Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eighteen Harvard students have been apprehended by the Coop for shop-lifting, Dean Watson said last night. "This is much much higher than one year ago this time," said James T. Morrill, Coop General Manager. In October and November, Coop authorities have apprehended a total of 51 persons who have confessed to shop-lifting...
...Coop has suffered an inventory loss of more than one-third of a million dollars during the last academic year, an increase of 44 per cent over the previous year. Sales personnel and administrators yesterday indicated that the primary cause of the large shortage was a sharp increase in shop-lifting by employees and shoppers...
...Coop authorities generally do not inform Cambridge police about students from Harvard, Radcliffe, or M.I.T. caught shop-lifting. "These students receive preferential treatment from the Coop," Watson said. "The Coop feels that Harvard students are not criminals and we agree. They do not deserve prison sentences. Most of them do not understand the seriousness of the stealing...
...Shop-lifting has been a major problem ever since the Coop opened," said David D. Duval, manager of the Coop's men's furnishings department. "Our security just is not built up as it should be. We can't touch a person unless two employees see the theft. This just isn't right. We need more prosecutions...
...Coop's administrators said they did not plan to increase their security arrangements. "We'll wait until next June's inventory to make sure this wasn't a fluke," said Morrill...