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...holiday shopping period begins, students on a budget need to remember that the Harvard shopping period is only around the corner--and with it the next round of textbook purchases, with books that can place an even heavier weight on wallets than on knapsacks...
This semester, students taking Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," paid $80 for a new copy of their textbook. In Chemistry 5, "Introduction to Principles of Chemistry," one book costs $93.50 new. And in Chemistry 17, a "value pack" including a textbook and study guide sells...
Chair of the Undergraduate Council Student Affairs Committee John Paul Rollert '00, says the primary rants he hears from students on their textbook costs blame the Coop, where they buy most of their books, for overpricing...
...professors seeking other options without sending their students to the Kennedy School or MIT, one possibility is the Coop. The Coop farms its sourcebook production out to Booktech, an independent producer, and then marks up the books 20 percent beyond Booktech's rates, according to Coop Textbook Manager Patrick Campbell...
...lesson was about to unfold, all right--a textbook study of the fickle results of corporate welfare. Seaboard was unable to attract enough workers from Albert Lea to run the plant. Many former Farmstead employees had already left the area in search of work. More than 100 had retired. Still others declined to work for Seaboard wages--$4,500 a year less than the plant's 1983 wage, and no vacation the first year...