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...area where students would certainly benefit from pre-registration is in terms of Coop book prices...
According to Evan P. Mooney, department manager of the Coop, many publishers charge book stores a fixed percentage of the cost of the books they return. These restocking fees, he says, can be as much as five percent...
...Coop has a return rate of nearly 30 percent, much of which can be attributed to shopping period, Mooney says...
...would be impossible to read by it or to work at a computer by it. So, industrious as we Harvard students are, we have collectively moved to the best alternative, halogens (and no one has died either). The floor lamps (which we urge students not to buy at the Coop) can be purchased at Dickson Bros. and HSA for roughly $20, and they are an invaluable fixture in any dorm room...
Maybe I was a little too fast to jump on the "trash the Coop" bandwagon. I, who once so proudly declared my nonmembership in the Coop, now toy with the idea of joining. Mo Shepard over at Book Tech proclaimed that books are "Five percent of total education cost, and 80 percent of total education." How many classes do I take because of the syllabus, in spite of the professor's droning tone.... I believe. Maybe books are expensive, maybe they could shave off a few dollars here and there, but in the face of copyright lawsuits and the Harvard...