Word: co-op
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...Co-op is part of Dudley House, a community made up of both students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and undergraduates living either in the Co-op or off-campus. The Co-op buildings are owned by Harvard and are technically classified as on-campus, though they are certainly removed from the rest of the Houses...
...Dudley Co-op, which celebrated its 50th birthday on Saturday with a reunion open to all its alumni, has been revised, painted over, and tweaked by its residents over the years. But since its inception as a cheaper alternative to the upperclass Houses, it has maintained a fiercely independent, tight-knit, and free-wheeling nature that has provided a valuable replacement for traditional House life for some students...
...Dudley Co-op was founded in 1958, nearly 30 years after the creation of the House system, as a way for financially-strapped students to defray their costs of living. It has inhabited the same two buildings throughout its entire lifetime—the one on Sacramento St., where the kitchen, dining room, and common spaces are located, and another a stone’s throw away at 1705 Mass...
...first set of residents, all men, did their own cleaning and maintenance but hired Radcliffe women to cook dinner for $10 a night. In the fall of 1966, James G. Maslach ’69 instituted the practice that Co-opers would prepare their own dinners in order to save money, a custom that lives on today. The Co-op began housing women by the early...
...Former Co-President of the Co-op Ronald E. Stiskin ’85-’86 recalled one contentious community meeting between the carnivores and the vegetarians who had “moral scruples” about allowing their money to go to the purchase of meat...