Marketplace Articles

Hershey Foods mired in gooey legal mess

By Joe Minoru M. Sasanuma / Heights Staff
The proposed sale of Hershey Foods Co., the maker of Hershey's Kisses and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, is turning into a surprisingly complex matter. Since the company put itself up for sale in late July, the Hershey community and school as well as the state's attorney general and gubernatorial race have made the saga into a soap opera.

Store sells ethnic goods

By Jessica Rosen / Heights Staff
In an age where sweat shops and slave labor dominate the means of trade, it is difficult, if not impossible, to save the cultural goods of the Third World countries. International agencies have developed outreach programs designed to deliver the amenities of the so-called First World to the traditional villages, but few have thought to enrich the lives of the developed with those of the developing. Ten Thousand Villages, a project of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), challenges this very notion by providing fair income to Third World artisans by selling their handicrafts in North America.

New wave of game consoles compete

By Jeremy Raelin / Heights Senior Staff
The new wave of gaming consoles have been on the scene long enough to firmly establish themselves. Although the competition between game systems has traditionally been a dynamic struggle, the recent pack has developed a fierce struggle for supremacy over the new frontier of gaming, the Internet. To the victor will go the spoils of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry.

Marché a stressful and unappetizing experience

By Elizabeth Paulson / Heights Senior Staff
If you want small portions of bad food brought to you in an obnoxious atmosphere, go somewhere else. On the other hand, if you want small portions of bad food that you have to walk around and get yourself, Marché is the place for you.

Strictly Business

Tyco CEO steals the show

By Joe Minoru M. Sasanuma / Heights Staff
It's incredible to see how low corporate executives can go. Investors thought Enron and Worldcom were bad enough, but recent charges made against former Tyco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer L. Dennis Kozlowski only show that one can never go too low.

New Palms earn high marks

By Ryan Brown / Heights Staff
Although the retail industry posted below average sales during the back-to-school season in August, returning students brought back a number of new products aimed at technology-savvy undergraduates. These products often come with a steep price tag, but companies claim that they are worth the price. Among these companies is Palm Inc., which has been marketing the Palm m130 handheld of their new m100 series to a younger, college bound crowd.

In Brief

By Jason Vanderburgh / Heights Senior Staff
Students throw bottles and cans into recycling containers on campus, into cardboard boxes in their dorms, and into large green bins in the hallways. Sometimes it's a hassle to lug a large container of recycables in the search of bins that may or may not be full, but Boston College students make this extra effort to help out the environment.