Professors, print your course packs at the bookstore

Despite the bookstores ability to produce course packs, many professors have continued to do business with Sir Speedy, a  printing and marketing business, simply because that is how they have always done it. 

If you are one of these professors, the staff of the Technician urges you to give your business (which is really our business as your students) to the bookstore instead. 

The N.C. State Bookstore is owned and operated by Campus Enterprises.  This nonprofit organization uses the profits from the bookstore to help give financial aid and scholarships to students as well as adequately maintain the facilitates that students and faculty use. 

Although the sale of course packs is not the main source of money for financial aid, the UNC-System has taken drastic cuts to its budget in recent years, so any amount of money taken out of the hands of students who need it will be sorely missed.

That being said, we feel that professors should give back to the students they work for by allowing the University Bookstore to sell their course packs, rather than outsourcing them to a for-profit company.