University of Virginia Library

Union Of University Students Reopens
Newcomb Hall Used Book Exchange

By Jeff Ruggles
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

One of the pragmatic offshoots of last
spring's strike has been the
reestablishment of a student book
exchange, which is now run by the Union

of University Students in the basement of
Newcomb Hall.

Within the sounds of clicking billiard
balls a series of tables display a wide
variety of student texts. Any student can
bring in any book and offer it for sale.

The student chooses his own price, and
receives that price when the book is sold. The
only charge is a uniform rate of ten cents for
the exchange's expenses.

According to the exchange, used texts which
are being used again this year sell very fast.
These include psychology, Math 3, and certain
chemistry texts. The exchange has a full table
of science books and a table of foreign language
books.

One of the features of the exchange is that
the same book may be sold for different prices.
For instance, two Thomas calculus books,
which retail for $10 to $13, were priced at $7
and $8.

The exchange, which also has a large
selection of Monarch notes inherited from the
Madison Hall book exchange, will be open for
at least one more week, or until the demand
slackens. Thereafter it will open at the
beginning of each semester.

The exchange is reached by walking through
the grill to the stairs at the east end of
Newcomb Hall. Its hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday.

The Union of University Students, which
sponsors the book exchange, was founded as a
direct result of the popular strike of May 1970.
The Union, open to all students at the
University, has scheduled its first meeting for 8
p.m. on Monday, September 28 in the
Newcomb Hall Ballroom.

At that time reports will be given by some
of the other elements of the Union besides the
book exchange. These elements include summer
committees investigating local housing,
educational reform, equal admissions for
women and blacks, antiwar organizing, and
other areas.

According to a statement by the Union, its
aim is to create a united student body and
eventually to become a power in the school and
its administration, and, in the works of the
Preamble to its Constitution, "... to create an
open and democratic University and a free, just
and peaceful world."