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Star, Enquirer point cameras
at Madonna's daughter
By Hae-Jin Kim
For the Daily
With October celebrating National
Co-op Month, if the Inter-Cooperative
Council has its way, the terms "guff,"
"picker-mint" and "tres chez" will
become a part of your everyday vocab-
ulary. Yet, to people living in the
Student Housing Cooperatives, such
lingo is not only frequently used, it has
become integrated into part of the spe-
cial language used in communication
between co-op members.
How the co-op known as Joint House
derived its name remains questionable.
Joint - could it possibly be an indica-
tion of the so-called special activities
rumored to have occurred within the
house's history? Its members, however;
attempt to appear convincing as they
claim that it is because the house, in real-
ity, is two houses joined together in the
center by a newly constructed hallway,
often endearingly referred to by its mem-
bers as "The Ghetto."
JENNIFER BRADLEY-SWIFT/I
Engineering graduate student Mike Hernandez and engineering senior Adrienne
Johnson prepare dinner Monday night at Luther House.
Each cooperative has its own distinc-
tive personality reflective of its mem-
bers, as in the case of Joint House which
is also reputed to have large parties.
Another co-op, Stevens House, is popu-
lar for its studying atmosphere, whereas
members of the Gregory House voted to
have their house substance-free. The
knock-stomping Nakamuras ... well,
enough said,
The Nakamura House is one of the 18
group houses in the centrally organized
nonprofit Inter-Cooperative Council,
which is located on 337 E. William St.
This organization is recognized by the
IRS as non profit
and protected Ce-opInfo
under state law.
With a $2 million ~ What: Inter-Coc
annual budget, the Council Office
ICC is able to offer
scholarships to stu- V Where: 337 E.
dents having diffi-
culty with their V Hours: Monday,
dues. Bradford and Friday, 10 a.r
Karrer, president Tuesday and Thuri
of the ICC, p.m.; and Saturda
stressed these
scholarships Phone:662-4
when he said, Campus Coop H
"Fundamental Luther Buel
about co-ops is that Eugene V. De b
it's a group of peo- V/Black Elk Coo
ple coming togeth- ~ Karl D. Gregor
er to meet a com- ~ Joint House C
mon need they V Corretta Scott
couldn't meet oth- V Muriel Lester
erwise." V Benajamin Lin
The ICC is . Michigan Hou
involved with V Minnie's Coop
University JohnNakamur
Housing. A five- V Georgia O'Ke
year retreat is in ~ Harold Osterw
progress at which V Robert Owen(
the ICC's board Renaissance C
members, together V Ruths' Coope
with the presidents V AK Stevens C
of the co-ops, gath- V Sojourner Tru
er on Sundays. VStefan Vail C
Currently, the
members of the ICC are working on an
exercise called "vision building" in which
they create long-term goals, or visions.
They are also rewriting the ICC's
mission statement. The statement reads,
"We the members of the ICC shall work
together using cooperative principles to
provide affordable, high-quality hous-
ing for all students. We shall strive for
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an open, diverse and empowered mem-
bership, positive social change and
expansion of both the cooperative and
the cooperative movement."
Student housing cooperatives house
around 5,000 students on 50 or so col-
lege campuses throughout the nation.
The North American Students of
Cooperation - a national organization
for student co-ops with education as
their main purpose - is based in our
own Ann Arbor.
The co-ops on campus are not solely
restricted to University students and
aren't even University-affiliated,
although one is
rmation required to be a stu-
dent to live in a co-
perative op. Many students
from Washtenaw
Community College
Villiam and Eastern
Michigan University
Wednesday live on campus
.-5 p.m.; together with
day 12 p.m.-6 University students.
12 p.m-3 p.m. The co-ops on the
University, which
.4 are all coed, are
sprawled across the
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Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES - As media fren-
zies go, this one ranks at the top.
Madonna giving birth to a baby girl at
Good Samaritan Hospital on Monday
drew 11 trucks with pop-up satellite
towers, plus other camera crews,
numerous still photographers and
reporters. They waited for hours with-
out a sighting of anyone more famous
than Dr. Paul Fleiss, father of convict-
ed Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss,
who announced the birth and said he
would be the baby's pediatrician.
As night came, the crews who didn't
give up sat around on lawn chairs and
watched Monday Night Football on the
video monitors in their trucks.
