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February 17, 1983/The Maroon Tiger/Page 5
Book Store Blues
By Keith LaRue
What about the Atlanta University
Center bookstore? They say that they are
trying to serve the students, but that is
hard for me to believe when at the
beginning of a semester, I buy a book for
an outrageous twenty-five dollars and
then at the end of the semester I can only
get ten dollars selling the same book back.
They say this is because of the ware and
tear on the book. But somehow I doubt
this especially when I see the book I
bought for twenty-five dollars and sold
back for ten dollars being sold the next
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semester for twenty dollars. It makes me
wonder about their commitment to
giving the student the best service possi
ble.
I talked to a professor about my
concern and he also had some com
plaints. He said he had ordered a book for
one of his history of civilization classes,
however, AUC book stores ordered the
wrong volume of the book. The students
did not realize this until the one week
period the store allows to return books
was up. Unwilling to accept the blame for
ordering the wrong books, the bookstore
refused to buy back the books.
In my opinion the AUC bookstore has
gotten too use to the AUC students
business, like a husband and wife get use
to each other after they are no longer
newlyweds. It is clear the students don't
have to get use to the bookstore because
they are not married.
Perhaps the students should introduce
a little competition into this affair by
starting a student union bookstore that
would have their interest and pocketbook
size at heart, instead of those interested in
making a profit off them.
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On Supply Side Economics
by Vincent M. Bursey, ’82
Is It Registration Made Simple?
by Eugene Maxwell, Jr.
This compound terminology “supply-
side economics” is all but a household
word for many economists, financiers,
business executives, and some students.
For the last 24 months or more, the term
“supply-side economics" has grown
exponentially via the major broadcasting
network and mass media. Like many new
issues in contemporary American society,
supply-side economics will have its basic
rudiments unexamined, thereby making
fertile the ground of misunderstanding.
Hopefully, the discussion of its prin
ciples that follows in capsule form will
supplant such misunderstanding; and will
increase the reader's attentiveness to
succeeding discussions on supply-side
economics.
The Reagan administration has em
barked on a four-dimensional program
designed primarily to stimulate economic
growth while simultaneously harnessing
inflation. Whether the decision to go with
the supply site approach has been careful
ly weighed and diagnosed is beyond the
objective of this article. Specifically, the
four integral parts of supply-side
economics are:
I. The reduction is marginal tax rates.
Marginal tax rates are the rates paid on a
dollar of additional income. The cuts are
in marginal rather than average tax rates
because it is believed that it is at the
margin where people make decisions.
These cuts are intended to provide
incentives to work harder and save more.
II. Curtail the growth of fedreal spen
ding. To understand the importance of
spending reductions, it is important to
realize that government spending must
be financed by taxes, by borrowing from
the public, and/or by printing money.
Given that cuts in tax rates have been
enacted, unless government spending is
correspondingly reduced, a deficit may
arise. A deficit arises when government
spending exceeds tax revenues. If tax
revenues fall as a result of tax cuts, then a
deficit will be created so long as govern
ment remains unchanged.
III. Restraint on Monetary Growth.
Under the proposed economic program
the Fedreal Reserve is assigned the
responsibility of reducing money growth
to slow and steady rate. Such a policy is
expected to bring the inflation rate
quickly down, but without producing
sluggish growth in the economy. This
should lead to lowered inflationary
expectations, which in turn should
reduce the rate of wage increases.
IV. Regulatory reform. More generally,
regulatory reform is intended to curtail
government intervention into the
economy, thereby placing more reliance
on the workings of the market for the
pricing and allocation of resources.
For a more detailed discussion of
supply-side economics, consult the
source indicated below.
* Barth, James R. The Reagan Program
for Economics Recovery: Economic
Rationale, The Fedreal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta, September, 1981.
It all began to happen on Monday,
January 10,1983. Yes, it was that day of all
days - chaos at it’s worst!
