Word: ops
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Stewart wrote in a February Crimson op-ed that extended hours at the MAC "rank high" on her agenda. At a March meeting of the council, members passed a resolution calling for longer hours and improved weight equipment...
...pinkness assumed, Co-op community offers open arms, as well as a comfortably mellow living environment. Upstairs in 1705 Mass. Ave one finds the "Lounge," an opium den-style lounge christened by an initial misspelling. Nothing like blue lights, Oriental rugs and the right music to set the mood. Amidst rumbles of reggae, folk and rap, the self-proclaimed "official music of the Co-op" is not the Dead, but pure funk. The Lounge also has its own band, whose members happen to be away for the semester. Several of the rooms house guitars and other instruments, and a variety...
That home-like feeling is probably the Co-op's number-one advantage. As Ana Morrel-Samuels '00 remarked wryly, "there are no people in uniforms running around and wiping up." She comments also that "it gets rid of a lot of the social fluff that goes on in Houses and can make you feel really lonely." The small kitchen table is certainly a far cry from the melee of house dining halls, which few residents seem to miss. For the most part, they consider themselves dissatisfied with Harvard in one way or another, feeling like the administration focuses...
Ordinary House-dwellers seem to have only a limited conception of what the Dudley Co-op is really like. When asked his opinion of the Unofficial Guide's description of his home as a possible "den of militant lesbians" or "drugged-out long-haired Red subversives," Marcus Wohlsen '98 simply shrugs, "It's mostly indicative of how different the ethos here is than the typical Harvard ethos--a certain lack of subtlety and sensitivity that shows how out of touch Harvard is with anything vaguely counter-cultural...
That may be so, but for those who are in touch, the Dudley Co-op is the place to be. For a mere $5,200 a year, room, board and a built-in community are for the taking. Extra benefits for members include Friday Happy Hours, the yearly lingerie study session in Lamont, and even their own "COOP." A film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone...