'Cliffe NSA Book Exchange Opens For Business Today

Radcliffe's long awaited book exchange will open at 9:15 a.m. today in the Agassiz Writing Room.

Business hours for the non-profit National Student Association project are set for 9:15 a.m. 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, for the next two weeks. The exchange will then buy and sell text books one day a week, tentatively Wednesdays.

Over 500 texts and non-texts, turned in during reading and examination periods now fill the bookcases in the Agassiz headquarters. The majority of the books are for College courses and include a large number of language, social relations, English, and Humanition texts.

Student Council and NSA members will register books for the exchange and coordinate all transactions. Balla Cohen '51 and Betty Heaton '51 will head the staff for the commuters and dormitory residents respectively, and will make special arrangements necessary for collecting books.

Books in good condition will be sold at two-thirds of original cost, fair condition at one-half, and poor at one-third. The seller will receive the full price paid by the buyer. Money will be sent to the seller at the end of the month during which a book is sold, and checks will be mailed to these who have left college.

Sales Data

Anyone may price a book lower than the exchange rate if she wishes to increase the possibility of a sale. Triplicate forms will be kept for each transaction, for the seller, the exchange, and the book. If the book is not sold over a reasonable period of time, the seller will have a choice of reclaiming it or donating the book to an educational charity.

When the idea was conceived two years ago, no organization was available to handle it. The NSA took control last spring.