BREAKING NEWS -- Loyola Student Government stops endorsement of SwapSimple under pressure from bookstore
Last week, the President of the Loyola University Student Government informed us that they could no longer endorse SwapSimple, due to pressures from their campus bookstore.
The Loyola Student Government reported that they have several programs in place with the college bookstore, including scholarship and fund raising programs, and that if they continued to recommend SwapSimple to their student body, these programs would be put in jeopardy or cancelled all together.
Although privately the Student Government intends on supporting SwapSimple, publicly they must yield to the pressures of the bookstore and stop spreading word of SwapSimple to faculty and students.
We are saddened by this recent turn of events, but would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank them for all their support in the past, and wish them good luck in the future.
posted by Elliot E. Hirsch @ 1:34 AM
3 Comments:
At Sep 28, 2005 2:16:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Ahh yes... Loyola Bookstore...
Barns and Noble wins again!
At Oct 17, 2005 11:50:00 PM,
Elliot E. Hirsch said…
Yes...this was a sad event - but in all honesty, we knew it was coming. We knew we could only stay below the radar for so long.
What was so interesting about this was how blatant the bookstore was in saying they would cut the student government off. It's amazing how secure the bookstore is in their monopoly of the student market, how strong their ties are to school administrators and professors, and how closely, in general, they guard their prey.
At Aug 16, 2006 9:12:00 AM,
Lance said…
In the music industry, it's called "payola," in which radio stations - television is probably involved now - got paid to play a musician's music - or not. Loyola's recent action is nothing less than blackmail. It's hard to know exactly what's going on, but it obviously involves lots of money that the university wants from students - as if it isn't getting enough. This action should be enough to get every student to support Swap Simple. I wouldn't be surprised if Loyola's bullying isn't illegal; the student government certainly should post the email address of the state's attorney general and urge students to flood the office with complaints. We can smell this scam all the way to the Rocky Mountains.
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