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...love the idea of the Co-op. Not the place where we buy our books, but the place where 30 or so students live as a community: cooking together, cleaning together, and sharing a happy progressive experience. The atmosphere is warm and fuzzy. The people are nice and friendly. The cost is cheaper than living in the dorms. There’s only one problem. No meat...
Technically, you are allowed to have and cook meat at Dudley Co-op, but according to their website, “food at the Co-op is almost entirely vegetarian.” If I lived there, I would starve. I’m one of those people who eats meat at every lunch and dinner. In my opinion, and here I borrow a turn of phrase from University President Lawrence H. Summers, vegetarianism amounts to anti-Semitism in effect if not in intent, for as an ideology, it frowns upon those who love pastrami...
Watch out, Grey Goose. There's a co-op of 900 Minnesota farmers aiming to win drinkers over to their top-shelf vodka. Made in conjunction with the originators of Pete's Wicked Ale, which helped launch the U.S.'s craft-beer phenomenon in the 1990s, Shakers vodka is quickly gaining notice...
...contradictions don’t end there. Xuan is a Phi Beta Kappa Biochemical Sciences concentrator currently applying to med school. But he is also a resident—and current co-president—of the progressive Dudley Co-Op, a strict vegetarian and a “novice” member of the avant-garde. He’s a self-described private person, and yet according to his friends, you often can’t get the kid to shut...
...Xuan’s achievements, CASV is not what he’s most proud of. It’s not all the music either. It’s not even Phi Beta Kappa. For Xuan, his biggest accomplishment is “being a part of the Co-Op community. It’s the only place at Harvard where I felt like part of something much bigger.” Spoken like a true man of contradictions...