Students rushing to pack their belongings by this Sunday's move-out date have made the Undergraduate Council's box sale a quick success.
To reduce what many Council members--including President Paul A. Gusmorino '02--felt were exorbitant prices for large cardboard boxes and packing tape at Square businesses, the Council this year established a pilot program to sell those items directly to students at reduced rates.
Such efforts to save students money were a part of Gusmorino's platform in his successful bid for the Council's presidency.
"I've always felt gypped at the end of the year when I go to CVS and pay $4 for a piece of cardboard," Gusmorino said.
The council charged $2 per box and $1 per roll of tape.
The boxes sold out in less than a day.
Four hundred boxes were sold Monday night in four Houses--Lowell, Winthrop, Mather and Pforzheimer--and 350 were sold yesterday out of the council's office in the basement of Holworthy Hall.
For the UC Boxes program, the Council's Campus Life Committee (CLC) and its services chair, Robert M. Gee '02, who ran the program, purchased 750 boxes to resell to students at virtually the same bulk-rate price the Council paid for the boxes, plus shipping.
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