at times overwhelm ing, Sodexo also lias taken moves to become more green-ori ented. “I am re ally proud of our garden.\ said Bahr. “I have person ally put a lot of work weeding and trimming, as have many members of the Green Honors program. In the next few weeks, we ll have lots of herbs and tomatoes that were grown served in our meals at the STAC. \ With all of their recent changes, the the new STAC salad bar question arises: what other changes does Sodexo have waiting in the wings? “With all the physical renovations we’ve been doing, most of our upcom ing changes are menu and program- based.\ said Bahr. “We’re constantly trying to make the menu more healthy, and most of our changes are inspired by student feedback.” The changes are drastic, but seem to be appreciated by PHOTO BY DANA MILLER Students. “I think [Sodexo] is just try ing to give us more options, which is really nice.” said junior nursing major Stephanie Barrett from White Sulphur Springs. Mont. \Especially the new layout in the dining hall - it's a lot more conve Textbooks from front page Authors spend years compiling data and writing the text for their books. Of course they’d like to be paid for their time. As would the editors of the book, and the intern who tracks down all the charts and photographs to complement the text. And those graphics are not free, folks! Don’t think you get off scot-free English majors. The copyright for every single poem and story in an anthology must be bought, and renewed for subsequent print ings. And then there is the designer of the book, the sales reps who pitch the book to buyers (professors), and the accountants who keep track of all the money. Oh, and the publisher himself would like to make some money as well. In an August 28 article for U S. News and World Report Brace Hildebrand, executive director of higher education at the Association of American Publishers stated that the entire production process takes three to five years on average, and can take up to 10 years for some textbooks. Then there is the cost of printing the book. The funny tiling about print runs is that the fewer books in a print ran. the higher the cost per ran. The market for textbooks, while captive, is small (not every professor uses the same title!) so the printing costs for each title is astro nomical. According to a 2006 study by the Association of American Publishers, the production costs of a single textbook can top $1 million, while sales for that book may be between 1,000 and 40,000 copies. Selling a textbook involves sending out review copies to individual professors who may or may not choose to use the book. But let’s say that a professor does use the book. That professor is teaching 3 sections of 287 students, so he orders 900 books. Only 600 books sell, but the nice thing for the bookstore is, those unsold books are returnable, mean ing they go back to the pub lisher FREE OF CHARGE. Meanwhile, the publisher and author lose profit on 300 books that can never again be marketed as “new.” Publishers sell new books to bookstores at net price and the bookstore sells the books at retail price. Accord ing to the National Associa tion of College Stores, as recently as 2008. 21.6 cents of every dollar spent on a new textbook (bought at retail price) goes to the book store. One cent of every dollar goes to ward the shipping costs. That leaves 77.4 cents to go to the publisher to cover their costs. According to Sullivan these figures still hold: The Saint’s Shoppe still makes about 20 cents per dollar spent. That money goes to cover the costs of running the bookstore, but it also does something more, something very unique to Carroll. “The money made at the bookstore goes back into the general fund to cut costs elsewhere on the campus.” Sullivan said. Most university bookstores across the country are completely separate from the college itself and out to make their own profit. That 77.4 cents breaks down as follows: 15.4 cents for marketing. 11.7 for the authors, and 32.2 cents to the publishing basics, print ing. paper and salaries. And that is only for new books The growing phenomena of used books is an industry' that has taken off in the last 40 years. There didn't used to be such tilings as \used” books. Students kept their books, or sold them to a friend, not the bookstore. Now. everyone is out to make money, publishers, bookstores, and students (“Greed is good.” right?). So when the semester is over, students sell their books back to college bookstores to make some quick cash. Across the country , books bought by wholesalers and used book distributers are stored in warehouses and often mar keted to professors much the same way a publisher markets a new book. The same book will be sold back to students for 75 percent of its original value, sold back to the bookstore for 50 percent of that value, returned to the distributer, and the cycle continues. The bookstore profits, the dis tributer profits, and no one thinks to buy new books from the publisher. According to the Association of American Publish ers. in 2006 one-third of all textbook sales were from used textbooks. “The single greatest contributor to the price of a textbook is a used textbook.” said Hildebrand. In an effort to combat the growing used book industry', publishers are forced to release new editions and render the old ones obsolete. Now, I knoyv it is hard to buy new, and I knoyy that 99.9 percent of you will not buy new books by choice next semester (I for one have to save for an entire summer just to be able to afford my books USED). And I know that many of you don't care about the publishers who are charging you an ann and a leg so they can stay afloat in a drowning economy. But please, please please please, the next time you are about the gripe about the bill for your books, stop a moment and realize that the (used) books you just bought are causing this. \The money made at the bookstore goes back into the general fund to cut costs elsewhere on campus.\ -Kitty Sullivan Thursday,September 27, 2012 The Prospector 5
