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...Dudley Co-op has had trouble cooperating this summer due to a food fight over the presence of meat in the largely vegetarian housing community...
Students in the 28 member co-op have a spectrum of opinions on the degree to which animal products should be tolerated, with some open to serving meat and others objecting for philosophical, health or hygienic reasons, said David B. Charbonneau, a tutor in the house who is a graduate student in astronomy...
...disagreement is also between students who are living there temporarily for the summer, who tend to be in favor of meat, and those who live there all year, who mostly wish the co-op to remain vegetarian, Charbonneau said...
Ordinary House-dwellers seem to have only a limited conception of what the Dudley Co-op is really like. When asked his opinion of the Unofficial Guide's description of his home as a possible "den of militant lesbians" or "drugged-out long-haired Red subversives," Marcus Wohlsen '98 simply shrugs, "It's mostly indicative of how different the ethos here is than the typical Harvard ethos--a certain lack of subtlety and sensitivity that shows how out of touch Harvard is with anything vaguely counter-cultural...
That may be so, but for those who are in touch, the Dudley Co-op is the place to be. For a mere $5,200 a year, room, board and a built-in community are for the taking. Extra benefits for members include Friday Happy Hours, the yearly lingerie study session in Lamont, and even their own "COOP." A film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone...