 The bookstore contract for 1998 also included that a new building to house it would be constructed.Howard ended up contracting with Barnes & Noble amid appeals to the state comptroller by two of three bidders for the bookstore contract.In a 1998 article by FSA President Michael Paluch that appeared in "The Buffalo News", Paluch stated that, as a result of the change, "Textbook prices will be higher, student wages will be lower, and the college will get substantially less construction dollars for a new store from Barnes & Noble than from the Faculty-Student Association."