Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS WEEK MARKS two milestones for the Harvard Cooperative Society. Both should serve to remind Coop officials of its responsibilities to Harvard and MIT students--the Coop's principal shareholders--and especially to its own employees...
...When the Coop begins its second century tomorrow, it celebrates a tradition of communal service, one that began in 1882 when Harvard students united to beat the high prices of textbooks and firewood. But ironically, the Coop of 1982 seems more a monopoly than a cooperative. Its vast expansion into Boston markets, in which few students participate, has helped deprive students of the membership control that was once a hallmark of the Coop...
Indeed, the very ideal of the cooperative seems to have disappeared, submerged by a Coop management more intent on expansion than cooperation with its student members. Last year's progressive Coop Group slate ran on--and won-student directorships on a platform of higher employee wages and benefits, better working conditions, and more equitable pricing policies. Once elected, many worked hard for those goals, and did manage to extract some data from Coop management. But that...
...student directors increasingly realized the near-impossibility of accomplishing real change in a tightfisted, multimillion dollar company. And if the active and well-intentioned Coop Group could effect no change, it's hard to see how any student "members" could...
Waters, who said friends had to persuade him to join the Coop in the first place, described himself as basically a lucky person, saying that over the years he has frequently won raffles and other small contexts. "I just hope I do as well in the housing lottery," he added...