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this community oriented
section of the paper.
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mail in your tuition depo-
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you get a sudden urge to
scribble a2 on the front of
the envelope-don't.
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City food co-ops: Beating
the supermarket blues

By GEORGE LOBSENZ
Beset by beastly, bloated food
bills? Fed up with the shriveled-
up, freeze-dried, super-concen-
trated, who-knows-what fruits
and vegetables found at the gro-
cery store giants?
If this sounds like an all too
familiar refrain, take heart.
There is an antidote-a trip to
one of Ann Arbor's food co-ops.
Offering a wide array of whole,
natural foods, the co-ops are a
real alternative to local rip-off
groceries - an alternative that
can both tickle your impoverish-
ed palate and pacify your plun-
dered pocketbook.
THE PEOPLE'S Food Co-op,
which operates a branch at 722
Packard and another at 212 N.
Fourth St., boasts a variety of


fresh fruits and vegetables,
cheese, graims, oils, yogurt,
bread, medicinal and cooking
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The co-op is supervised by a
skeletal staff who oversees the
work of volunteers. The volun-
teers are co-op members who
work a minimum of one hour
each week in return for a 17.7
per cent discount on all pur-
chases.
Working in conjunction with
the People's Food Co-op, the
Wildflower Community Bakery
provides baked goods both di-
rectly to the co-ops and for re-
tail sale. The bakery features
seven kinds of bread and assort-
ed confectionery goodies, made
possible largely through volun-
teer labor. Again, there is a
compensation for volunteers in
the form of a small discount
and a free loaf of bread every
time you pitch in.
THE CITY'S Itemized Fruit
and Veggie Co-op is something
of a variation on the co-op
theme. It has no central store
or clearing house, but functions,
instead on a more de-centralized
basis.
The co-op has divided the city
into several regions, each re-
gion having a communicator
who goes to weekly organiza-
tional meetings.
On S a t u r d a y mornings, a'
group of co-op representatives
travels to Detroit's Eastern
Market to buy the nee d e d !
amount of fruits and veggies.
The produce is then taken back
to a central d v id i ng house
where members from each re-
See FOOD, Page 8

Exit landlords,
enter ICCcoops
By ELAINE FLETCHER
There are those of us who value our independence above a
else. It includes the freedom to eat dinner at 4 a.m. and break
fast at noon - a ritual the dorms fail to observe. It include
the freedom to partake in orgies so wild, so soused with smi
dope and booze that even the most tolerant minded housemothe
would flee or, in one biblical glance backward, tourn to sal
on the spot.
Yet we also like company, preferably friendships tried an
tested by the tensions of group living. So we exit as early e
possible from the dorms, avoid apartments and the Greek system
altogether, and commit ourselves to a cooperative house - for
better or worse, in sickness and health .. .
BASICALLY, a cooperative house can be defined as any situa-
tion where the inhabitants believe in eating, partying and carry-
ing out the garbage together. There are two kinds in Ann Arbor
those houses that are owned by landlords and those that- aren't.
The differences are simple but crucial. In the first, you can
choose your housemates and probably grab a bedroom all by
yourself. Yet while your friends and you may cooperate very well,
the landlord probably won't. At best, while you all work hard
at communal living you can bet your every rent check that
the landlord is making a bigger profit off of you every year.
The'logical solution is to get rid of the landlord, and that's
just what the Intercooperative Council (ICC) has done. It consists
of 24 local houses which are collectively owned and operated by
its members, all current residents.
"People here like the feeling of running a house completely
by temselves," says a Lester House member. "And they relate
differently to each other because of it. It's more down to earth.
It's working together instead of secret handshakes - a different
level on which you're fraternal."
THE FACT that each ICC member contributes several hours
towards maintenance, housekeeping and cooking each week keeps
the price of room and board pleasingly low - an average $125
a month in most co-ops last winter semester.
See CO-OP, Page 4

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Get lost: Slipping away to

the parks of

Ann Arbor

By
All Ann
really. And

JIM TOBIN
Arbor is a park,
all one need to do

to make sure of that is venture
out on the first warm February
day after the steepest snow
drifts have melted. Students and
other fools are all taken in;
bodies are strewn t on every
stray patch of lawn, motor-
cycles cruise, and convertible
tops come down at the first hint
of sin.
When spring, genuine spring,
first shows up around finals the
populace goes daft. A class on
the east side of Mason Hall is
a travesty, for the Diag is a
distracting carnival of spring-
feverish people, barking dogs,
and some very serious frisbee
playing. Half the campus takes
a seat on the Diag lawn, and
the rest seek solace elsewhere
on the city's greens. From the
Hill to the Fishbowl to the lush
garden of Martha Cook, there
are too many bathing-suited
bodies dotting area parks. But
knowing of a few secluded spots
to sneak off to is good for the
sanity.
THE GREAT, great grand-
daddy of them all, of course, is
the Nichols Arboretum, sprawl-
ing from Geddes Road to the
Huron River to the Huron River

Parkway. Ah, who hath loved'
in Ann Arbor who hath not
loved in the Arboretum? Old
man Nichols left the wooded,
rolling acres to the University
early in the century, but only
upon the condition that it be
left unspoiled and undeveloped;
the city's romantics have been
grateful ever since.
One can approach the Arb as
either a lark or an adventure.
The first way is by far the
most popular. Take a cafeteria
tray, ride down an Arboretum
slope some wild and wooley win-
ter night-you will not be alone.
Amorous pairs and assorted
solitary voyageurs do the park
injustice by taking in only the
gullies and groves near the en-
trances. There is much more.
Just try the banks of the Huron
for a serene afternoon. Or by
fighting a little underbrush you
will soon find yourself surround-
ed by a vast new wilderness, un-
touched and unsoiled by the
human shoe. The Everglades
it's not but a little effort will
carry one past the frisbee play-
ers to quieter pastures.
THERE IS a Burns Park in
everyone's childhood. Remem-
ber the ball field where Little
Leaguers whined and parents
cheered, where all the sixth-

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graders hung out on a Friday
night before dinner time? In
Ann Arbor, it's called Burns. If
you're a one-time suburbanite,
and feel a little homesick come
September, give Burns a 1*y
some clear night. Tucked u: a
well-to-do residential areasouth
of the campus which is called,
appropriately enough, B u r n s
Park, the park has a ball field,
a lot of grass and, most appeal-
ing of all, a steep little hillock
with a picnic table plopped on
top-an ideal spot for a win-
some rendezvous under the
stars.
The popular wisdom has it
that Burns is largely populated
by professors' kids who lounge
around comparing their parents'
degrees, but others aren't de-
nied the park's delight. Take
Lincoln south from Hill a few
blocks; you can't miss it.
But let's leave all the tran-
quility some hot afternoon and
take off to Delhi Park out Hu-
ron River Drive, northwest., of
the city. This Saturday-after-
noon-at-the-beach without t h e
beach, has all the beer and
bellies to match that one can
stomach. A lot of softball and
picnics-perhaps too much and
too many-but if one chooses
the right time Delhi can be a
pleasure. Nestled along the Hu-
ron, the park makes an ideal
goal for a medium-range bike
ride, particularly in the early
morning. Huron River Drive,
despite occasional traffic, is one
of the finest bike trails in town,
and the river at Delhi is swift
and inviting.
ANN ARBOR has a couple of
parks which the Department of
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CORREC TION
On page 5 in the Student Life/Academics
section of this paper an ad indicates that
Follett's store hours on Saturday are 9:00-
4:00. THIS IS INCORRECT. THE STORE
HOURS ON SATURDAY WILL BE 9:00-4:30.

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