The shot of Madonna and child is
currently the Holy Grail of celebrity
photographers. Amid rumors that
Madonna will not release an official
picture of little Lourdes Maria Ciccone
Leon for mass consumption, the media
is relying on stealth measures to get the
shot the world is waiting for.
And how much might that shot be
worth'
Said Scott Downie of Celebrity
Photo: "It's worth about $150 if 25 pho-
tographers get the picture. If she wants
to ruin it for everyone, she could just
come Out and pose."
And if one lucky person got a stun-
ning, exclusive portrait?
"The top is provably 5250,000. If
they get the birth, then the sky's the
limit," Downie said.
Giles Harrison, a free-lance
video photographer, staked out
the hospital early Monday with
his H i-8 camera. He even tried
to exit the elevator on the
eighth floor, reportedly
where Madonna w\as giving
hbirth. "It was like Fort'
Knox." Harrison said.
" of this job is luck.
Skill has very little to do
with ii," he added.
Madonna's choice ofy
Good Samaritan Hospital
took many media types by
surprise. Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center seemed the
obvious choice, with its renowned
maternity facilities and celebrity
accommodations.
But Good Samaritan Hospital is no
slouch when it comes to birthing facil-
ities; the hospital has a prenatal center
that can handle births from midwife-
assisted deliveries to high-risk situa-
tions. Its labor-delivery-recovery
rooms - more like suites - offer a
homey environment, complete with
hardwood floors, CD players, TVs and
VCRs.
Madonna didn't go into this unpre-
pared; supposedly she worked with a
birthing instructor who touts the Bradley
method of natural childbirth, which
emphasizes deep breathing and working
with the process of labor. Dr. Margaret
Bates, an L.A. board-certified obstetri-
cian-gynecologist on the hospital staff.
brought little Lourdes into the world.
As Madonna
the media interest will not ebb.
The National Enquirer already has
some 15 people working on the story.
"It's a big frenzy," said Enquirer
Executive Editor David Perel, "in the
class of a John Kennedy, Jr. wedding.
We'll stay on it until we get the first baby
picture, and we're going to devote our
considerable resources toward that end. I
think for this baby story, the interest
(from the public) is surging, because of
who she is, her reputation, her past, the
circumstances around (the baby), turns it
into a fascinating story."
No recent celebrity birth comes close,
Perel said. "If Lisa Marie Presley and
Michael Jackson had had a child,
maybe."
Phil Bunton, editor in chief of the
Star, said the magazine has been track-
ing Madonna's movements "for about
the last month," and has about five pho-
tographers staking out the new mom.
"The big dilemma," he said, "is that
we don't know when she's going to
leave or how she's going to leave." In.
fact, no one knows whether she has left
the hospital.
"With the baby pictures, if you're not
able to see the baby's face, the photo is
worth a lot less,"Bunton said. "If you can
see the baby's face and a beaming
Madonna. then it would be worth a lot
more."
Bunton said that despite the intense
media madness, Madonna giving birth
ranks just below John E Kennedy, Jr.'s
recent wedding; "I think Madonna's
popularity probably peaked about two
years ago! he said. "But, babies are
babies"
Over at People magazine,
Madonna plus baby equals a full
cover: Madonna minus baby equals
an inset picture on the coy 'r.
Deputy Los Angeles
bureau chief Todd
Gokl who has been on
the Madonna beat for
10 years. said he under-
stands why the mater-
nal girl is suddenly
publicity shy.
"I think she has
some serious and justi-
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Perhaps the most
unique aspect of
living in a co-op is
the incorporation of
the idea of true
e m p o w e r m e nt.
Without a landlord
to enforce rules and
make profits, the
co-op does more
than simply house
students: It is
owned, made up of
:end exists for the
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Madonna and Carlos Leon, fat
fied concerns about privacy
"with that incident last yea:
stalker. I think it'll be a wh
she takes the baby into the p
when she does, she'll be pr
ful. I'm sure she'll have ton
rity around her, trying to
photographers. I think that's
be the most difficult aspect
(as a mother). She's going tc
hands full shielding her
paparazzi who are dying fot
ture."
How long does the magazi
track this story?
"We're going to be doi
research into breast-feeding
training," he joked. "No, real
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