Word: coops
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...product of his search was Redline Textbooks, a new company Yagan started with seven fellow Currier House residents that takes advantage of substantial disparities in textbook prices at the Harvard Coop as compared to those at other retailers and distributors. The prices set by publishers often vary from country to country, and the new company exploits this fact by buying textbooks required in popular Harvard courses, mostly from Western Europe, and reselling them on campus...
...What’s remarkable is that even with buying retail in Western Europe and shipping overseas, we’re able to offer $20-50 off the Coop,” said Yagan, whose older brother, Sam A. Yagan ’99, founded SparkNotes.com...
...part of the week that’s unscripted,” said Gould-Wartofsky, who is also a Crimson editor. A mosaic of malcontents swirled around him: Jews Against Occupation; Young Feminists Mobilizing; Books Not Bombs. Gould-Wartofsky’s own logo was more subtle: a Harvard Coop insignia, protruding from his back pocket in the form of a plastic...
...five-hour long march through Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue—estimates ranged from 200,000 to half a million—it was hard to put a number on the Harvard faces in the crowd, most of whom wore neither Harvard t-shirts nor Coop bags. Student organizers said that up to 75 undergraduates participated...
...remarkable and paradoxical institution,” comes with a long history. As he does every year, Summers offered the first-years comfort by relating his own experiences navigating his first semester as president at Harvard in 2001. He told an anecdote about a clerk refusing him a Harvard Coop number because he lacked a Harvard ID, and quoted Harry Truman’s salient remarks about his time in the United States Senate: “The first six months I couldn’t figure out why I was there. For the rest of the time, I wondered...