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Students will have new textbook options by fall: Matchio.com will facilitate book exchange

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Textbook bills bite into every college student’s budget.

But the $5.5 billion industry is about to get some local competition.

Matchio.com, the brainchild of senior Tatenda Furusa and his Springboard business competition team, will launch by the end of the week. It’s something like Craigslist in that it allows people to list goods to sell and buy online.
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Students will have new textbook options by fall: Bradley bookstore offering textbook rentals

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Beginning next fall, students may have another option when seeking out their course textbooks.

The Bradley Bookstore, run by Barnes and Noble, is considering renting out 20 to 30 percent of their book supply next year, said bookstore manager Paul Kroenke.

The books would be rented out at 45 percent of the new book price, and students would be allowed to highlight and take notes in it like they can with purchased books.
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ForeWarn activated in another campus crime

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A student walking through Campustown Tuesday night was nearly the victim of an armed robbery.

The man was crossing the parking lot in front of the former Save-a-Lot store when a maroon SUV pulled up next to him. 

The men inside ordered him to empty his pockets, but he refused and walked away.
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