Word: coops
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According to Allan E. Powell, the general manager of the Harvard Coop, the high cost of coursepacks is primarily due to expensive copyright and licensing fees. He said the store's 15-20 percent markup on coursepacks is significantly lower than that of textbooks, particularly when the Coop's annual rebate is taken into account...
...January’s end, with the official inauguration still a week away, the pursuit of textbook price reform was already well underway—and under fire. A group of UC representatives, dispatched to the Harvard Coop to collect ISBN information for the database of a UC-endorsed, student-run book-savings Web site, were forced to leave by store employees...
Just as harmful as the generalization that all homeless people are dishonest or deserving of their situations is the generalization that all homeless people are “sleeping outside of the COOP, asking for money outside of CVS, or hanging out close the train stop,” as Seegars characterizes them in his column. While it is important to recognize and empathize with the people we walk past, who seem to be there every day alone with cups outstretched on the street, students should also recognize that there is a large population of homeless people...
...Adams recalls. He vividly remembers the day in early June of 1967 when the Beatles released their seminal album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”“I remember waiting in a long line in front of the Coop for the record store to open,” he says. “We all hurried back to our dorms to play it then to parse through it like it was the Rosetta Stone.” Adams readily admits to being influenced by the music of his generation, saying...
...It’s no secret to Harvard students that there are homeless people in the Square. They can be seen sleeping outside of the COOP, asking for money outside of CVS, or hanging out close the train stop. Walking past homeless people has become a regular part of our Harvard lives...