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So if anyone had a chance to look at Marquette news briefs from yesterday (January 14) you would have found out that the University has completed its property purchase, including the buildings at 1202 and 1222 W. Wells St, which is right across the street from Al McGuire Center and from Haggerty’s Pub. Finally something will be going in there. I’m hoping a few franchises. It was always a pain to walk from Carpenter to Marquette Gyros, or take the bus to Chipotle or God forbid we could actually get a legit grocery store? (when I say legit, I mean one with more variety in fruits and vegetables than in beer) Something closer would be great. I’ll have to suggest this, but how…?

However what went unmentioned is the fact that Sweeney’s Book Store is in one of the properties that was purchased. And now one of the biggest suspicions on Marquette campus is true: Marquette University will not be renewing Sweeney’s lease which expires in September 2008, effectively bouncing the long term competition of the BookMarq. Isn’t it great to know that come fall Marquette will have cornered the market on campus books?

From my personal standpoint this is obviously terrible. I haven’t been to BookMarq since I was a freshman and didn’t realize there was competition on campus. Sweeney’s has nearly always been cheaper and the service has always been better and I haven’t purchased books at any place since. Yeah I know people can still go online for books and I encourage every at MU to try that but, sometimes given shipping costs Sweeney’s can still compete.

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