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Volume 98, Number 30
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Bookstores adapt to digital era
Gas leak in Johnston leads to evacuation
A breakdown of textbook costs How is the average dollar spent by textbook manufanufacturing companies?
By Joe Kaiser
77.4 cents for textbook wholesale cost
joseph.kaiser@marquette.edu
This includes cost of production, paper, printing, etc., as well as marketing, the publisher's income and the author's income. The NACS used to report this information separately. In 2008, the NACS reported that 11.7 cents went to the author's income and 7 cents went to the publisher's income.
7.2 cents for operations
This covers the operations of a college bookstore beyond paying its employees, so this includes insurance, utilities, building costs, etc.
10.7 cents for bookstore employees This covers the cost of college store personnel, so this is the money that pays the bookstore’s employees.
1 cent for shipping This is the money used to cover freight expenses from the publisher’s warehouse to campuses across the country.
3.7 cents for bookstore income This is the money that goes into the bookstore’s pocket as income before taxes.
Source: The National Association of College Stores (2011 Figures)
Textbook prices rise despite boom in options for students By Rob Gebelhoff and Kelly Meyerhoffer
robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu kelly.meyerhoffer@marquette.edu
It is no secret students go to great lengths to save a few bucks on textbooks each semester. For example, Emily Gorz, a
sophomore in the College of Communication, split the cost of an online access code with friends in her comparative politics class to save money this semester. “It was $60,” Gorz said. “Why would each of us pay that much when we can all share a username and password to get to the same online readings?” With students spending an average of $655 on textbooks each year according to the National Association of College Stores, such efforts are expected. Students are
Infographic by Maddy Kennedy/madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu
now so good at this that, although like Chegg.com and Amazon.com. In order to compete with the NACS reports rising these cheaper alternatives, textbook prices, the avereature campus bookstores like the age amount each student tory Marquette-affiliated Bookspends has decreased by Marq and the indepenalmost $100 since 2008. dent Sweeney’s College Books began to make their books AN ADAPTING available for rent. TEXTBOOK INDUSTRY The director of Sweeney’s, Students now attending Marquette entered college after textbook Dan Brown said the comparentals became a popular method ny is in its fourth year renting of doing business – it only became books to students. common in the past couple of years See Books, Page 4 with the rise of online companies
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6 professors hired under interim dean Business dean search still on hold until new president is found By Benjamin Lockwood
benjamin.lockwood@marquette.edu
While the search for a new dean remains on hold, the College of Business Administration hired six new professors over break to fill vacancies left after a number of faculty retirements. The interim dean of the college, Mark Eppli, said four of the professors hired were first choice candidates. Three positions were filled in the marketing department, one in finance, one in information technology and the last was hired as a management
faculty member. Eppli said the college is still interviewing candidates for the management and economics department, and finalists for both candidates were invited for campus visits. “In short, we are well on our way to finding new talent for the college,” Eppli said in an email. The progress toward finding a new dean, however, is hindered by other university leadership changes in the past year, notably the president and provost vacancies. “The (business dean) search is on hold until the president search is completed,” said Joseph Daniels, an economics professor and co-chair of the search committee for the business dean, in an email. “Hence, there is nothing to report at all. In fact, the committee has
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MARQUEE...................6 VIEWPOINTS..............8 SPORTS.......................10
Construction workers struck a service line while working on Sensenbrenner Hall Wednesday causing a gas leak in Johnston Hall. Students and faculty evacuated Johnston Hall around 12 p.m. and were not allowed reentry for more than an hour, forcing many students and faculty members to relocate to the Law Library, Straz and Cudahy halls. The Department of Public Safety, Milwaukee Fire Department and Police Department sealed off the area around Johnston Hall until it was reopened around 1:30 p.m. “As precaution, we evacuated all those students and employees in Johnston,” said Brian Dorrington, senior director of university communication. “We were informed both by DPS and MPD there was a potential gas leak from construction on the site.” We Energies arrived at the scene to repair the service line, which was finished by 3 p.m. We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey noted that the repairs and situation would have been different if a main gas line was struck instead of just the service line. “The service line leads to the main (line) of a particular building,” Manthey said. “If it hit a main, we might have needed to shut off the gas.” Carole Burns, director of the Wakerly Technology Training Center, said she saw the line get struck just before smelling the gas. “All of a sudden it started being a pretty heavy smell of natural gas in the building, so we called public safety, and they suggested that we evacuate until further notice,” Burns said shortly after evacuating. Dorrington said the evacuation, which lasted less than two hours before classes resumed, ended once it was determined safe to re-enter. “We assessed the situation, and it was within an hour that we got the all clear,” Dorrington said. “The fire
not met since the (former University President the Rev. Scott) Pilarz announcement.” Daniels told the Tribune in October the lack of a president, provost, dean and faculty created a “domino effect” that causes “uncertainty all the way down.” Eppli said even though his role is interim, he is still focused on the long term. “MU, like all not-for-profit universities, (makes) decisions for the very long run, as we expect to be around this century, the next century and the century after that, and the process to vet significant decisions reflects that long-term view,” Eppli said. Eppli is considered as a candidate for the permanent position as dean of the college, but he said he and the college are not prepared to make a decision.
“Once the university is ready to begin its search for a permanent business dean, I will give serious consideration to whether I wish to be a candidate,” Eppli said. The original goal when the university announced the search committee Aug. 26, just less than a month before Pilarz left the university, was to have the dean position filled by early spring 2014. Eppli still emphasized the progress the college is making, even in the absence of a permanent business dean. He cited the 17 percent increase in the college’s enrollment from last year, the implementation of the university’s first massively open online course in investing, as well as the new vision and “strategic roadmap” for the college.
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