The One Thing I Want From the ASUC: Promote Bookswap
I was recently reminded of my own little pet issue by the ongoing competition between the ASUC bookstore and Ned's. First Ned's delivered some coupons to the house with a promise of 5 dollars extra on top of whatever pittance they would give me for reselling my books. Then the ASUC bookstore announced some stupid Greek Challenge where you say what Greek House you belong to when you sell back your books and the winning house gets a prize. Last thing I heard Ned's was bringing in some trannie hookers from SF to provide hand jobs along with that extra 5 dollars.

The reason they keep doing little gimmicks like this is because they are ripping us off (see my previous rant on how students are getting screwed). And not only are they ripping us off, they know that us Berkeley students are smart enough to realize that we are being ripped off. So they have to keep trying to bribe us.

The Computer Science and Business Association has stepped up to the plate with comegetused.com, which provides an easy and effective way for Berkeley students to buy and sell used books. This doesn't even require any work by the ASUC; all they need to do is get the word out about comegetused (surely something of a priority for an ASUC President who campaigned on bookswaps, right?), because the more people who hear about it and use it the more effective it becomes. Consider this CalStuff doing our part to get the message out, and I would encourage others to help promote a service that prevent students from getting ripped off.

P.S. If any of you ASUC people who read CalStuff tell me that I should go work for the ASUC and "be the change I want to create" or something like that, I'm going to have to ask you to campaign on that slogan: "Student Action-If you want anything from the student government, go do it youself!"
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