Word: coops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Tuesday, Jarret A. Zafran ’09 was reportedly asked to leave the Harvard Coop after recording the prices of six books required for his social studies junior tutorial. His story is not unique. Other bargain-hunting students have reported similar experiences. Most notably, on Thursday, the Coop called Cambridge police on ISBN-copying students gathering data for CrimsonReading.org, but the police refused to take action...
...They got pretty wise to us and others looking to compare prices on books,” he said, adding that he has been asked twice to leave the Coop textbook floor. “They’ve had a pretty sharp...
Other students, Staff said, have been relying on more high-tech methods to bypass the Coop staff’s methods, such as text-messaging ISBN numbers to themselves, using phones to take photos of the books, or using computers to copy information...
...Coop and pulled out my laptop to look online at books I needed to buy,” Joshua G. Allen ’09 said. “I was planning on buying them at the Coop and returning them later...
Nevertheless, the Coop will always have at least one advantage over its online competitors—convenience...