Is that a pencil in your pocket or are you just trying to rip off the Harvard Coop?
By adamg - Wed, 09/19/2007 - 2:56pm.
Walk into the Coop with a notebook and pen and you could wind up getting kicked out. Seems the Coop considers book prices "intellectual property" and takes exception to people spotted taking down prices to see if they can get a better deal elsewhere, such as on this site:
... Coop President Jerry P. Murphy '73 said that while there is no Coop policy against individual students copying down book information, "we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes." ...
One Harvard student claims he was escorted out after being seen writing price info on six books.
Via MetaBoston.
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Meanwhile, at the Yale
Meanwhile, at the Yale Medical Bookstore, students blatantly say to other shoppers "oh, I have that one! Want to buy it used?" No more than a dirty look is given by the employees...
New Harvard Barbarism
Is it me or is Harvard U responsible for some of the most offensive behavior lately? There kind of little things, but point to a certain low, mildly philistine mindset that I find difficult to read. I would include in that list the destruction of the Aalto reading lab, and the determination by Harvard to destroy one of the last remaining early 19th C farmhouses by neglecting it until it rots to the ground--passive aggressive and embarrassing. Now they are kicking students out for comparing prices? It is a pattern of stupidity that someone needs to explain.
The Harvard Coop is not owned by Harvard University
Its corporate structure is a cooperative owned by all of its members. Barnes & Noble currently manage it.
If you have to ask ...
If you have to ask ...