Registration for students began at 9:00
a.m. in the gymnasium of Archer Hall. It
was rather easy - up to a certain point.
Students simply filled out the class
admission cards in their packets, which
were to be stamped by the Business office
once their fees were assessed. Of course,
this was the procedures for those so very
few students, whose pre-registration
cards were returned to their homes with
all of the classes that they had pro-
registered for; however, for those
students, who received pre-registration
cards, but not complete with all of the
courses that they signed upfor,then itwas
a “totally different story.”
The question that naturally arose
among students concerning registration
this semester was, “Why was registration
so difficult this semester?”
After a thorough investigation of the
entire situation on registration, evidence
were revealed as to the cause of the
problem. As a matter of fact several
reasons were found.
As you know, the registrar was
operating on the computer system for the
first time to register and pre-register
students. This was the root of the
problem. Apparently the registrar
collected a vast majority of the pre
registration cards from the students, and
entered them into the computer ter
minals at a later date, instead of entering
them into the computer in the presence
of the student, so that the student could
be informed of the results righ then and
there. Thus, many .student had no idea of
which classes they were enrolled in, and
which ones they weren't. Because pre
registration had been done in this
manner, a majority of students at Morris
Brown, Clark, and Spelman had a slight
advantage over Morehouse students for
courses offered throughout the Atlanta
University Center; this being due to the
fact that the entire Atlanta University
Center operates on the same computer,
which is base in the lower level of the
Robert W. Woodruff library. Each institu
tion has three (3) computer terminals
stationed in their registrar for the purpose
of registering students. This makes it
rather convenient for those students who
have to commute to other institutions in
order to register for a particular class.
As a result of the pre-registration
procedure, many of the students were
“Registration Victims” - long lines, long
hours, needed signatures, “Go do this,
and then come back.” This was supposed
to be avoided with the new and advanced
technology - “The Computers.”
Though most of the opinions of
Morehouse students regarding registra
tion this semester were negative,
evidence reveal that Morehouse was not
the only institution in the Atlanta Univer
sity Center experiencing registration
difficulties; as a matter of fact, ail of the
Atlanta University Center institutions
experience registration problems of some
kind.
The registrar is attemptingto “iron-out
all wrinkles,” which aroseduring registra
tion under the new system, and hopefully
it will be rectified by/before pre
registration, which is scheduled for the
latter of this semester. At any rate, the enw
registration system will still need a little
more time to get adjusted - meanwhile,
students should be patient. After all, the
situation can only get better, and
“Registration made Simple” could
become a reality!
Pan-African Series
The Science Of Dialectics
Nkrumahism is based on the science of Dialectics. Dialectics is a method of Scientific
Logic which allows us to interpret, understand and explain all aspects of Life. It does this
by recognizing that life consists not of fixed things but of processes; that these
processes are in constant conflict (thesis and antithesis) and this conflict is resolved by
the creation of a new process - the synthesis. For example, we do not suddenly wake up
one day and find ourselves old. We go through a process of aging. Life (thesis) and time
(antithesis) are in conflict and the quantity of time causes a qualitative change in our
bodies - old age (synthesis). We also witness dialectics every time we boil a pot of water.
When we heat water, it does not continue to get hotter and hotter. The 'calm' conflict
between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms is intensified by the application of heat and at
the critical boiling temperature, the liquid is transformed into steam. The quantity of
heat causes a qualitative change in the atomic structure inherent in the water.
A qualitative change in a process is known as Negation. Negation is simply the
rejection of a previous condition for a new condition. In the example given above of
boiling water, the water was negated by becomingsteam. Anotherexampleof negation
would be childbirth, where the embryo goes through a process of development inside
the mother, negates the mother's body and becomes a new, separate entity upon birth.
The basis of change and transformation of a process is always inherent in the process
itself. The chemical structure for steam is inherent in water. Water can therefore negate
itself and turn into steam but it cannot turn into fire. A human being cannot give birth to
a goat.