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...Harvard Coop called police yesterday after three undergraduates collecting information for a student-run textbook-shopping Web site refused to leave the bookstore. The two Cambridge police officers who arrived allowed the students to continue copying down book identification numbers, which they did for two and a half hours before leaving on their own terms...
...Cambridge Police Department said its officers removed three or four males from the Coop’s third floor, where textbooks are sold, at a Coop official’s request after receiving a call from the store at 4:34 p.m. But a Crimson reporter and photographer present did not see anyone removed, and the three students collecting data for the Crimson Reading Web site also said they did not witness the police escorting anyone from the floor...
...tense afternoon at the venerable 125-year-old bookstore comes two days after the Coop reaffirmed a policy discouraging students from copying down book identification numbers. Students are able to go online and use those numbers, known as ISBNs, to find better deals for textbooks...
Ronald K. Anguas ’08, one of the elected student representatives on the Coop Board of Directors, declined to comment on the situation. I call on all of our student representatives to act to reverse the Coop’s policy against taking notes...
Harvard has reason to be proud of an organization such as the Coop, begun by students in 1882 that has remained specifically tailored to the Harvard and MIT communities. But if unreasonable policies and astronomical costs are the price we pay (pun unintended), the time has come for students to find a new and better option...