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After a tense fall shopping period that featured a standoff involving HUPD, the relationship between CrimsonReading.org and The Harvard Coop seems to have warmed in time for the spring semester. Employees of the textbook-price-comparison Web site are continuing to copy the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) of texts for Harvard courses, and they say that unlike last semester, the Coop has turned a blind eye to the practice. “We told the Coop we’re not interested in a fight like last semester,” said CrimsonReading co-founder and Undergraduate Council...
...another example of Twilight Zone refereeing, Brown's Mike Stuart gets called for roughing on a textbook clean hit along the left boards...
...early October, I finally took the plunge. Instead of heading directly up the escalator to the third floor of the Coop for an overpriced textbook or to the second floor for dorm furniture—as I had always done in the past—I lingered by the entrance. For the first time, I dug through a pile of crimson hoodies, each labeled with “HARVARD” across its front, in search of a size small. At colleges across the country, hordes of students advertise their school pride on a daily basis: Cal sweatpants litter...
...enough classrooms: second-graders huddle in a ragged tent in the courtyard, where a torn strip of khaki canvas hangs between rusting metal struts, blocking many of the girls' view of the blackboard. The fierce desert wind howls through the holes and threatens to tear the class's one textbook from the students' hands as they pass it around for reading lessons. There is no playground or running water. The toilet, a pit latrine located at the far corner of the school compound, serves 1,500 students. Only two of the 23 female teachers have graduated from high school. Half...
...rest of the funds will come from an endowment left to the chemistry department by Mary Fieser, an organic chemistry textbook author and researcher at Harvard, who died...