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...take a look at the books I need at the Coop, write down the prices, and search online when I get back to my dorm to see if the used book at the Coop beats Amazon, Half.com or Crimsonreading.org. I’ve done this for four semesters now, and nobody has bothered me about...
Until now. I was standing in front of the books for my Social Studies junior tutorial, seeing what books they had used, which were only new, and what they were charging, when a Coop employee informed me of a new policy: Apparently I’m not allowed to take notes...
When questioned, he admitted that they instituted the policy because students were finding that books were cheaper elsewhere, and consequently ordered the books online. The Coop was losing money. I insisted that was our right, that the Coop can’t have a monopoly, and that this practice was effectively infringing upon our rights as consumers in a capitalist nation to yield the benefits of competition. I said it was illegal. He demurred...
...while perhaps the policy isn’t in fact illegal—the Coop as a private business has a right to refuse service to me—it certainly flies in the face of what the Coop should stand for as an integral member of our community...
Every year the prices at the Coop get more ridiculous, and students fight back more vigorously, but until now, that fight was a fair one (and that’s not even counting coursepacks). We’ve all been in situations where the same book is priced differently in the textbook section as it is in the actual bookstore. We’ve all had friends that had to pay $50 for a coursepack no thicker than a quarter of an inch. And frankly, we are tired...