Book Department Relieves Vets of Undesired Texts

Vacillating professors and the sellers' market in text books have necessitated the establishment of a special veterans' book department in Weld Hall to take care of veterans who have purchased books only to find the book lists changed and their shelves full of expensive and relatively worthless tomes.

Helen McCloskey, in charge of the book office which handles the paper work for over 7,000 authorizations, says that the situation "is not as bad at last term." Numerous out-of-print and unavailable texts, however, have popped up on our course reading lists to plague the veterans' office.

Out of Luck

Many students who managed to get hold of some of the scarce volumes were out of luck when their lists were changed, the book office relates. If they put their names on them or defaced the volumes in any way, they found themselves with an extra book on their hands for which they were "financially responsible."

"No one should write in any books he buys under the G.I. Bill unless he is absolutely sure the book will be on the final reading list and that he will be taking the course," Mrs. McCloskey warns.

The shortage was greatly cased by the availability of about 600 duplicate texts from the Library of Congress. Given to the veterans' office on the stipulation that they would be distributed at no charge to vets studying under government aid, the donations covered about 25 or 30 different required reading titles.