Word: coops
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...Viswanathan’s book, now on sale at Harvard Bookstore and the Coop, is called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” It is about an over-achieving Indian girl in her senior year of high school, whose lifelong goal to attend Harvard is derailed when the Dean of Admissions finds out she has no friends and doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite Opal’s impeccable resumé, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college...
Last fall, the Dean’s Office picked up the tab for coursepacks for eight visiting Tulane students. It seems that the College now understands what we have known all along: The price of coursepacks has spiraled out of control. Allan Powell, general manager at the Coop, says that Harvard undergraduates have spent over $700,000 on coursepacks this year at the Coop alone. But don’t blame the distributors for high prices: After the Coop’s rebate, the profit margin on coursepacks is negligible. Coursepacks are expensive because the copyright royalties for articles quickly...
...online resources that the College has already paid for, according to UC members. The students would then be able to forgo buying the reading in a printed coursepack and thus avoid paying the copyright fee a second time. The Ec 10 sourcebook, they said, costs $60 at the Harvard Coop, but all 30 of the readings can be accessed online for no charge.Administrators, though, cautioned that many readings are not available through online resources. They agreed with the UC members, however, that a widespread effort to increase awareness and train teachers to use electronic resources is needed...
Entire TV series, if deemed worthy, will be collected into tiny discs, or perhaps microscopic cylinders. You will purchase them from locations like the Coop. Then, hundreds of hours later, you will have watched one of the great tele-epics. It will be seen as a complete work, not as a disparate set of episodes and incidents...
...said he has been approached before about business ventures and now he knows “which questions to ask.” But for the immediate future, though, he joked that he’ll be taking advantage of his Harvard experience, complete with a trip to the COOP. Timmerman laughed, “Do they carry XXXL tall?” —Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard...