Word: ops
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...textbook Introduction to Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., by Streitwiser, Heathcock and Kasower, sells for $86.50 at the Coop. At the Boston University (B.U.) bookstore, it sell for a significantly lower $77.33, although it is not normally in stock. At the Yale Co-op, it sells...
...read about in The Crimson: far too private. She admits she knows very few people. She spent her time here studying for her Afro-American Studies classes, working in Schlesinger library at Radcliffe, and tutoring kids in Dorchester, but mostly just hanging out in her house, the Dudley Co-op, a cooperative living community offered as an alternative to house life. Instead of doing a million extracurriculars or vying for junior Phi Beta Kappa, Carter excelled at the few things she put her mind to and spent time on what, or rather whom, she cared most about: her friends...
...feels the same way,although she adds, "It seems like it's thesmallest minority here to be from an economicallypoor background. It seems even rarer because a lotof people hide their backgrounds. [Being poor] isnot the thing to be here," Carter says she hadfelt more comfortable in the co-op, where everyonecooks and cleans together and which was founded asa cheaper alternative for students on financialaid...
Like most people, Carter defines her time atHarvard by the things she has chosen to do here.She looks back happily on her time at the Co-op,in the Afro-Am department, working at Schlesingerand participating in the tutoring program inDorchester. "The Co-op made it possible to stay atHarvard until the end," she says. It most closeslyresembled the warm nurturing environment in whichshe had grown...
Sasha R. Wizansky '95, who has lived in theco-op with Tracey almost as long as I have, saysit took her a long time to get to know Carter, butthat the gradual process has "made it richer.She's a deep, genuine person." Michael W.Echenberg '95, who got to know Carter last spring,says he admires her commitment to her friends."She talks about hanging out as an activity untoitself, about actively hanging out." A fellow Coopresident, Emily Fenster '94, says of Carter:"She's just so refreshing because she stands foreverything that's the opposite of Harvard. Sheputs people above...