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...horror movie à la Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The $464.50 compendium of readings and articles for Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam’s Government 90qa, Community in America class is very real and currently available on the shelves of the Harvard Coop bookstore...
Most disturbingly, the problem of overpriced coursepacks is widespread. Harvard’s Digital Printing Services lists nine classes with offerings of more than $100 each, while at least a half dozen other packs from the Coop exceed this threshold as well; the readings price tag for Women Gender and Sexuality 1003, Theories of Sexuality, for example, is more than $300. Professors need to do a better job of factoring in coursepack costs when they select readings for their courses. Otherwise, students are faced with the unattractive dilemma of skipping expensive but worthwhile classes, or illegally reproducing coursepacks in defiance...
Amazingly, simple ignorance on the part of professors can be blamed for some of the prices. Many simply submit lists of readings to the Coop or Digital Print Services, which, in turn, deal with acquiring the appropriate copyrights, and pay little regard to the bill to be passed on to students. According to an undergraduate this semester, one professor claimed to be “shocked” and surprised by the high price of a coursepack in response to a complaint about the matter. But this reaction occurred after the term had already started when nothing could be done...
...local copy shops without regard for copyright law. According to student accounts, in one course an undergraduate photocopied a coursepack on reserve at Lamont library for every other member of the class, and not a single one was sold through the usual copyright-abiding means. In another account, Coop employees openly suggested that undergraduates illegally reproduce the Government 90qa coursepack to avo mid its nearly $500 cost...
...Coop and pick up a copy of Catastrophe. But on the way, follow Posner’s risk-reducing advice: strap on a bicycle helmet, buckle up your safety belt, look both ways before you cross the street…and watch out for particle physicists on the loose...