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...this helped move Congress last year to allow public-housing residents to buy their own homes. Kenilworth tenants will have five years, beginning in 1990, to buy co-op shares representing home ownership. Amid talk of similar undertakings in a dozen other places, Gray modestly accounted for Kenilworth's remarkable achievement: "This happens when people want change...
...Co-op residents are not on Harvard's meal plan, so all food is prepared by students. Other chores, such as helping the cook, cleaning the dining room, the kitchen, and living areas, and buying food, are allocated on a point system. House residents must accumulate a certain number of points each semester in order to carry their weight...
...Harvard paid a cook to prepare food; later, "we paid girls from the Radcliffe co-ops or from Lesley college to cook," said Erickson, a three-year resident of the co-op. At one point, after then-President Nathan M. Pusey's Swedish cook became dissatisfied with her job, she was conviced to cook for the co-op. "She cooked here for a year or two," said another former resident. "The food was good, but we had Swedish meatballs...
When first established, the co-op was considered on-campus housing. Officially, only men were allowed to live there, although at least one woman would climb the fire escape every night to visit her boyfriend. In keeping with the policy of the rest of the college, coats and ties were required at dinner. "We kept a rack of tattered coats and ties by the door," said Jonathan G. Dickinson '65-'67, "and people would just fling on a coat and [loop on] a tie on their way to dinner...
Leftist politics have pervaded the co-op's history. A letter from an alumnus unable to attend the reunion recalled that members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were constantly trying to recruit co-op residents. John Crooks, master during the early '70s, said he had visited the co-op on the day of Walt Disney's death and found a celebration. Co-op residents explained that Disney had been a fascist. Today, practically every room has its own copy of the Village Voice...