Daily Bulletin, Thursday, August 4, 1994

USED BOOKS:  With fall term beckoning, cost-conscious students
searching for the best deal on textbooks should visit UW's Used
Bookstore.

Over there, they can check out shelves containing an estimated
10,000 to 15,000 used texts.  The store is located temporarily in
a modest portable, between the Campus Centre and Biology 2
building, near Ring Road.

The store is open throughout August, including Saturdays, and
into the fall term.  During August, it's open from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. on weekdays and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.  The store
is even open on Labor Day, September 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

"People are coming in to buy fall books and people finishing up
spring term are bringing in books to sell," says Elizabeth
Barrett, a staff member at the store, which is alive and well
despite being relocated because of the construction under way at
the Campus Centre.

Barrett said that students can expect at least a 20 per cent
discount on books purchased at the store.  Books are sold on
consignment, and sellers can charge up to 80 per cent of the
original price of their books (they can, of course, sell for
less.)

The store, a service provided by the UW Federation of Students,
also displays the required book lists for courses.

PLAY TIME:  The King Rudolph Players, a new theatre company
founded by UW drama students and recent graduates, stages its
inaugural play tonight.

"The House of Blue Leaves," by American playwright John Guare,
and directed by UW drama graduate Jennifer Epps, runs through
Saturday and again next week in the Waterloo Community Arts
Centre located at the Button Factory (25 Regina St. S., near the
train tracks).  Show time is 8 p.m.

Anand Rajaram, who is entering fourth-year drama in the fall, and
Roger Lemke, who graduated in the spring, started the company and
managed to find some funding for it, chiefly from the UW
Federation of Students.

The play deals with "the American dream and the search for fame."
The three main characters are affected by their inability to
reach their goals.  "I have been wanting to do this play for a
long time," Epps said.  "I read the play for a course in American
theatre and I have been thinking about it a lot.

"The play is about competition and capitalism and the American
dream.  It's about fame and glory and people living with
illusions."

Tickets are $8 for students and seniors and $10 for others and
are available at the door. The play runs until this Saturday and
then again Aug. 11-13. For reservations, please call 578-7381.

The company will put on "Shakespeare in the Park" August 27 and
28 in Waterloo Park, with three or four performances of a 50-
minute play that puts some of the characters from "Midsummer
Night's Dream" and "Taming of the Shrew" together.  Admission
will be free.

LANDSCAPING TONIGHT:  Tonight's the night to learn all about "Low
Maintenance Naturalistic Landscaping" from one of the foremost
local experts, who also happens to be a UW employee.

Larry Lamb, ecologist and practising natural landscape artist,
will give an introductory lecture on the history of lawns,
natural depletion related to lawn maintenance, as well as
proposing low maintenance naturalistic landscaping as an
alternative to urban lawns.  The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in
Environmental Studies 1, Room 350.

After the one-lecture, participants can tour UW's Dorney Garden
that features native tall grass prairie and native woodlot plant
communities.

Tonight's lecture is part of a series intended to educate people
about the significant resource and natural habitat drains caused
by the cultivation of chemically treated lawns.  The series was
organized by Cheryl Evans and Katherine Dale, both fourth-year
Environment and Resource Studies students.

The lectures will also provide how-to tips on alternative
landscaping.  Alternative options to be discussed include
organically maintained lawns, edible landscapes, drought-
resistant landscapes (xeriscapes), low-maintenance landscapes and
native ecosystem landscapes.

John Morris,
UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4444
jmorris@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca