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August 27, 2004

stacks of boxed textbooks

Crowd-friendly approach

University Book Store employees Kacie Riordan and Brandon Ross double check the content of textbook orders in the Memorial Union Gold Room. This fall, 2,834 freshmen and transfer students took advantage of the bookstore's textbook reservation program. Students pre-ordered their texts for fall semester and picked up their boxes during move-in weekend before classes began. Photo by Grant Steinfeldt.