Bookstore policy doesn't cut it
To the editor,
Last week a number of students protested the ASUA bookstore's new policy to issue credit, rather than cash for returned textbooks. The bookstore has now reversed its policy in order to act "in the best interest of the students," according to Cindy Hawk, an advocate of the first policy which received so much criticism.
Don't be fooled though - look carefully, are they really acting in your best interest? The NEW policy, which is in the student's 'best interest' now states that students buying textbooks have 24 hours to receive a refund. Is this an improvement?
On Feb. 5, I wrote to the editor urging students to take their book business elsewhere, to bookstores where fair and competitive policies and pricing are the norm. Again, I write with the same message - take your business elsewhere, to Barnes & Noble, to Borders, where you have NOT 24 hours, NOT 24 days, but at least a month to return a book for a cash refund, and where books are priced competitively. Don't allow the ASUA bookstore to fool you with their insignificant concession.
Zachary Neal
Philosophy and Latin sophomore
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