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Volume t, Number 5 Wednesday, March 12, 1975 Presenting ... The great book rip-Qff Gene Funk The school could rent this Every year, the estimated He has informed the ad- This would end the back door out properly. When borrowed same model, for a trial basis at value of the books stolen from ministration of these losses in borrowing that seems to be without being processed, the the rate of $242 a month and our library is enough to put one the past arid has been "told to going on. This would be simple, strip in the book sets off an then apply this to the purchase inexpensive and very effective. alarm at the exit station and an the security student through four years of initiate with , college at WMC,buy her or his means available to us." The As for the front door, there audio, and or visual alarm is should they decide to keep the machine. books, and maybe have just budget for the library is fixed, are almost foolproof ways of 'activated. Gates may also be enough left to buy that student all donations for use by it going being. sure that books aren't added to prohibit exit with a new car to wheel around in. into the college's general funds being carried out right under stolen materials. These gates In any case, this machine if the automatically open Surprised? and not directly to the library'S the noses of the person on duty. would more than pay for itself Mr. Bachman, our librarian well being. One of these ways is an elec- person leaving is "clean", but in one year, at the present rate reported in a recent interview The only security system tronic book detection system. remain closed when an un- of loss. An investment of that he estimates a loss of available to the library without These detection systems are checked book is being $10,000 that makes $5,000 to between five and eight hundred a capital investment beyond said to reduce loss by 85% removed. $14,000 the first year and books this year, and that that the budget seems to be the use immediately. The Spartan sounds good. It $15,000 to $24,000 each year loss is about typical of the of student help in the present I checked into one of these, also sounds expensive, but it after that, seems to be a good losses the library has taken in turnstile check system. This called The Spartan Book really isn't. The system may one. past years. Further, Mr. Bach- system costs almost nothing Detection System. It is be bought or rented, (60% of man's figures show the since students are paid almost manufactured by the 3M the rental cost is applicable to These thefts should be average cost of replacing each nothing, and the turnstiles company (of Scotch tape the purchase price should the stopped. The costs that stolen book is about thirty were bought by the college. But fame). The Spartan is school decide to keep the dollars. A little multiplication then the system in use now "especially designed to meet Spartan). colleges are experiencing shows that we are losing does almost nothing, since the the traffic requirements of The 3M system, according to today are outrageous enough without the added strain of a between 15 and 24 thousand losses ha ven't been reduced high school. small public, prices published effective as of student body which pilfers dollars this and every year due since its installation. community or junior college August 31, 1974, could be in- it 5 own library. If you to theft in our library. Better systems exist, and libraries." The Spartan con- stalled in QUI' library {or under The turnstiles, put in last there are measures that could sists of an exit station and $10,000. A super-cheap but happen to know anyone who happens to know anyone who year to subject all persons to be taken to minimize theft in specially treated tape strips effective model with no extras 'might know anything about the the eyes of desk personnel, the library. One suggestion placed in each book on the would cost about $7,000and a haven't stopped this theft. might be to put a lock on the library shelves. Books are good model with 2 book people who are emptying our There are several ready an- elevator so that only staff "sensitized" when shelved and processors and a gate could be library, let them know that stealing is a no-no. swers for this, first the desk persons have access to its use. "desensitized" when checked installed for about $9,000. personnel, students, paid a paultry $1.60 an hour, don't Bar b Burns The language houses are working search every peson leaving the library. Secondly, assuming There are two buildings on have now encorporated the remembered that at first the most. people react to this by they did search everyone, they WMC's campus which most experience of living in a students were very leery of hanging up. T~e French house would have to frisk each students never set foot in language house into their speaking Spanish because they also holds dinners once. a suspect if that system is to be during their four years here on required curriculum. Students were afraid that they would month a~d