Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop was founded in 1882 by Harvard students wary of Square merchants who gouged prices for textbooks and firewood. Firewood is no longer sold at the Coop, but students are still complaining about the high prices of texts...
Faculty members say the Coop does a good job handling requests for the big Core courses. But the store often fails to deliver enough books for some classes, and regularly has trouble getting books for smaller classes...
...They have not established a relationship with the professors," says Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of government. "The Coop doesn't believe our estimates of the number of books needed, and they shave [the estimates] when they order...
...Lowell House Master William H. Bossert, a Coop stockholder, defends the store's textbook department...
Students must understand that textbooks are only part of the business, he says. He gently reminds students that they constitute only part of the Coop's membership...