Word: coops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following is the first of a two part feature on the Coop's investigation of structural changes in the election procedures. Part II, a discussion of policy changes, will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
GETTING kicked in the ass can be a healthy experience. It keeps you on your toes. In the case of the Harvard Cooperative Society, that jolt came last fall in the nearly successful attempt to elect an alternate slate to the Coop's board of directors. Since October, the Coop management, while twisting its head around to see what all the kicking was about, has discovered that the back of its own neck needs a bath...
Such a critical self-examination of the Coop's rule not only as an efficient cooperative, run for the benefit of its members, but also as a store with a responsibility to a larger community might have come about anyway. Yet the catalysis of the alternate slate's drive last October has speeded up and expanded the process. The alternate slate's challenge has become the Coop...
Although the bid for a "Coop Coup" fell short because it failed to draw a quorum of current Coop members to the annual meeting on October 23, the fact that a thousand members turned out to vote has had a positive effect on the directors. Milton P. Brown '40, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing and current Coop president, sees a definite cause-and-effect relationship between the "yeasting" the took place last fall and the new awareness of the board...
...Holcomb, a 40-year-old Florida businessman suspected of having undue influence over Webster, was deported, vigorously protesting his innocence. The Rev. Freeman Goodge, pastor of the Anguilla Baptist Church, was questioned about alleged connections with the Mafia. His home was searched, he reported. "They went through the chicken coop, even searched my wife's underwear and went through a new Bible leaf by leaf...