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...sense of community is clearest in the events that surround cooking the dinner. Co-op residents must fend for themselves for breakfast and lunch, but dinner is a communal affair. Although all the co-ops are equipped with large common rooms complete with fireplaces and in some cases TV, the central gathering place for the residents is the kitchen, where co-opers begin drifting...
...learn to cook amazing meals, but more than that you develop a sense of community [through the chores]. It's like a family here--you really get to know the other co-op residents and they form your support network," says Browning, adding, "Besides, if you were living in a house, you'd spend that time hanging out with your friends anyway. Cooking dinner with someone is just another way of hanging out. In fact, around here you have to guard against hanging out too much...
...while co-op residents enjoy many advantages, such as guaranteed single rooms and less expensive board fees, co-op living, they say, is not for everyone...
Students perform day-to-day jobs such as cooking dinner, washing dishes, cleaning the stove and baking bread. They are required to do a certain amount of work based on a point system which varies from co-op to co-op. Each student must sign up on a chart for approximately 20 points' worth of work during a two week period. For example, making dinner once and cleaning up twice would be worth 20 points, Jennifer Eddy '85 explains...
These students paid full board to the University, taking their meals at their House dining hall and not becoming a full-fledged member of the co-op. Complaining that this practice of assigning overflow students to the co-ops destroyed the sense of community, residents asked for changes in this policy...