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Food and money may be the most tangible attractions of a cooperative, but other reasons also draw people to the Jordans and hold them there. Residents find life in a co-op more relaxed, less pressured and less status-oriented than in other Harvard dorm situations...
...Co-op living doesn't agree with some who have tried it. A Winthrop House sophomore who began freshman year at Jordan W found the co-op too isolated and undisciplined...
...Quad Houses--which provide maid service and maintenance as well as House activities--the cooperatives are self-contained in their day-to-day management, and the residents find themselves interacting very little with the Houses as they come to appreciate and prefer the more intimate environment of the co-op...
...Dudley co-op and the Jordans are as different from each other as they both are from the Houses--the three Jordans have distinct "personalities" too--and the differences are reflected in the way each group views the other. From the more-detached perspective of the Dudley co-op, the Jordans are hardly distinguishable from the Quad Houses...
...Radcliffe co-op members are just living in a Harvard dorm and cooking their own food. Anyone can do that with a hot plate in his room, scoffed a senior who has lived in 3 Sac since his freshman year. And one Jordan a resident had a similarly scornful attitude towards Dudley residents: "All they do down there is watch TV and drink beer...