they go to movies effective since books may the hill. Just try to guess which who are interested in living in sound funny, expeciaUy to and ~mfle~d trips to~e~her: easily be concealed and aren't buildings these are. No, you're one of the houses should get an Gloria. But everyone soon It IS ObVIOUSth.at hVI~g m a always carried under the arm. wrong. They're not the library, application from a lang uage relaxed and now they help each languag~ hous~ IS a diff~rent Third, there are ways out of the chapel, the Preacher professor. The deadline for other with the language by and enlightening expe~Ien.ce our library other than the front section, or the art building. The filing an application with the correcting mistakes. The for ~any students, It IS m- door. By use of the elevator for two little noticed buildings Student Affairs Office is March house holds large, Spanish teresung to note that the instance, one may abscond to being referred to are WMC's 15. The Language House style dinners about once a language houses .are the only the basement totally unseen language houses. Committee then screens the month which takes all day to true co-ed housing here on and unmolested. The back door Yes, believe it or not, WMC's applicants, giving preference prepare. The Spanish Club also c.amp.us and no one seems to is an easy way to leave from language house program is to the language majors who uses the house for dinners and fm~ It a has.sIe. Even Dean there with books, desks or alive and doing well. There are must live in the houses. meetings. Rhonda's only .Laidlaw admits that she has anything else one desires to now two language houses here However, non-majors are very regret is that the Spanish never .had to d~al with a "borrow." on campus, the French house welcome if there is enough House cannot be in existence complaint concerning the co-ed What all this means is that which is next to Whiteford room. every year.; status of the houses. This is before our library can add new Hall, and the Spanish house Students who live in the Margaret Cheniae, the just one of the alternative life material to its shelves, it has to which is hidden away behind houses now seem very happy sophomore French major who styles offered here at WMC cope with losses of 500 to 800 the cafeteria, near the apart- with the ~rr~ngemen.t. Rhon.da IS president of the French .and, even though little noticed volumes each year. This 'mente. The concept of a Dahl, a JUnior Spanish major house finds that living in the and often neglected, the makes it very difficult to keep language house program was who is president of the Spanish house' has been a good ex- language houses are working. our library well stocked with first brought up by Mr. House, feels that. she has perience. She likes the interesting books, especially Derausse of the French become more confident and closeness and family at ~--------, since, as Mr. Bachman points department in the fall of 1967. fluent in Spanish as a result of mosphere that living with just PUBLIC RELATIONS AND out, the materials stolen are When Whiteford opened in the living in the house. She feels eleven other people can ADVERTISING naturally the materials most in fall of 1968, the small house that the students are helped a provide. The students in the On March 17, 1975, Mr. demand. For instance, the next to it was left vacant so Mr. lot by the ~ead resident of the house speak French to each Charles Mitchell, Jr., a library once kept Playboy' on Derausses' idea was put into house, Gloria Martinez and her other as much as possible and Western Maryland College file. It was decided to put these action. The French house held husband, Antonio, who a.re they almost always speak it to graduate currently working for magazines on micro-film to eight students at that time but both from Southern Spain. their head resident. The head the Bell System of Penn- deter theft, but the thieves since then the house has been There are only six students resident in the French house is sylvania, will give a presen- evidently had film readers. for enlarged and refurbished and Jiving in the house this Annie Blin, who is from tation entitled "Careers in the expensive films soon now "it can hold fourteen semester so everyone ~as Brittany, and she helps the Public Relations ani Ad- disappeared. students. The other language become very close, almost hke students utilize their con- vertising. Mr. Bachman, though he house was opened ip the fall of a family. The students try to versational abilities. One Mr. Mitchell's program is to says the losses the library is 1972and it alternates year by speak Spanish as mech as custom the students have had be held at 4:00 p.m. in Me- sustaining aren't "ex- year between Spanish and possible while they're in ~he to give up recently is an- Daniel Lounge. Coffee wan be traordinary" realizes that they German. house, although some English swerlng the phone in French served. "aren't insignificant either." The language departments does slip by. Rhonda because they have found thatL.:.:==-------_j