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...place.”Reiss also noted the similarity between “The Simpsons” and Harvard. “The “Simpsons” sticks its name on lots of tacky items,” he said. “Harvard has the Coop and the Kennedy School.” Speaking to The Crimson after the speech, Reiss revealed that there was a lot more to these jokes than may have been obvious. “Harvard is the most distant and chilly education system imaginable,” he said. He had dreamed...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a motion to make all of their future published academic works, the product of all that time not spent in office hours, available within the Harvard community. Plus, the lack of costs in accessing these publications means no more undercover trips to the COOP in search of hidden ISBN numbers...
University President Drew G. Faust presented her newest book, “This Republic of Suffering,” to a packed Harvard Coop last night, drawing over 100 listeners as she detailed the work about the “grim” subject of death and the “emerging inhumanity” of the nation’s battlefields during the American Civil...
...choices when buying textbooks.” Rising textbook prices have remained a lightning rod of criticism for undergraduates. Last year, students from the Crimson Reading Web site—which allows students to compare textbook prices online for selected courses—had a run-in with the Coop when staff members called the police on them for refusing to leave while copying down ISBN numbers. Crimson Reading Director Jon T. Staff V ’10 welcomed the committee’s actions, saying they were a positive step towards reducing textbook prices. “I think...
After a tense fall shopping period that featured a standoff involving HUPD, the relationship between CrimsonReading.org and The Harvard Coop seems to have warmed in time for the spring semester. Employees of the textbook-price-comparison Web site are continuing to copy the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) of texts for Harvard courses, and they say that unlike last semester, the Coop has turned a blind eye to the practice. “We told the Coop we’re not interested in a fight like last semester,” said CrimsonReading co-founder and Undergraduate Council...