Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...card hung alone on the shelf, almost funny if it wasn't so sad. As most Harvard students would agree, it is hard to teach a class once you have died. The Coop, though, simply going through the course guide, had seen the class and put up a tag. "no order...
...Coop is the best place to be during shopping period. More than professors, more than CUE Guide numbers, it is the books that matter. Every shopping period I devote an hour to wandering the aisles, taking down course numbers with interesting books and then seeing if they fit into my schedule. Notebook in hand, I start in African-American studies and end in Social Analysis, trying not to miss this semester's sleeper hit. Last week, I came away with something more important...
...midst of the history section, I saw it: a perforated Coop book card, enclosed in its yellow plastic square, velcroed to the bookshelf: "Hist. 1155. Twersky. no order rec'vd" was its curt message, as it lorded over an empty shelf, never to be filled with books for a class that would not be offered...
...ignored the card the first time I saw it, not sure exactly what to do. But the more I thought about it, the more my responsibility became clear. I cornered a busy Coop staffer and told them that the class had been canceled and that they should take down the card. I didn't need to burden him with the whole story, of unfortunate illness and talent lost; my question was short and so was his answer. He thanked me for the information and told me to take the card up to the desk...
...instead of spontaneous outpourings of agape in the spiritual centers of our new community--the cafes of Barker, Loker and the Coop--I find only double lattes bubbling forth, not human understanding, and the solitary and studious, not the concerned and informed. The goings on of administrators often dominate the pages of this newspaper and raise the ire of our nascent activist community, as the administrators appear slow to adopt the changes many feel are necessary to unite the disaffected factions of the campus. Despite our pleadings, we have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there...