Student Committee Reports on U.Va. Bookstore Project, [manuscript], 1950 Apr 10.

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Student Committee Reports on U.Va. Bookstore Project, [manuscript], 1950 Apr 10.

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Proposal to build a University-run bookstore as the Corner bookstores do not have the best interests of the students at heart. A University-run bookstore would keep book costs at a minimum and stock the non-textual books important to the University's cultural life. Students involved include Joseph Carter, Alan Gaynor, William McFarlane, Erich Nussbaum, Harry Taylor, and Charles Young. Faculty advisors included Archibald Hill, Dan Norton, William Weeden and John Cook Wyllie. With this report is a minority report submitted by Erich Nussbaum endoresed by Charles P. Bigger, chairman for the original bookstore committee.

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Norton, Daniel Silas, 1908-1951

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Bigger, Charles P.

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Young, Charles M. (Charles Morton), 1945-

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