Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coop should make every effort to find, train and keep, "key staff members of the textbook department...
...Coop's chief textbook buyer needed more assistance...
...conduct of Harvard police and other officials at last May 2's antiapartheid demonstration. But not all of its investigations have covered topics as weighty. In the past, the COI--which for most of the '80s has been littleknown and even less used--took on criticisms of the Coop's textbook-buying procedures, charges of monopoly levelled against Harvard Student Agencies, and allegations that an English professor gave unfair advantages to students who attended an Adams House review section. Those stories...
Cooperation with the Coop: In 1971, a professor named Herbert Bloch wrote to the COI that he was dissatisfied with how the Coop was handling its textbook ordering. "Because there is no established mechanism at Harvard for handling such complaints, the Commission undertook to investigate the matter itself," says the COI's report on the incident. After several meetings with Coop directors, it made several recommendations to improve faculty-Coop relationships, two of which it sought to implement...
...found several problems with the Coop, and the investigation revealed several interesting facts about the Coop's textbook buying policies. In particular, the report reveals that the Coop's textbook department was operating at a 6 percent annual loss, and that it covered those losses from operations elsewhere in the store...