Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many people have asked you, in line at the Coop or at the drink machine in the dining hall...
This is when shopping period sours. Professors want to start teaching courses and stop holding open houses. Students want and need to know what readings are expected and to be able to purchase them. The Coop wants to provide the correct number of books at the best cost to avoid the Internet competition and the angry, frustrated students in line worked up about the bitter end of shopping freedom and the need to commit...
...Coop, to its credit, has already pressed the Faculty for more information and has seen results in predicting the correct number of books to order. "It's been getting better," Murphy said. "The more communication we have with the Faculty and more we know of the history of their enrollment, the better...
...registration, then, will help all involved: students will have seen the courses and hopefully the syllabi before shopping week, The Coop will have more accurately gauged course enrollments, and professors--after committing earlier to what courses they will offer--will reap benefits in a less undecided audience during shopping week...
John B. Fox, Jr. '59 and Julia G. Fox have more Harvard ties than the Coop. So many, that it's not surprising their careers have centered on the College...