Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Were you just about to pay your fall tuition and your Coop bill? Stop...
Once again, control of the Harvard Cooperative Society has been passed down the line intact. The insurgent slate of directors proposed by Sheldon Dietz '41 was rejected without a vote when only 135 participating members, far fewer than the 1691 needed for a quorum, showed up at the Coop's annual meeting last night...
After announcing that the new directors would be selected by the stock-holders next week, Coop president Stanley F. Teele read letters from all six of "Mr. Dietz's purported nominees" asking that their names be withdrawn from nomination. He also noted that the nominating papers for the men had been examined by counsel and judged invalid because non-participating members had signed the petition. The crowd gathered in Harvard Hall hissed violently...
Warming up to the spirit of the meeting, students began asking specific questions about the Coop's pricing policy. Morrill announced that "the Coop will not be undersold..." After the laughter died down, he continued, "...to its knowledge." He supported this statement by commenting that although the Coop does not employ a force of comparison shoppers, any substantial complaint would result in an immediate reduction in prices...
...representing your relatively faithful opposition," Dietz began, "I would respectfully wish to know if there are any limitations on my speaking." Informed that there were none, Dietz turned to his audience and thundered, "In that case this will be a filibuster!" Students cheered; officers and directors of the Coop blanched noticeably...