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...kitchen in Jordan J--one of the Radcliffe co-ops--is the late-afternoon nucleus of the house, where residents gather around the newspaper-strewn table for conversation and last-minute directions from the evening's chef. There is a feeling of low-key closeness as the 23 co-op members drift in to the airy dining room to share a meal which conspicuously lacks the plastic trays and cafeteria lines faced by most of Harvard's population each evening...
...institutional ivy of Harvard. But once you cross the worn porch to knock on the wooden double doors, you leave the restrained neighborhood surroundings behind and enter a lively, self-contained community of forty Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. While not quite off-campus, students at the Dudley co-op are as far away from Harvard dorm life as it is possible to be while still paying rent to the President and Fellows...
...singles, although the newest residents share large doubles. Narrow staircases lead to art-gallery corridors where a nameless artist has adorned the walls with large-as-life figures. The quieter house at 1705 has no common rooms, and the constantly peopled first floor of "3 Sac" is the co-op's center...
...cost of living in the Dudley co-op is one thing that attracts residents. Rent is half that of other Harvard housing, and sharing food costs with 39 others reduces expenses to half that of Harvard board...
...Dudley co-op residents enjoy the advantages of off-campus living--cheapness, varied and vegetarian food, non-academic surroundings and a togetherness rarely felt in Harvard dining halls--while avoiding the feeling of isolation from a student community that off-campus residents often experience. After sharing the responsibilities of maintaining a large household, the members have developed an insulation from some tensions of the larger Harvard community, an attitude of amused tolerance toward the way most Harvard students choose to live, and an attachment to their own small group which at the outset partially excludes all outsiders...