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Twenty per cent of Coop shoplifters are Harvard students, according to detailed Coop records. A security agent at the Coop said yesterday that 22 of last month's 90 arrests for shoplifting at the store were Harvard students...
Many of the stores in the Harvard area have resorted to expensive security systems to deter the mounting losses. The Coop has a network of plainclothes agents throughout the store. Serendipity and The Discount Book Seller both have detector systems though which their clientele must pass as they leave...
...August Co. has installed a $4000 system with a television screen and camera that monitors the back aisles. "I would-be ecstatic if I only had $4000 losses in a year." The store catches one shoplifter per week, he added...
...smaller stores, however, can not afford the sophisticated equipment. Chris Kotelly, at Nini's Corner, said the store loses approximately $300 a year, most of it during the fall and winter, but we only have mirrors and our own surveillance...
College Knowledge suckers well-meaning parents easily parted from their money. Its vast store of information, most valuable to students with little access to files on fellowships or aid, make parts of it useful. Edelhart's deliberately traditional attitude makes much of the book too trite to be helpful. It is contrived and vacuous instead. A market for this type of book still exists. But until something better than College Knowledge is published, the Unofficial Guide will have to suffice...