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...COOP, and it's not Dudley House. No, it's that much-caricatured and myth-surrounded place 15 minutes from the Yard--the Dudley Co-op (and its associate, the Jordan Co-op). The Unoffical Guide to Harvard's description warrants some fact-checking. Can it really be fairly compared to a "hippie commune" not cleaned "since the last time Jerry Garcia came through?" Or is it merely a unique, homey alternative to Harvard housing...
...pinkness assumed, Co-op community offers open arms, as well as a comfortably mellow living environment. Upstairs in 1705 Mass. Ave one finds the "Lounge," an opium den-style lounge christened by an initial misspelling. Nothing like blue lights, Oriental rugs and the right music to set the mood. Amidst rumbles of reggae, folk and rap, the self-proclaimed "official music of the Co-op" is not the Dead, but pure funk. The Lounge also has its own band, whose members happen to be away for the semester. Several of the rooms house guitars and other instruments, and a variety...
That home-like feeling is probably the Co-op's number-one advantage. As Ana Morrel-Samuels '00 remarked wryly, "there are no people in uniforms running around and wiping up." She comments also that "it gets rid of a lot of the social fluff that goes on in Houses and can make you feel really lonely." The small kitchen table is certainly a far cry from the melee of house dining halls, which few residents seem to miss. For the most part, they consider themselves dissatisfied with Harvard in one way or another, feeling like the administration focuses...
...full-time student at Northeastern University, David handles a full courseload along with the internship at KISS 108, an eight hour per week commitment. After taking advantage of Northeastern's co-op program for several semesters at various corporations, he called up KISS, was invited for an interview and was offered the job on the spot. "I love it here," grins David, "Everyone is really cool, my supervisor Skip Kelly is really helpful and is always available to answer my questions. The DJ's, too, are really cool, very nice, and they're always respectful. I look forward to coming...
Lately, some co-op boards have apparently rejected ostensibly qualified buyers--even buyers they wouldn't mind sharing the elevator with every morning--simply to add to the cachet of the building. In other words, a board member who paid $100,000 for an apartment in an A+ building during the down market of the early '70s may reject people willing to pay $15 million for an apartment two floors away in the hope that such rejection will increase the value of his own apartment to $16 million...