The deals are not a steal, but they are better than new and the proceeds go to a place. A few pennies may even end up in New Orleans. Course packs are expensive. They were once [if not still] printed by Union labor – members of what was once the Graphic Communication International Union. It is now the Graphic Communication Conference of the Teamsters
which is in turn part of the Change to Win Coalition. But if my most favoritist reactionary string theorist, Lumidek claims that course packs are expensive because of the Unions, he will be wrong! Most of the cost is licensing that intervention in the ‘free market’ that the right-wingers love so much – copyrights. | Richard Stallman appeared briefly at the Wikipedia conference at Harvard Law this summer. Given the significant differences between copyrights and patents, he asked whether the concept of intellectual property has any ontological basis. It is, he asserts, merely a tool to legitimize business practices that benefit the few at the expense of the many.

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Today is the last day of the sale.

As you might expect, Harvard labor is also in the picture…

…with Jim from FMO helping out…	…while the folks from HUDS get ready for their day.

Harvard members of Habitat for Humanity sell used course packs in front of the Tanner Fountain. The Science Center appears on the right and Memortial Hall on the left.

Recycling is a virtue in and of itself, but Habitat for Humantity @ Harvard adds a second level by selling used and useful items and applying the proceeds to the construction of low-income housing. The gentleman on the right above went to New Orleans last summer.

*I am grateful to Kim Bruning of J’s scratchpad and Wikipedia Netherlands for reminding me of this phrase.

Actually I don’t know if the folks above are FUP’s. They could be FOP’s or FAP’s. I tried to ask, but they wanted get their stuff and find their rooms. No, I don’t at all take it to be rude. F ? P = First year ? Program. They occur the week before First Year Orientation. So these folks are moving within Harvard.
? = (Urban|Art|Outdoor)

I’m guessing the first aid class in front of Lionel last week was part of FOP.

I did talk to a young man unloading in front of Thayer. He is a FUP. Richard Kelley ‘10 chose Harvard because the financial aid package made it cheaper than anything in his native Schwarzeneggerland. Encouraging. The final verdict on the late Larry Summers’ program requires, of course, a larger sample.