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Browsing the Coop’s top floor yesterday, Siddhant S. Singh ’11 sighed while looking at the price tag on a multi-variable calculus textbook...
...from midfield just two minutes later. The set piece was lofted into the box where an LMU attacker headed the ball down to Steffen Canty, who poked in the winning goal. “They were able to capitalize on some of their set pieces, and we paid the price for not concentrating,” Kerr said. Later, with just over 10 minutes to play, freshmen Jaren LoGreca and Alex Chi worked the ball down the right side and into the middle for Akpan, who tapped it in for the score. But the tally did little more than make...
...making students sound like spoiled brats. Indeed, the Coop’s markup on course books is noticeable if not obscene: an abbreviated visit to the textbook bazaar will sufficiently validate many of the complaints. The discrepancy between publishers’ list and the Coop’s retail prices may often call into question at least the business sense, if not the integrity, of the bookstore’s proprietors. If nearly everyone acknowledges the price-gouging, why would any student shop there—and, therefore, how could the Coop make any profit...
...There is no shame in thrift—and a well-informed consumer will shop around and compare the wares and prices of various vendors. But some students’ indignation at the very thought of paying per semester, at most, a couple hundred dollars over the list price of books seems oddly disproportionate. Many students are indeed on financial aid, and very few have unlimited budgets, but, in terms of the total cost of a Harvard education, the cost of books alone appears quite paltry. Strangely, one never hears nearly as much bitterness over the obscene growth rate...
This is not the only controversial change made at the pub recently. At the start of this semester, the price of a pint of beer increased from $2.00 to $3.25, making it no longer the cheapest beer in Cambridge...